We are Gourmet Marketing.
Hotel local SEO agency that drives direct bookings.
Case Study: Driving Leads Through Smarter Local Search Strategy
We help hotels capture
local demand and
grow incremental revenue.
Lead visibility on Maps, Hotel Finder, and AI.
Travelers typically begin their search with location-based queries, and these results appear across Google Maps, Google Business Profile, Google Hotel Finder, Bing Places, and AI platforms like Google AI Overviews and Bing Copilot. Without strong local visibility, competing hotels and OTAs capture potential guests ' attention first.
Gourmet Marketing is a leading Local SEO agency for hotels, known for driving direct revenue and steady organic growth. By optimizing your content, schema, citations, reviews, and authority signals, we help search engines and AI models recognize your hotel as the best match for traveler intent.
Core Services
Maximum Visibility Through Profile Optimization
Your Google Business Profile is the core of your hotel’s local search visibility. It is the primary source Google, Bing, and emerging AI platforms use to understand your hotel’s location, amenities, categories, reputation, and overall relevance. As search engines increasingly pull data directly from Google Business Profile and Bing Places, proper optimization is more important than ever. An incomplete, inconsistent, or inactive profile will weaken your visibility across Maps, local rankings, AI recommendations, and even Google Hotel Finder.
We ensure your profile is fully optimized and continuously maintained—not simply set up once and ignored. Every detail is aligned with Google and Bing guidelines as well as our broader SEO strategy, including categories, amenities, photos, descriptions, attributes, posts, and Q&A. We also verify that all information is accurate and consistent across your hotel website, OTAs, and citations. A properly optimized profile strengthens your local authority, enhances AI readability, and directly supports stronger organic performance.
Get seen first in Google Hotel Finder.
When travelers search by destination or hotel category, they are served results through Google Hotel Finder, Google’s dedicated hotel marketplace. Visibility here depends on accurate pricing, availability feeds, OTA parity, amenities, and review signals. If this data is incomplete or inconsistent, your hotel loses placement and competitors or OTAs gain the advantage.
We optimize your Hotel Finder listing so Google clearly understands your category positioning and relevance. By refining amenities, aligning feed and pricing data, and strengthening review signals, we improve your visibility for high-intent keywords and enhance the performance of your metasearch campaigns. This leads to stronger placement in Google’s hotel search results and more qualified travelers booking directly.
Stronger authority for stronger direct results
Local authority is one of the strongest ranking factors for hotels competing in crowded markets. Google looks for trusted signals from reputable websites, including tourism boards, travel publishers, neighborhood guides, event venues, and local organizations. Without these connections, it becomes difficult to rank for competitive non-brand searches or to stand out against nearby hotels and OTAs.
We secure authoritative hospitality-focused backlinks that strengthen your domain authority and improve your visibility across both Maps and organic results. These links establish your hotel as a credible local presence, helping you outperform competitors and bring in more qualified traffic that leads to direct bookings.
Protect your listings, protect your rankings.
Hotels appear across hundreds of directories, data aggregators, and travel platforms, and even small inconsistencies in your name, address, phone number, or business details can weaken your visibility. Google rewards businesses that maintain clean, consistent information across the entire web because consistency signals trust, accuracy, and legitimacy. When your citations are outdated or misaligned, search rankings decline and AI-driven systems lose confidence in your property.
We audit, correct, and standardize every detail of your hotel’s information across major directories, hospitality platforms, and mapping services. This ensures absolute consistency and protects your listings from unauthorized edits that can damage your visibility. A clean, accurate citation profile strengthens your local ranking signals, stabilizes your online presence across search and AI platforms, and ensures travelers always find correct information that leads directly to your booking engine.
Proactive review management that drives real results
Guest reviews directly influence local rankings, Hotel Finder placement, and booking conversion rates. AI systems increasingly interpret review themes such as “walkable location,” “great for families,” “near public transit,” or “close to attractions” to match hotels with specific traveler needs. A strong and consistent review profile helps your hotel rank better for both category-driven and destination-driven searches and builds trust with travelers early in the decision process.
We manage your review strategy end-to-end by increasing review velocity, improving rating averages, and highlighting the attributes guests value most. Our team writes thoughtful, brand-aligned responses for both positive and negative reviews and sends them to you for approval directly via email. This ensures you stay informed while we handle the work. By aligning your reputation with traveler intent and local search signals, we strengthen your visibility and present compelling social proof that leads to more direct bookings.
Content that brings the right guests to you.
Most potential guests do not begin their search with a specific hotel name. They search with intent, looking for hotels that match their needs, preferences, and chosen location. Without optimized local landing pages built around these high-intent queries, your hotel website loses valuable organic visibility and cedes traffic to OTAs and nearby competitors. Strong, strategically crafted content is essential to improving online visibility and supporting every part of your digital marketing strategy.
We create targeted content that positions your hotel for the categories, locations, and travel intents your guests care about most. Through proximity pages, neighborhood guides, category-driven landing pages, and tailored content creation, we meet potential guests at the earliest stages of their planning process. This brings more qualified organic traffic into your booking engine, strengthens your category-level rankings, and increases direct bookings driven by non-brand search demand.
Stand out in AI-driven hotel local search.
