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Assistants · Boston tours, attractions and museums, US · October 2026

Where assistants send people in Boston tours, attractions and museums

23 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, asked on 2026-10-19, to the questions people ask and to questions about the top businesses in the index. 100% of them link a business's own site or its booking software, and 30% link a marketplace, most often Booking.com (4%).

Fewer than 30 answers, so this share is not compared with other cities.

1 more answer named no place (a question back, or nothing found) and is left out of these shares.

100%

of answers link the business's own site or its booking software

30%

link a marketplace

4%

link Booking.com, the marketplace named most

23

answers, 23 to the questions people ask and 0 about businesses

Of the 23 answers to the questions people ask, 100% link a business's own site or its booking software and 30% a marketplace, Booking.com most often.

Updated 2026-11-03. The Boston tours, attractions and museums index · Places named, question by question · Markdown · JSON · Share image · All cities.

League table

The destinations, most linked first

Each row is a place an answer can send people. Share is the percentage of all 23 answers that link to it. Each assistant's column counts only that assistant's answers.

DestinationKindAnswersShareChatGPTGemini
The businesses' own sitesown site23100%11 100%12 100%
Press, guides and forumspress and guides626%3 27%3 25%
Booking.commarketplace14%01 8%
bostontowncrier.comother site14%01 8%
cambridgeculinary.comother site14%01 8%
citypass.commarketplace14%01 8%
community-boating.orgother site14%01 8%
Eventbritemarketplace14%01 8%
expedia.commarketplace14%01 8%
Facebookdirectory14%01 8%
gearo.comother site14%01 8%
GetYourGuidemarketplace14%01 8%
gocity.comother site14%01 8%
Google Mapsdirectory14%01 8%
greetwell.comvendor, direct14%01 8%

11 more destinations with fewer answers each are in the JSON.

By assistant

What each assistant does in Boston tours, attractions and museums

ChatGPT: answered by gpt-6-luna (11).

Gemini: answered by gemini-3.8-flash (12).

Places named when people ask

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places and a link to book or order with each one directly. The table shows how many of the places it named came with a link to the place's own site, to a marketplace or to a directory, or with no link at all.

AssistantOwn site or directMarketplaceDirectoryNo linkPlaces
ChatGPT92%0%0%8%24
Gemini74%0%5%21%39
Question by question

Who gets named, and with which link

Asked on 2026-10-19. A place in this index links to its report. A place with its own site that isn't in the index yet links to a scan. "No link" means the assistant named the place but didn't link its site. Each question links to the full list of places named.

QuestionChatGPTGemini
A walking tour on Sunday morning with tickets online.Boston By Foot own siteFreedom Trail Foundation no link
What it offers own site
Boston By Foot own site
Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum own site
A food tour this Saturday evening for two, book it.Up and Adam Food Tours own site
Boston Pizza Tours own site
Bites of Boston Food Tours own site
Boston Foodie Tours own site
Boston Pizza Tours own site
Skip-the-line tickets for the main museum tomorrow, where do I buy them?Museum of Fine Arts, Boston own site
Museum of Science own site
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston own site
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum own site
Museum of Science, Boston own site
A bike tour of the city for a family with kids, book for Saturday.Urban AdvenTours own siteUrban AdvenTours own site
Museum of Science, Boston own site
Boston Childrens Museum own site
A day trip out of the city with a guide this week, tickets online.Boston To Salem Tours own site
Concord Visitor Center no link
Boston History Company own site
New England Trips own site
New England Excursions own site
Plimoth Patuxet Museums own site
A sunset boat tour tomorrow, I want to book directly.Mass Bay Lines own site
Liberty Fleet of Tall Ships own site
Boston Harbor City Cruises own site
nothing named
A wine tasting or vineyard visit this weekend, book for two.City Winery Boston own site
Nashoba Valley Winery own site
Boston Winery own site
City Winery Boston no link
Experience own site
The Boston Winery own site
Nashoba Valley Winery, Distillery & Orchards own site
Kayaking or paddleboarding tomorrow morning, tickets online.nothing namedPaddle Boston own site
Boating in Boston own site
Community Boating Inc no link
A private guide for half a day with the family, how do I book one?Boston Private Guide no linkWalking tours no link
Driving tours no link
The Freedom Trail Foundation no link
What they offer own site
A ghost or night walking tour tonight, two tickets.Ghosts & Gravestones Nightwalk own site
Boston Ghosts own site
Haunted Boston Ghost Tours own site
Haunted Boston Ghost Tours no link
What to expect own site
Ghosts & Gravestones no link
Ghosts & Gravestones Nightwalk own site
A local cooking class this week, book two places.Thought Design own site
PAGU own site
Selfup Boston own site
La Scuola at Eataly Boston directory
Cambridge School of Culinary Arts directory
It's raining. Something fun to book indoors for this afternoon.Museum of Science own site
New England Aquarium own site
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston own site
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston own site
Boda Borg Boston own site
Method

How this is counted

Everything here is counted in answers, using the latest answer from each assistant to each question, asked with web search on. Some questions are the ones people ask ("best pizza delivered right now", "book me a table for Saturday"). The others are three questions about each of the top-ranked businesses in the index: the official website, where to book and where to order. Every link in an answer is read. A destination counts once for each answer that links to it, whether as the place to book or as a source the assistant cited. So each share is the share of answers that link that destination, and the shares don't add up to 100%.

All the businesses' own sites share one row, whatever the business. A booking or ordering vendor on the business's own domain counts as direct. Marketplaces and directories are named. Listing, review and map sites (Tripadvisor, Google Maps, Yelp) count as directories, even where the scanner files them with the marketplaces. Newspapers, magazines, guides, forums and tourism sites share one row. Anything left is listed by its registered domain, and a model sorts each of those unknown hosts once into directory, press, marketplace, vendor, business or other, with the reason shown. Text that only looks like a host because a space is missing ("them.here") is dropped. Business names are matched against the index. A place that isn't in the index links to a scan of its site, if the assistant gave one.

Updated 2026-11-03. The data is open, and the JSON version of this page has every destination. Methodology.