https://blog.palmtree.ai/tags/holiday-bookings/Recent content in Holiday Bookings on palmtree.ai Blog - AI Visibility for Travel BusinessesHugo -- 0.157.0enSat, 03 Oct 2026 14:52:00 +0200https://blog.palmtree.ai/posts/ai-travel-planners-seasonality-gap-hotels/Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:52:00 +0200https://blog.palmtree.ai/posts/ai-travel-planners-seasonality-gap-hotels/The holiday booking window opens in early October 2026 — but the AI assistants recommending hotels are running on training data frozen between January and May 2026, and models 'mostly' answer from knowledge 2-3 years older than their official cutoff (Zhao et al., ACL Findings 2024). Claude Opus 5's data stops at May 2026, Gemini 3.7 Flash at March, GPT-5.6 Sol at February — meaning last winter's reviews, last season's prices, and last year's Christmas-market coverage shape this winter's recommendations. Here is how the seasonality gap works, which seasonal signals AI engines trust, the pre-season content calendar hotels, tour operators and DMCs should run in October, and how to audit your winter prompts before travelers ask them.