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Hotel Schema Markup Won't Buy AI Citations by Itself — but the Facts Inside It Will

The short answer Only 10.6% of hotel websites have what a large 2026 crawl considers “good” schema markup — and the median hotel scores exactly zero out of 100. Nicolas Sitter’s Hotel Schema.org Adoption Study (March 2026, updated June 2026) parsed 105,002 reachable hotel homepages out of 121,425 scanned across seven countries and found that 36.3% ship no structured data at all, while 41.1% of the hotels that do have JSON-LD use the wrong entity type — Organization or LocalBusiness instead of Hotel. ...

September 14, 2026 · 10 min · Palmtree.ai