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Do travel websites block AI crawlers?

As of 2026-10-01, 15.4% of the 13 travel websites whose robots.txt we could read block GPTBot, 23.1% block ClaudeBot and 0% block PerplexityBot (all sites: 17%, 16.3%, 12.7%). 1 of 14 publish an llms.txt file.

Block rate by crawler: travel vs all sites

CrawlerOperatorTravelAll sites
ClaudeBotAnthropic23.1%16.3%
Applebot-ExtendedApple23.1%14.3%
GPTBotOpenAI15.4%17%
Google-CloudVertexBotGoogle15.4%7.2%
MistralAI-TrainingMistral15.4%4.7%
OAI-AdsBotOpenAI7.7%4.3%
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic7.7%8.1%
Claude-UserAnthropic7.7%8.3%
Perplexity-UserPerplexity7.7%8.9%
Google-ExtendedGoogle7.7%14%
Google-GeminiNotebookGoogle7.7%4.3%
Google-AgentGoogle7.7%4.5%
Meta-ExternalAgentMeta7.7%14.4%
meta-webindexerMeta7.7%6.3%
meta-externalfetcherMeta7.7%8.7%
meta-externaladsMeta7.7%3.8%
AmazonbotAmazon7.7%13.1%
Amzn-SearchBotAmazon7.7%5.9%
Amzn-UserAmazon7.7%5.5%
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGo7.7%8.1%
MistralAI-UserMistral7.7%8.4%
MistralAI-IndexMistral7.7%4.7%
CCBotCommon Crawl7.7%19.5%
BytespiderByteDance7.7%17.7%
cohere-aiCohere7.7%13.7%
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI0%6.7%
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI0%9.6%
PerplexityBotPerplexity0%12.7%
ApplebotApple0%2.6%

All 14 travel sites in the index

✕ blocked · ◐ partially blocked (some paths) · ✓ allowed · ? robots.txt unreadable. "#" is the position in our popularity-ordered sample.

#SitePolicyGPTBotOAI-SearchChatGPT-UserClaudeBotClaude-SearchPerplexityGoogle-Ext.CCBotllms.txt
114booking.comOpenallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowed–
258tripadvisor.comBlocks some AI searchblockedpartialpartialblockedallowedpartialblockedblocked–
2822gis.comOpenallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowed–
303marriott.comOpenallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowed–
306airbnb.comBlocks training onlyblockedpartialpartialblockedallowedpartialallowedallowed–
320uber.comOpenallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowed–
365ryanair.comNo robots.txtallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowed–
371agoda.comOpenallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowed–
406expedia.comOpenallowedpartialpartialallowedpartialpartialallowedallowedyes
448hilton.comOpenallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowed–
520hotpepper.jpOpenallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowed–
570amap.comBlocks some AI searchpartialpartialpartialblockedblockedpartialpartialpartial–
626jalan.netOpenallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowedallowed–
639navitime.co.jpUnreadableunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknown–

FAQ

Do travel websites block AI crawlers?
As of 2026-10-01, 15.4% of the 13 travel websites whose robots.txt we could read block GPTBot, 23.1% block ClaudeBot and 0% block PerplexityBot (all sites: 17%, 16.3%, 12.7%). 1 of 14 publish an llms.txt file.
Which travel websites block GPTBot?
tripadvisor.com, airbnb.com.

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