Does booking.com block AI crawlers?
Open to AI crawlers
booking.com doesn't block any of the major AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt.
Checked from booking.com/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.
- AI crawlers blocked
- 0 of 12
- AI bots named in robots.txt
- 0
- llms.txt
- Not found
- Popularity
- Tranco top 500 (#285)
Can AI assistants cite booking.com?
- ChatGPT search: its search crawlers may read the site
- Claude: its search crawlers may read the site
- Perplexity: its search crawlers may read the site
booking.com doesn't opt out of AI model training through robots.txt. Training crawlers and answer crawlers are separate: blocking training doesn't by itself remove a site from AI answers.
AI crawler access, bot by bot
| Crawler | Used for | Status on booking.com |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| Claude-UserAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| CCBotCommon Crawl | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| BytespiderByteDance | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | Some paths restricted |
How booking.com compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; booking.com does not.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; booking.com does not.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; booking.com does not.
- Among 191 sites of similar popularity, 32% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: * Disallow: /alt_avail* Disallow: /fragment.*.html Disallow: /fragment.html Disallow: /fragment.*.json Disallow: /fragment.json Disallow: /_frdtcr Disallow: /go$ Disallow: /go?* Disallow: /honing.html Disallow: /photo.html Disallow: /photo.en.html Disallow: /photo.de.html Disallow: /photo.nl.html Disallow: /photo.fr.html Disallow: /photo.es.html Disallow: /photo.it.html Disallow: /photo.pt.html Disallow: /photo.ja.html Disallow: /photo.zh.html Disallow: /photo.pl.html Disallow: /book.html Disallow: /mybooking.html Disallow: /confirmation.html Disallow: /srcompset.*.html Disallow: /srcompset.html Disallow: /navigation_times Disallow: /hotelsonmap.*.json Disallow: /general.* Disallow: /markers_on_map Disallow: /logo Disallow: /load_times Disallow: /anysearch.* Disallow: /region_attractions Disallow: /*city_bookings Disallow: /*nofollow=1 Disallow: /flexiproduct Disallow: /asapi/* Disallow: /js_errors Disallow: /js_tracking Disallow: /join_js_tracking
Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.
Sites with a similar AI policy
Does booking.com block GPTBot?
No. As of Oct 2, 2026, booking.com's robots.txt doesn't block GPTBot, though some paths are restricted for all crawlers.
Can ChatGPT search show results from booking.com?
Its robots.txt doesn't block OAI-SearchBot or ChatGPT-User, so ChatGPT's search crawlers may read it. Whether pages are actually shown depends on ChatGPT.
Does booking.com have an llms.txt file?
We didn't find a valid llms.txt at booking.com/llms.txt when we checked.
Data: booking.com's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.