The Snapshot
Free
We run 15 of the questions your guests actually ask across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews. You get a plain answer: where you appear, who is named instead, and where the booking link goes.
AI search / direct bookingsAI now tells guests where to stay.
AI now tells guests where to stay.
Make sure it says your hotel.
Veenoa gets independent hotels named by AI search, across the business, beach and boutique markets of East Africa and South Africa. The booking goes to your own site, not an OTA charging 15 to 25 percent. Lodges too.
AI discovery is changing.
ChatGPTGeminiPerplexityGoogle AIMicrosoft Copilot
The shift
AI names a handful of hotels. Often, it isn't yours.
Travellers ask AI systems for a straight answer now, not a page of links. These systems read websites, reviews, directories and travel press, then name a handful of hotels directly. A hotel with great reviews and loyal guests can still be left off that list.
- 01“What are the best business hotels in Westlands, Nairobi?”Nairobi
- 02“Which beach resort in Diani is best for families?”Diani
- 03“What are the best boutique hotels in Cape Town?”Cape Town
- 04“Which hotel in Kigali is best for a conference?”Kigali
When a hotel is named, the description usually comes from an OTA listing, and the booking link leads there too. A good website and solid SEO don't fix that on their own.
The cost
Being named isn't the finish line. Where the booking lands is.
The same recommendation can end two very different ways.
Independent hotels and lodges typically pay 15 to 25 percent commission per OTA booking, often their largest single cost line. Which column a traveller ends up in comes down to which site the AI system found, trusted, and named.
Named via an OTA listing
- Question
- Recommendation
- OTA page
- Booking
Commission of 15–25% leaves with the OTA on every booking.
Named via your own site
- Question
- Recommendation
- Your site
- Booking
The full booking value stays with the hotel, direct.
What we do
What Veenoa does
Three steps: see where you stand, find out why, fix it.
The Audit
$1,500, one-time
50+ queries across your market and competitors. Which hotels are named instead of you, and why. What sources these systems trust, and where every booking link actually lands. A technical check of whether your site can be read by these systems at all. Ranked by what would move the needle first.
The Work
$1,750–$4,000/month
Plus a one-time setup feeStructured data so these systems can read your site. Correcting how you're listed across directories, review platforms and OTAs. Content that answers what a guest is actually deciding between. Monthly reporting on what has moved.
Audit credit
Move from the Audit into the Work within 30 days, and the $1,500 is credited in full against your first month.
Scoped, not packaged
The Work is ongoing, and scoped from what the Audit finds, not sold as a fixed package.
90-day re-test
Hotels on the Work get a free re-test after 90 days, to check what actually moved.
The approach
How it works
Step 01
Diagnose.
We check how AI systems describe your hotel today, and where the booking link goes.
Step 02
Identify.
We find the gaps: what sources these systems trust, and what they get wrong.
Step 03
Fix it.
We do the work that gets you named directly, and sends that booking to you, not an OTA.
Prove it yourself
Don't take our word for it. Ask AI yourself.
Copy a real question, paste it into ChatGPT, Gemini or any AI system, and see whether your hotel comes up. Takes two minutes, no form required.
Real traveller questions
“What are the best business hotels in [your city]?”
“Which beach hotel in Zanzibar is best for a honeymoon?”
“What are the best boutique hotels in Stone Town?”
Paste into ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, Copilot, DeepSeek.
Who this is for
Independent hotels across East Africa and South Africa.
01
Business hotels
City hotels near offices and business districts. Corporate guests decide fast once they trust the name.
02
Beach & resort hotels
Family and honeymoon stays on the coast, from Diani to Zanzibar.
03
Boutique hotels
Small, independent properties with a real point of view worth naming.
04
Conference & events hotels
Venues with the space and reputation to host groups, a strong market in Kigali and Kampala.
Lodges fit the same model too. A single AI recommendation can be worth thousands in booking value, and the alternative is usually an OTA taking 15 to 25 percent.
More on hotels & lodgesAbout Veenoa
Built on empirical data, not AI hype.
We study how ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews describe hotels, which ones they recommend, and what that visibility is worth in revenue.
Founded by Nigel Amoro
A specialist GEO practice for hotels, built on research, not guesswork.
Start with a clear view
Be the answer.
A free Snapshot shows you where you're named, where you're not, and where the booking link goes. Go deeper with a paid Audit.