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Assistants · Edinburgh tours, attractions and museums, GB · October 2026

Where assistants send people in Edinburgh tours, attractions and museums

23 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, asked on 2026-10-24, 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 GetYourGuide (22%).

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

22%

link GetYourGuide, 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, GetYourGuide most often.

Updated 2026-11-03. The Edinburgh 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 guides1043%3 27%7 58%
GetYourGuidemarketplace522%05 42%
edinburghtips.comother site29%02 17%
edinburghtourist.co.ukother site29%02 17%
introducingedinburgh.comother site29%02 17%
7hillstours.co.ukother site14%1 9%0
Airbnb Experiencesmarketplace14%1 9%0
classpop.comother site14%01 8%
cozymeal.commarketplace14%01 8%
daysout.co.ukother site14%01 8%
divinoedinburgh.comother site14%01 8%
driftwoodadventure.orgother site14%01 8%
edinburgh-food-tour.comother site14%01 8%
edinburghwatersports.comother site14%1 9%0

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

By assistant

What each assistant does in Edinburgh tours, attractions and museums

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

Gemini: answered by gemini-2.5-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%4%0%4%26
Gemini85%2%0%13%47
Question by question

Who gets named, and with which link

Asked on 2026-10-24. 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.Walk the Old Town own site
Wee Walking Tours own site
Edinburgh Castle Official Guided Tour own site
The Real Mary Kings Close own site
Mercat Tours own site
Camera Obscura & World of Illusions own site
A food tour this Saturday evening for two, book it.Eat Walk Edinburgh own site
Edinburgh Food Safari own site
Eating Europe marketplace
Eat Walk Edinburgh no link
Edinburgh Food Tour / Eating Edinburgh no link
Taste & Tour Edinburgh no link
Edinburgh Castle own site
Skip-the-line tickets for the main museum tomorrow, where do I buy them?National Museum of Scotland own siteThe Royal Yacht Britannia own site
National Museum of Scotland no link
Official Website for Planning Your Visit own site
Scottish National Gallery own site
A bike tour of the city for a family with kids, book for Saturday.Edinburgh Bike Tours own site
A wee pedal own site
Electric Bike Tours Edinburgh own site
Bike Tour Operator no link
A wee pedal own site
Attractions & Museums no link
Camera Obscura and World of Illusions own site
A day trip out of the city with a guide this week, tickets online.Rabbie’s own siteRabbies Tours own site
Timberbush Tours own site
Highland Experience Tours own site
A sunset boat tour tomorrow, I want to book directly.Forth Boat Tours own siteForth Boat Tours own site
Maid of the Forth own site
National Museum of Scotland own site
The Royal Yacht Britannia own site
A wine tasting or vineyard visit this weekend, book for two.nothing namedDivino Enoteca own site
Cairn OMohr Winery own site
Whighams Wine Cellars own site
Kayaking or paddleboarding tomorrow morning, tickets online.Driftwood Adventure own site
Welton Waters Activity Centre own site
Camera Obscura & World of Illusions own site
Edinburgh Castle own site
Driftwood Adventure own site
A private guide for half a day with the family, how do I book one?Edinburgh Private Walking Tours own site
Experienced Tours own site
Edinburgh Castle own site
Clan Pascual Tours own site
Mercat Tours own site
Local Eyes Tours own site
A ghost or night walking tour tonight, two tickets.Mercat Tours own site
Cadies & Witchery Tours no link
SOLD OUT own site
Mercat Tours own site
City of the Dead Tours own site
The Real Mary Kings Close own site
A local cooking class this week, book two places.Yarrow Cookery School own site
Edinburgh Food & Drink Academy own site
Edinburgh Food Social own site
The Wee Kitchen Cookery School own site
Edinburgh Food & Drink Academy own site
Cozymeal marketplace
Edinburgh Castle own site
It's raining. Something fun to book indoors for this afternoon.Camera Obscura & World of Illusions own site
The Real Mary King’s Close own site
Surgeons’ Hall Museums own site
Camera Obscura & World of Illusions own site
The Chocolatarium own site
Dynamic Earth 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.