Travel SEO
Travel SEO that gets travelers to book direct with you
Booking sites like Expedia take a cut of every booking they send you. Growing Search is a travel SEO agency that helps hotels, tour operators and agencies get more bookings directly.








Who takes the booking when your site doesn't show up
Booking sites and big travel brands go after the same searches you do, including searches for your hotel's own name. Ranking well starts with picking the searches you can win.
The big booking sites rank first
Expedia and Booking.com outrank most hotels in their own city, and often show up next to you when someone searches your hotel's name. Each booking through them costs a commission.
Google's hotel results favor full profiles
For hotel searches, Google shows a map with prices from several booking sites. A thin profile or a missing rate leaves that spot to someone else.
Seasonal searches start months ahead
Searches for a busy season start climbing months before it arrives. A page that goes live when the season starts is too late to catch any of them.
What our hotel SEO and travel SEO get you
Hotels, tour operators and agencies each get their own plan, and every plan is about more bookings that come straight to you.
A strong spot in Google's hotel results
A full profile and current photos help your property show up well there. Google's free booking links can put your own rate next to the booking sites.
Page one for the stays and tours you sell
Your room, package and tour pages rank for the searches you can win, like your neighborhood or the kind of stay you're known for. Each page makes booking with you easy.
More direct bookings and fewer commissions
Every booking that comes straight to you is one you don't pay a commission on. We track which searches lead to bookings and focus on the pages that bring in the most.
Guests who search your name land on your site
Booking sites compete for searches on your hotel's own name. We work to keep your own site at the top, so those bookings come straight to you and skip the commission.
Recommended in AI trip planners
We work to get your hotel or tour named, and described well, when ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews answer questions about where to stay or what to do in your area.
Bookings from every market you sell to
Guests in each market find a version of your site in their own language. Links from Spanish, French and Brazilian Portuguese sites help those pages rank there.
Planning around your busy season
We build a calendar from your booking history and search trends, so each season's pages are live and ranking by the time travelers start looking.
The same people stay on your account from the first audit on and keep watching your searches between seasons. If a booking site starts outranking you for your hotel's name, we tell you before it costs you bookings.
The order we do things in
The first audit shows where you lose bookings to other sites. After that, the work follows your booking calendar.
See where bookings go
We look at how your site, booking engine, Google profile and booking-site listings show up in search, and where travelers leave for a booking site.
Build for the next season
Technical fixes, room and package pages and your Google profile come first. Destination content for the season coming up follows right after.
Reach more markets
We add languages and markets, build links and keep an eye on what AI tools say about you. After each season we look at what booked and plan the next one around it.
Common questions about travel SEO
What is travel SEO?+
How does hotel SEO help us get more direct bookings?+
Can we outrank Expedia and Booking.com?+
What is the Google hotel pack, and how do we show up in it?+
How do you plan SEO around busy and slow seasons?+
Do you do SEO for tour operators and activity companies?+
What does SEO for travel agencies look like?+
Can you help us reach travelers who search in other languages?+
How do reviews affect hospitality SEO?+
Can you get our hotel recommended in ChatGPT and other AI trip planners?+
Will you work with our booking engine and website platform?+
How long does travel SEO take to work?+
Let's look at your next busy season
Book a discovery call. We'll look at who ranks for your main searches, from booking sites to local competitors, and tell you what we'd fix before your next peak.
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