Glossary: AI SEO, AI agents and hospitality tech
Plain-English definitions of the terms behind AI search and AI bookings: GEO, AEO, share of voice, entities, AI crawlers, booking engines, MCP and more.
All 80 glossary
A to Z
- What are Core Web Vitals, and do they matter for AI agents?
- What are Google AI Overviews?
- What are Google free booking links for hotels?
- What does closed to arrival (CTA) mean?
- What is a booking engine?
- What is a booking widget?
- What is a CAPTCHA, and why does it stop AI agents?
- What is a central reservation system (CRS)?
- What is a channel manager?
- What is a Chrome origin trial?
- What is a direct booking?
- What is a Google Business Profile?
- What is a headless browser?
- What is a hotel booking deep link?
- What is a hotel occupancy tax?
- What is a knowledge panel?
- What is a minimum length of stay (MLOS)?
- What is a personal AI agent?
- What is a property management system (PMS)?
- What is a rate plan?
- What is a resort fee?
- What is a user agent (and how do AI agents identify themselves)?
- What is a virtual card in AI agent payments?
- What is a visitor levy (tourist tax) in the UK?
- What is a zero-click search?
- What is agentic commerce?
- What is AI referral traffic?
- What is AI search?
- What is AI sentiment?
- What is AI share of voice?
- What is AI visibility?
- What is an agent card?
- What is an agentic browser?
- What is an AI agent?
- What is an AI citation?
- What is an AI crawler?
- What is an entity (in AI search)?
- What is an iframe (in hotel booking)?
- What is an MCP server?
- What is an online travel agency (OTA)?
- What is an XML sitemap?
- What is answer engine optimisation (AEO)?
- What is ARI (availability, rates and inventory)?
- What is bot management?
- What is ChatGPT agent?
- What is ChatGPT search?
- What is ClaudeBot?
- What is computer use (in AI agents)?
- What is content negotiation (Markdown for AI agents)?
- What is drip pricing?
- What is E-E-A-T?
- What is generative engine optimisation (GEO)?
- What is Google AI Mode?
- What is Google-Agent?
- What is Google-Extended?
- What is GPTBot?
- What is hotel metasearch?
- What is IndexNow?
- What is llms.txt?
- What is NAP consistency?
- What is OAI-SearchBot?
- What is Perplexity?
- What is prompt injection, and should hotel websites worry?
- What is prompt tracking?
- What is rate parity?
- What is review recency?
- What is robots.txt?
- What is schema.org Hotel markup?
- What is structured data?
- What is the accessibility tree, and why do AI agents read it?
- What is the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)?
- What is the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol?
- What is the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP)?
- What is the best available rate (BAR)?
- What is the local pack?
- What is the look-to-book ratio?
- What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?
- What is the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)?
- What is Web Bot Auth?
- What is WebMCP?