Best review sites for travel and recreation businesses in 2026
400 AI answers about travel and recreation businesses cited 29 review sites. Grades.com collects reviews from 14 of them. Answers from the last 90 days (Aug 1 to Oct 30, 2026).
Which review sites matter most for travel and recreation businesses?
By AI citation share, the top review sites for travel and recreation businesses are Tripadvisor (58.0%), Yelp (44.3%) and Expedia (12.5%), out of 400 AI answers about travel and recreation businesses. 7 sites are cited in at least 20 of those answers.
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Share of 400 AI answers about travel and recreation businesses (the last 90 days) that cite each site, ranked. Sites cited in 20 or more answers.
Which review sites does each AI assistant cite for travel and recreation businesses?
ChatGPT cites Tripadvisor most (80% of its answers), Claude cites Tripadvisor most (75% of its answers), Gemini cites Expedia most (10% of its answers) and Perplexity cites Yelp most (86% of its answers). Each chart: the share of that assistant's answers about travel and recreation businesses that cite the site.
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Tripadvisor is the review site AI assistants cite most for travel and recreation businesses: 58.0% of 400 answers, ahead of Yelp (44.3%).
Google Business Profile is where most travel and recreation businesses already are: 100% of the 101 we checked have a profile there, and AI cites it in 10.0% of answers.
Yelp is cited in 44.3% of answers, yet only 13% of the travel and recreation businesses we checked have a profile there.
Yelp is cited in 44.3% of answers, but its rules do not allow asking customers for reviews: claim the profile and reply instead.
Google Business Profile has the biggest audience of these sites: about 1.7B monthly visits (an estimate).
Where do travel and recreation businesses get reviews?
Of the travel and recreation businesses we checked, 100% have a Google Business Profile, 83% have a Facebook profile and 43% have a Tripadvisor profile (n = 101 businesses).
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Share of the travel and recreation businesses we checked with a profile on each site, 0 to 100%. n = businesses checked.
The full ranking
See all 7 sites cited in 20 or more answers, in a table
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AI citation share: the share of the 400 AI answers about travel and recreation businesses that cite the site. Sites cited in fewer than 20 of these answers are left out.Has a profile: travel and recreation businesses we checked with a profile on the site. Collected = Grades.com pulls reviews from this site. Site reach: estimated monthly organic search visits to the site's domain (DataForSEO Labs, Ahrefs Domain Rating, October 2026).
Frequently asked questions
Which review site do AI assistants cite most for travel and recreation businesses?
Tripadvisor is cited in 58.0% of 400 AI answers about travel and recreation businesses, ahead of Yelp (44.3%) and Expedia (12.5%).
Do travel and recreation businesses need Yelp?
Yelp ranks #2 of 7 for travel and recreation businesses: AI assistants cite it in 44.3% of 400 answers about travel and recreation businesses, against 43.4% of all answers. 13% of the travel and recreation businesses we checked have a profile there (n = 101). Grades.com collects Yelp reviews.
Which review sites does Grades.com collect for travel and recreation businesses?
Of the 29 review sites cited in AI answers about travel and recreation businesses, Grades.com collects reviews from 14, among them Tripadvisor, Yelp, Expedia, Booking.com and Google Business Profile.
Which review site is easiest for travel and recreation businesses to get reviews on?
Of the review sites cited for travel and recreation businesses, Tripadvisor is the one cited most (58.0% of AI answers) whose own rules let anyone leave a review, let the business send a direct review link, and allow asking customers for reviews. Yelp does not allow asking.
What is AI citation share?
The share of AI answers that cite a review site. Here it is counted over 400 answers about travel and recreation businesses from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity in the last 90 days: Tripadvisor is cited in 232 of them, a 58.0% share.
The three words this page uses: collected = Grades.com pulls reviews from the site (54 review sites in all); measured = every review site the AI answers cited, across all industries (109 sites); cited for travel and recreation businesses = the measured sites that appeared in at least one of the 400 answers about travel and recreation businesses (29 sites).
Data window: Aug 1 to Oct 30, 2026 (90 days), October 2026 edition, data as of October 30, 2026.
AI citation share: answers citing the site divided by the 400 AI answers about travel and recreation businesses (businesses in the "Travel & Recreation" category of the Grades.com directory), from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. The chart and the table rank the sites cited in 20 or more of these answers. Search-result and help pages on a review site are not counted.
Has a profile: the share of the travel and recreation businesses we checked with a profile on the site (n = businesses checked).
Picks: most cited by AI = highest citation share; easiest to get reviews = the site cited most whose own rules let anyone review, let the business send a direct review link and allow asking (from its guide; never Yelp, which does not allow asking); most replies from businesses = highest share of reviews with a business reply, among travel and recreation businesses, shown with at least 100 reviews checked. A pick the data cannot support is left out.
Start with these three: the sites cited most for travel and recreation businesses that Grades.com collects, one per site Grades.com connects. A site that shows another site's reviews is covered by connecting that site.
Site reach: estimated monthly organic search visits to the site's domain (DataForSEO Labs, Ahrefs Domain Rating, October 2026); an estimate for the whole domain, not a figure published by the site, and the same in every industry.
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