Work With Us

Travel
& Tourism

Travellers now ask AI where to go, what to do, and who to trust — before they ever touch a search engine or a brochure. We help destinations and travel brands show up correctly in those answers.

DMOs, CVBs, attractions, hotels, tour operators — if your audience is already asking AI, you need to be in the room when they do.

Generative Response Ad — Destination Example
Best family beach destination in the Carolinas for July?
VS
Visit South Carolina Ad

Myrtle Beach and Kiawah Island are both fantastic in July — long sandy stretches, calm surf, and lots of family-friendly resorts. Kiawah is quieter and wilder; Myrtle has the boardwalks and mini-golf kids love. Want a side-by-side?

94%
read-through rate
3.2×
vs. display engagement
Why This Matters Now

Travel discovery is moving
into AI. Fast.

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Travellers are asking AI first

Trip planning, destination comparisons, restaurant picks, itinerary questions — all of it increasingly starts in an AI chat. The top-of-funnel moment has moved.

🗣️

AI describes your destination whether you show up or not

If you haven't shaped how AI sees you, it's improvising — often inaccurately, often with old information, and often without the nuance your brand actually stands for.

📣

A new ad format actually built for travel

Generative Response Ads let you answer travellers' questions conversationally, in context, at the moment they're asking. Not a banner. Not an interruption. An answer.

How travel brands perform with Intentful

AI visibility lift (first 90 days)+68%
Read-through on destination GRAs94%
Positive sentiment in AI responses87%

Figures from live deployments with destination and travel brand clients.

What We Do

Everything you need to be
an Interactive Brand in travel.

Three things, working together: understand how AI sees you today, fix what needs fixing, then show up in the answers travellers are actually getting.

As Seen by AI©

A clear, sector-specific audit of how AI systems currently describe your destination or brand — what's accurate, what's missing, what's wrong.

Explore As Seen by AI

Interactive Brand Enablement

The hands-on work: shaping how your destination shows up, updating what AI reads, and building a content foundation that AI can actually use.

Explore IBE

Generative Response Ads©

A travel-native ad format: real-time answers in your brand voice, triggered by questions travellers are asking right now. No forced exposure.

Explore GRAs
Who This Is For

Built for the people
selling a place.

We work with travel organisations who need to show up in AI answers the way they'd want a great travel writer to describe them.

✓ Good fit

DMOs & CVBs

Destination marketing organisations and convention & visitors bureaus responsible for how a city, region, or country shows up when travellers ask AI for ideas.

✓ Good fit

Hotels & resort brands

Independent properties and hotel groups whose future guests are increasingly finding them through AI-generated recommendations rather than OTAs or search.

✓ Good fit

Attractions & experiences

Theme parks, museums, tours, and experience brands that depend on being mentioned when travellers ask "what should we actually do while we're there?"

✓ Good fit

Tour operators & travel marketers

Tour operators, travel agencies, and in-house travel marketing teams that need to develop a credible organisational point of view on AI — fast.

Why Intentful

Travel-native.
Not a generic AI shop.

We've been working with travel and tourism brands on AI since 2021. This isn't a pivot for us — it's the category we understand best.

Travel is how we think

DMOs, CVBs, hotels, attractions — every frame we use was built in travel context. Case studies, benchmarks, examples, workshops. All travel-first.

Commercially deployed since 2021

Our Interactive Brand and GRA work has been live with paying travel clients for years. You're not their pilot. You're joining something already working.

A peer network that matters

Our travel clients learn from each other. Working with us plugs you into a room of destination marketers actively working out how AI changes their playbook.

Help travellers find you
inside the answer.

Let's talk about where your destination or brand shows up today — and what it would take to be in the answer tomorrow.

Intentful works with travel and tourism organisations — including destination marketing organisations (DMOs), convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs), hotels, resorts, attractions, tour operators, and travel marketing teams — to help them show up correctly when travellers ask AI where to go and what to do.

Intentful's travel practice combines three services: As Seen by AI© (audits of how AI currently describes a destination or brand), Interactive Brand Enablement (the hands-on work of shaping that representation), and Generative Response Ads© (a conversational ad format served inside AI answers). Intentful has been deploying this work commercially with travel and tourism clients since 2021.