MEASURED STUDY · 11 NOVEMBER 2026

Which travel
block AI crawlers?

Booking platforms and travel publishers. 86 domains measured; 15 block at least one of the 30 tracked AI crawlers.

15of 86 travel block at least one AI crawler · median access 100%

The AI crawlers these sites block most

GPTBot is blocked most often here, by 8 of 86 sites. What blocking each one means is in the AI crawler directory.

User-agentOperatorPurposeSites blocking
GPTBotOpenAImodel training8 of 86
CCBotCommon Crawltraining dataset7 of 86
AmazonbotAmazonmodel training6 of 86
Applebot-ExtendedAppleApple Intelligence control6 of 86
BytespiderByteDancemodel training6 of 86
PetalBotHuaweisearch indexing6 of 86
ClaudeBotAnthropicmodel training5 of 86
cohere-aiCoheremodel training5 of 86

Every domain in this category

Sorted by the share of tracked AI crawlers permitted, lowest first. Each report shows all 30 verdicts and the robots.txt rule behind them.

DomainAccessAllowedBlockedNot listed
travelandleisure.com27%8220
cntraveler.com30%9210
tourismthailand.org57%17130
tripadvisor.com60%18120
getyourguide.com67%20100
airbnb.com83%2550
alaskaair.com93%2820
disney.com93%2820
flightradar24.com93%2820
atlasobscura.com97%2910
flightaware.com97%2910
klook.com97%2910
lonelyplanet.com97%2910
omio.com97%2910
skyscanner.net97%2910
aa.com100%3000
accor.com100%0030
afar.com100%3000
agoda.com100%3000
amtrak.com100%3000
australia.com100%3000
avis.com100%3000
bahn.de100%3000
bolt.eu100%3000
booking.com100%3000
britishairways.com100%0030
carnival.com100%3000
couchsurfing.com100%3000
delta.com100%3000
disneyland.disney.go.com100%3000
enterprise.com100%3000
europcar.com100%3000
eurostar.com100%3000
expedia.com100%3000
flixbus.com100%3000
france.fr100%3000
frommers.com100%3000
germany.travel100%3000
grab.com100%3000
hertz.com100%3000
hilton.com100%3000
holland.com100%3000
hostelworld.com100%3000
hotwire.com100%3000
ireland.com100%3000
irishrail.ie100%3000
italia.it100%3000
japan.travel100%3000
jetblue.com100%3000
kayak.com100%3000
lufthansa.com100%3000
lyft.com100%3000
marriott.com100%3000
nationalrail.co.uk100%3000
ncl.com100%3000
nomadicmatt.com100%3000
nps.gov100%3000
orbitz.com100%3000
priceline.com100%3000
renfe.com100%0030
ricksteves.com100%3000
rome2rio.com100%3000
roughguides.com100%3000
royalcaribbean.com100%3000
ryanair.com100%0030
seat61.com100%3000
sixt.com100%3000
southwest.com100%3000
thepointsguy.com100%3000
thetrainline.com100%3000
tiqets.com100%3000
trainline.com100%3000
travelocity.com100%3000
trenitalia.com100%0030
trivago.com100%3000
turo.com100%3000
uber.com100%3000
universalorlando.com100%3000
virginatlantic.com100%3000
visitlondon.com100%3000
visitnorway.com100%3000
visitscotland.com100%3000
visitsingapore.com100%3000
visittheusa.com100%3000
vrbo.com100%3000
wyndhamhotels.com100%3000

Method and caveats are described on the full study page: one robots.txt fetch per domain, resolved against 30 published AI user-agents, reported as the voluntary policy it is.

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