AI is changing how travelers discover hotels. Guests increasingly rely on AI Overviews, Bing Copilot, ChatGPT, and voice assistants, which evaluate hotels based on accuracy, consistency, and trust signals. Without strong optimization, competing hotels and OTAs will appear first in these high-intent recommendations.
Gourmet Marketing strengthens the signals AI systems rely on, including citations, reviews, schema, proximity relevance, and entity clarity. As a leading AI-focused Local SEO agency for hotels, we ensure your property is accurately represented across AI platforms, improving visibility in AI-generated recommendations and driving more direct bookings.
AI-Driven Local SEO
Make AI Overviews Work for Your Hotel.
AI-powered search is reshaping how travelers discover hotel business listings. Instead of relying on traditional results, guests are increasingly presented with AI-generated summaries that highlight properties matching their intent. If your content, schema, and entities are not structured for AI interpretation, your hotel will not appear in these high-value recommendation panels.
We optimize your hotel website and local content for Google’s AI Overviews by strengthening entity relationships, enhancing semantic structure, and shaping your content for AI-driven search behavior. This ensures your hotel website is included in AI-curated recommendations, increases your organic hotel visibility, and positions you ahead of competitors in the next generation of search.
Content that helps AI choose your hotel.
Travel planning is rapidly shifting into AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Bing Copilot. These platforms rely on structured, conversational content to understand traveler intent and recommend hotels that match specific needs. As AI becomes a primary discovery tool in the hotel industry, your SEO efforts must adapt to how these systems interpret and surface information.
We optimize and expand your website content with AI-friendly FAQ structures, conversational phrasing, and intent-driven answers that AI platforms can easily understand and reference. This positions your property to appear in AI-generated itineraries, destination guides, and recommendation lists, ensuring your hotel is present at the earliest and most influential stage of the guest decision-making process.
AI-Powered Review and Sentiment Optimization
AI systems evaluate more than just star ratings — they analyze patterns in guest feedback to understand your strengths, weaknesses, and category relevance. Themes like “great for families,” “walkable location,” or “business-friendly” influence how Google, Bing Copilot, and AI travel assistants describe and rank your hotel for specific guest segments.
We use advanced sentiment analysis to identify the review themes shaping your online reputation, then optimize your content, attributes, and positioning around high-value keywords that align with market demand. This improves both search engine relevance and brand perception, making your hotel more likely to appear in AI-generated recommendations and category-based search results.
Build the relevance that drives modern hotel visibility
Search engines and AI models no longer rely solely on keywords. They evaluate entities and relationships — how your hotel connects to neighborhoods, landmarks, amenities, local businesses, guest segments, and broader hospitality industry categories. Hotels lacking strong entity signals struggle to appear in semantic search, voice search, AI-driven recommendations, and modern hotel marketing ecosystems that prioritize relevance and contextual understanding.
We strengthen your entity presence by developing structured content clusters, enhancing schema markup, performing strategic keyword and intent research, and connecting your hotel to the local attractions, businesses, and categories that define your market. This reinforces your relevance across all high-intent search behaviors, improving visibility in both AI-generated results and traditional search engines, and positioning your hotel more effectively within the digital marketing landscape.
Transparent Reporting & Insights
Google Hotel Finder rankings depend heavily on data accuracy. Pricing, availability, OTA parity, and feed freshness all influence how your property is positioned in hotel search results and how AI systems evaluate its reliability. Even minor inconsistencies between your direct rates and OTA listings can reduce visibility, suppress rankings, and weaken your presence across AI-driven recommendations and metasearch environments.
We use AI-powered monitoring to track price parity, detect OTA undercutting, identify feed conflicts, and flag availability issues that can negatively impact performance. Our advanced reporting goes further by evaluating your current pricing against competitors and OTAs to ensure alignment with ranking factors across Hotel Finder and AI platforms. By maintaining clean, consistent data across all channels, we strengthen your visibility, protect your ranking signals, and support higher direct booking performance.
Real-time insights that drive real bookings.
Local travel demand changes daily based on events, seasonality, search trends, pricing behavior, and competitor activity. Traditional reporting can’t keep up—but AI can. Hotels that adapt their local SEO and content strategy to real-time demand gain a measurable advantage in visibility and direct revenue.
We use AI-driven insights to analyze shifting local search trends, competitor ranking patterns, review velocity, and category demand. These insights power targeted updates to your listings, content, offers, and landing pages—aligning your hotel’s SEO strategy with what travelers are actually searching for in your market right now.
What our clients are saying.
We view Gourmet as an extension to our organization and truly feel that they are fully invested in our success. The personalized attention is unmatched and we couldn't be happier with Gourmet Marketing.
The innovative strategies and deep understanding of the digital landscape demonstrated by Gourmet Marketing have been instrumental in enhancing our online presence and establishing our hotel as a quintessential destination in New York.
Gourmet Marketing quickly transformed our digital marketing and online presence for multiple brands across multiple markets. Their team of experts made quick changes to our strategy that resulted in immediate revenue impact. They are a true partner focused on their client's success and long term growth.
The Gourmet team is simply fantastic! Their creativity and attention to detail are unmatched. Working with them was a breeze, and they delivered outstanding advertising results. Highly recommend!
Daniel Cruz
Roost Hotels / President
Nur Ercan
COO / The Marmara Hotels
Jack McCabe
Method Co. / VP of Strategy
Shannon Averill
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Huseyin Ozer
Leyla / Owner
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