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Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings

nclhltd.com · Travel · NCLH

Ranked 1,019 of 2,047 companies in the study

32Overall score
  • Visibility21
  • Citations0
  • Sentiment50
  • Site quality80
  • AI readiness21
What this means for Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings

AI assistants name Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings in 21.7% of answers, the same as the typical company in the travel sector. Its overall score is 32 out of 100, ranking 1,019th of 2,047 companies. The company's website passes 3 of 14 technical checks for how ready it is for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the travel market: none named Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings. AI assistants named it in 13 of 60 answers (21.7%). The typical travel company is named in 21.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings ranks 36 of 75 in its sector.

Named by AI in
21.7%
13 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
19.4%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
3/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
51 of 75
by overall score, where the typical travel company scores 37
How Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings compares with all 2,047 companies

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This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named

What makes up the score

Five parts, each scored out of 100.

Visibility
21

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
0

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
50

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
80

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
21

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Compared with travel

75 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score32
Ranks 51 of 75. Typical company: 37
Named in answers22%
Ranks 36 of 75. Typical company: 22%
AI readiness21
Ranks 34 of 75. Typical company: 21
What Claude actually said

An answer that names the company

“Which cruise experiences are best for multigenerational family trips?”

I'll search for information about the best cruise experiences for multigenerational family trips.Based on current information, here are the best cruise experiences for multigenerational family trips:

Top Cruise Lines

Royal Caribbean stands out as one of the best options. Royal Caribbean family vacations bring together kid-approved activities, dedicated teen programs, and relaxing spaces for parents—all onboard award-winning cruise ships designed for multigenerational travel. Its Oasis and Icon class cruise ships feature water parks, wave machines, ziplines, ice skating rinks, Broadway …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

Also named
Carnival Cruise Line6Celebrity Cruises5Princess Cruises1Royal Caribbean International1
Share of mentions

How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals

Royal Caribbean International
30.6%
Carnival Cruise Line
22.6%
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings
21.0%
Princess Cruises
11.3%
Celebrity Cruises
11.3%
Holland America Line
3.2%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Claude
4/15
Gemini
3/15
OpenAI
3/15
Perplexity
3/15
Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 0: Not yet agent-ready. Agents struggle to find basic information about the site.

To reach level 1:
  • 2 of robots.txt, Sitemap, Link headers
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
31 of 100
  • robots.txtNot met

    Publish a valid robots.txt with crawl rules and a Sitemap line.

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapPartly met

    Serve an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt.

    study: 86.8%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 0.3%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 5.5%
Content accessibility
0 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtNot met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 25.1%
Bot access control
0 of 100
  • AI bot rulesNot met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 93.4%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 1.4%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.2%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 0.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 11.8%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 10.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.0%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.2%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.1%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 0.2%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 33.7%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.1%

Score 7 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.nclhltd.com · 2,047 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

The checks behind the AI readiness score

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.

Show the 14 checks
Discoverability
  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
Content Accessibility
  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
Bot Access Control
  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
API / Auth / MCP
  • 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%
Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

cruisecritic.com
32
royalcaribbean.com
25
thepointsguy.com
16
reddit.com
16
cruisebooking.com
15
cruiseline.com
15
aaa.com
12
virginvoyages.com
10
travelandleisure.com
10
travelandtourworld.com
10

In the study as S&P 500.

Every question, and where the company came up (4 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • Which cruise experiences are best for multigenerational family trips?
  • What are some land-based vacation alternatives to ocean cruises?
  • What other travel options offer all-inclusive experiences similar to cruises?
  • All-inclusive cruises vs. pay-as-you-go cruises: what's the difference?
  • What are the top cruise options for solo travelers seeking adventure?
  • Is it better to book a cruise early or wait for last-minute deals?
  • Which cruise operators offer the most innovative on-board activities?
  • What factors can increase or decrease the total price of a cruise vacation?
  • How much does an average 7-day global cruise cost per person?
  • Alternatives to cruising for seeing multiple countries in one trip?
  • How do you handle accessibility issues when booking a cruise vacation?
  • Are luxury cruise vacations worth the extra cost for most travelers?
  • What should I do if my cruise itinerary changes unexpectedly?
  • How do ocean cruises compare to river cruises for international travel?
  • What are the best global cruise lines for a family-friendly vacation experience?
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

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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