We ran 100 unbranded travel searches through Google AI Mode and logged every source. It built its answers from 2,558 citations across 1,229 domains, about 26 per answer, and 75% of everything it cited was a guide, a tips piece, or an itinerary, the exact content most teams are quietly cutting. This episode walks through why AI Mode harvests rather than ranks, why the content everyone is trimming is the content it cites (independent travel blogs took 56.8% of citations while tourism boards took 1.2%), why clicks leaving and citations staying are not the same loss, how guides, itineraries, and tips each get pulled, and the shared shape of the pages that get lifted.

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