- Visibility20
- Citations2
- Sentiment50
- Site quality67
- AI readiness36
AI assistants name Host Hotels & Resorts in 15% of answers, which is less often than the typical company in its sector at 21.7%. Its overall score is 32 out of 100, placing it 1,033rd of 2,047 companies. The website passes 3 of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the travel market: none named Host Hotels & Resorts. AI assistants named it in 9 of 60 answers (15.0%). The typical travel company is named in 21.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Host Hotels & Resorts ranks 45 of 75 in its sector.
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Five parts, each scored out of 100.
How often AI assistants name the company
How often AI uses the company's own website as a source
How positively AI describes the company
How well built the website's own pages are
How easily AI tools can read and use the website
Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.
75 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Are hospitality REITs a good investment choice for exposure to the U.S. travel and hospitality market?”
Hospitality REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) can be a viable investment choice for exposure to the U.S. travel and hospitality market, but they come with unique characteristics and risks that investors should understand. These REITs own and manage various travel accommodations like hotels, resorts, and motels.
Potential Advantages:
Exposure to the Hospitality Market: Hospitality REITs offer a way to invest in the hotel industry without directly owning properties. They benefit from increased leisure and business travel.
Potential for High Returns and Dividends: When we …
The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.
How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals
Answers naming it, out of answers received
What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.
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Level 0: Not yet agent-ready. Agents struggle to find basic information about the site.
- 2 of robots.txt, Sitemap, Link headers
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtNot met
Publish a valid robots.txt with crawl rules and a Sitemap line.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPartly met
Serve an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersNot met
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present
Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationNot met
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtPassed
An llms.txt that tells language models what the site offers.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesNot met
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsNot met
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthNot present
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogNot met
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryNot met
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceNot met
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdNot met
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardNot met
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardNot met
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsNot met
Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.
- study: 33.7%WebMCPCould not check
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 18 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.hosthotels.com · 2,047 companies scanned
3 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.
These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.
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- Not metrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Passedllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
- Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
- Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as S&P 500.
- What are the main advantages of investing in hospitality real estate investment trusts for portfolio diversification?
- Hospitality REITs vs. direct hotel ownership: what are the key differences for institutional investors?
- Are hospitality REITs a good investment choice for exposure to the U.S. travel and hospitality market?
- How do hospitality REITs typically manage revenue volatility during economic downturns?
- Which other real estate asset classes offer similar geographic diversification as hospitality REITs?
- How can institutional investors use hospitality REITs to achieve geographic diversification in their portfolios?
- What are the main alternatives to hospitality REITs for investing in the U.S. lodging sector?
- How are hospitality REIT share prices affected by seasonal demand in the travel industry?
- Which hospitality REITs focus on luxury and upscale hotels in top U.S. cities?
- For exposure to the hospitality industry, what non-REIT options are available to institutional investors?
- What factors influence the valuation of assets within hospitality real estate investment trusts?
- What types of hotel properties are frequently included in upscale and luxury hospitality REIT portfolios?
- How do hospitality REITs differ from other types of real estate investment trusts in terms of risk and potential return?
- What are common risks associated with investing in hospitality-focused real estate investment trusts?
- What should investors consider before adding a hospitality REIT to their real estate portfolio?
Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.
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