Exoticca · GEO baseline
How Perplexity Sonar Pro, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and ChatGPT (web search) cite exoticca.com versus 11 direct competitors when real travelers ask about long-haul package tours with flights included. No promotion, no recommendations. Only what the engines actually return.
When a user names Exoticca directly, the engines cite it 63% of the time. When a user asks about long-haul package tours without naming Exoticca, it is cited only 20% of the time. TourRadar and TripMasters dominate that ground.
| Engine | Market | Cited | Of queries | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexity Sonar Pro | EN | 4 | 11 | 36% |
| Perplexity Sonar Pro | ES | 2 | 3 | 67% |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | EN | 4 | 11 | 36% |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | ES | 1 | 3 | 33% |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | EN | 5 | 11 | 45% |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | ES | 0 | 3 | 0% |
| ChatGPT (web search) | EN | 2 | 11 | 18% |
| ChatGPT (web search) | ES | 0 | 3 | 0% |
Branded queries first (where Exoticca is consistently cited), discovery queries after.
Exoticca was cited 18 times across all queries, more than any tracked competitor (TourRadar: 14).
Count of result slots in which each tracked competitor appeared.
| Competitor | Citations |
|---|---|
| TourRadar | 14 |
| TripMasters | 9 |
| Go Ahead Tours | 6 |
| Globus | 4 |
| Gate 1 Travel | 3 |
| Collette | 3 |
| Friendly Planet Travel | 2 |
| GrandVoyage | 2 |
| Goway Travel | 1 |
| Tourlane | 0 |
| smarTours | 0 |
2 tracked competitors (Tourlane and smarTours) received zero citations across the audit. They are tracked because third-party analyses (CB Insights, Similarweb) list them as Exoticca's closest peers.
On the 2 Spanish-language transactional queries audited, zero of the 11 tracked competitors were cited either. The engines responded with generic guidance and named no operator.
Spanish-language AI travel content is structurally thin. This is a category-level data point, not a competitive one.
- · 14 queries written in natural conversational language, matching how users phrase prompts to AI engines (not SEO keyword style).
- · 4 engines: Perplexity Sonar Pro, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and ChatGPT (web search).
- · Each query was run 3 times per engine. A citation counts only if Exoticca was cited in the majority of runs (≥2 of 3). This neutralizes single-run noise.
- · 11 competitors were tracked, selected from CB Insights, Similarweb and Owler peer-set analyses.
- · Audit ID: MBpco40w2axcdCXcyPdb
Tripcite is an independent GEO measurement tool. This audit was generated as an external observation of public AI search behavior. Exoticca was not contacted prior to publication of this report URL.