The websites Perplexity's search leans on for travel
Which domains show up when Perplexity runs a live web search to answer questions about where to go, eat and stay.
Across the last 90 days, Perplexity's search pulled 225,374 web results from 16,955 domains while answering TakeScout's tracked travel questions. The most frequent is tripadvisor.com (31,640 results across 124 destinations), followed by expedia.com and opentable.com.
Ranked by how many times each domain appeared in Perplexity's search_results for a tracked
question, over the last 90 days (through Oct 14, 2026). ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
aren't grounded in TakeScout's tracking yet, so this is Perplexity only. How we track this.
- Tripadvisor ↗ 31,640 results
23 domains
- tripadvisor.com · 26,419
- tripadvisor.ca · 3,331
- tripadvisor.es · 346
- tripadvisor.co.uk · 344
- tripadvisor.fr · 301
- tripadvisor.de · 269
- tripadvisor.in · 219
- tripadvisor.com.au · 108
- tripadvisor.jp · 58
- tripadvisor.ie · 40
- tripadvisor.ru · 40
- tripadvisor.co.za · 39
- tripadvisor.com.br · 30
- tripadvisor.co · 19
- tripadvisor.it · 18
- tripadvisor.co.nz · 15
- tripadvisor.nl · 15
- tripadvisor.ch · 11
- tripadvisor.com.mx · 11
- tripadvisor.dk · 3
- tripadvisor.pt · 2
- tripadvisor.at · 1
- tripadvisor.be · 1
- Expedia ↗ 6,365 results
14 domains
- expedia.com · 5,365
- expedia.ca · 824
- expedia.co.uk · 67
- expedia.com.au · 62
- expedia.co.jp · 20
- expedia.fr · 7
- expedia.co.nz · 4
- expedia.de · 4
- expedia.it · 3
- expedia.sa · 3
- expedia.be · 2
- expedia.ie · 2
- expedia.at · 1
- expedia.ch · 1
- OpenTable ↗ 5,854 results
14 domains
- opentable.com · 4,049
- opentable.ca · 1,637
- opentable.co.uk · 59
- opentable.com.au · 55
- opentable.hk · 19
- opentable.ie · 9
- opentable.de · 8
- opentable.it · 6
- opentable.ae · 3
- opentable.nl · 3
- opentable.com.mx · 2
- opentable.sg · 2
- opentable.es · 1
- opentable.fr · 1
- Hotels.com ↗ 5,309 results
- reddit.com ↗ 3,738 results
- michelin.com ↗ 3,567 results
- nps.gov ↗ 2,836 results
- GetYourGuide ↗ 2,525 results
10 domains
- getyourguide.com · 2,453
- getyourguide.de · 26
- getyourguide.es · 26
- getyourguide.it · 5
- getyourguide.pl · 4
- getyourguide.ru · 4
- getyourguide.dk · 3
- getyourguide.se · 2
- getyourguide.jp · 1
- getyourguide.nl · 1
- Travelocity ↗ 2,090 results
2 domains
- travelocity.com · 1,950
- travelocity.ca · 140
- onlyinyourstate.com ↗ 1,698 results
- wanderlog.com ↗ 1,677 results
- Booking.com ↗ 1,613 results
- Kayak ↗ 1,519 results
9 domains
- kayak.com · 1,468
- kayak.de · 18
- kayak.co.uk · 12
- kayak.fr · 10
- kayak.com.au · 5
- kayak.ie · 3
- kayak.com.br · 1
- kayak.es · 1
- kayak.sg · 1
- canada.ca ↗ 1,467 results
- trip.com ↗ 1,409 results
- eater.com ↗ 1,401 results
- worldatlas.com ↗ 1,250 results
- todocanada.ca ↗ 1,171 results
- wikipedia.org ↗ 960 results
- timeout.com ↗ 958 results
- destinationcanada.com ↗ 892 results
- forbestravelguide.com ↗ 798 results
- marriott.com ↗ 774 results
- viator.com ↗ 774 results
- travelmanitoba.com ↗ 754 results
- quebec-cite.com ↗ 699 results
- restaurantji.com ↗ 675 results
- thehotelguru.com ↗ 663 results
- theadventuristmagazine.com ↗ 660 results
- aaa.com ↗ 646 results
- HotelsCombined ↗ 639 results
4 domains
- hotelscombined.com · 611
- hotelscombined.ca · 21
- hotelscombined.com.au · 6
- hotelscombined.in · 1
- theinfatuation.com ↗ 632 results
- lonelyplanet.com ↗ 568 results
- ihg.com ↗ 561 results
- restaurantsforkings.com ↗ 558 results
- familydestinationsguide.com ↗ 553 results
- tourismpei.com ↗ 547 results
- mtl.org ↗ 543 results
- orbitz.com ↗ 507 results
- Trivago ↗ 503 results
8 domains
- trivago.com · 284
- trivago.ca · 201
- trivago.co.uk · 12
- trivago.com.au · 2
- trivago.co.nz · 1
- trivago.hk · 1
- trivago.ie · 1
- trivago.in · 1
Why this is useful
When someone asks Perplexity where to eat in a city, its answer is built from whatever its live search surfaces for that query — effectively an AI-era search results page for travel intent. For a destination marketing team, that's a direct read on which publications, listing sites and blogs are shaping how AI describes their destination, and where a placement or a correction actually moves the needle.
What it is and isn't
These are the pages Perplexity's search retrieved, not the ones it explicitly cited for a specific recommendation — Perplexity's travel answers rarely footnote individual claims. And it's one assistant: the other three don't run a grounded search in TakeScout's pipeline yet, so this isn't a picture of "what all AI trusts."