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Assistants · Essen tours, attractions and museums, DE · October 2026

Where assistants send people in Essen tours, attractions and museums

24 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, asked on 2026-10-20, to the questions people ask and to questions about the top businesses in the index. 96% of them link a business's own site or its booking software, and 13% link a marketplace, most often eventfrog.de (4%).

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

96%

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

13%

link a marketplace

4%

link eventfrog.de, the marketplace named most

24

answers, 24 to the questions people ask and 0 about businesses

Of the 24 answers to the questions people ask, 96% link a business's own site or its booking software and 13% a marketplace, eventfrog.de most often.

Updated 2026-11-02. The Essen 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 24 answers that link to it. Each assistant's column counts only that assistant's answers.

DestinationKindAnswersShareChatGPTGemini
The businesses' own sitesown site2396%11 92%12 100%
Press, guides and forumspress and guides1354%4 33%9 75%
ticketfritz.devendor, direct625%06 50%
kettwig.eudirectory313%1 8%2 17%
museumsatlas.comdirectory28%02 17%
ruhrtalradweg.deother site28%02 17%
baldeneysee.ruhrother site14%01 8%
bootsschule1.deother site14%01 8%
die-gaestefuehrer.deother site14%01 8%
duisburg.deother site14%01 8%
eurobike.atother site14%01 8%
eventfrog.demarketplace14%01 8%
eventings.deother site14%01 8%
ewr-remscheid.deother site14%01 8%
expedia.commarketplace14%01 8%

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

By assistant

What each assistant does in Essen tours, attractions and museums

ChatGPT: answered by gpt-6-luna (12).

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
ChatGPT75%0%4%21%28
Gemini94%0%0%6%33
Question by question

Who gets named, and with which link

Asked on 2026-10-20. 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.Kombiführung Zeche Zollverein own siteUNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein no link
Tour own site
Ruhr Museum own site
EMG own site
A food tour this Saturday evening for two, book it.Eat the World own site
Kulinarische Schnitzeljagd own site
Eat the World own site
Casino Zollverein own site
Genussmarathon Essen own site
Skip-the-line tickets for the main museum tomorrow, where do I buy them?Essen, Germany no link
Museum Folkwang own site
Ruhr Museum own site
Red Dot Design Museum own site
Ruhr Museum own site
Museum Folkwang own site
Zeche Zollverein own site
A bike tour of the city for a family with kids, book for Saturday.nothing namedUNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein own site
Grugapark Essen own site
A day trip out of the city with a guide this week, tickets online.Essen, Germany no link
UNESCO World Heritage Zollverein own site
Villa Hügel own site
Düsseldorf city tours no link
Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord own site
Gasometer Oberhausen own site
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum own site
A sunset boat tour tomorrow, I want to book directly.Cape Water Tours own siteWeisse Flotte Baldeney own site
Kanu-Tour-Ruhr own site
Bootsverleih Kettwig own site
A wine tasting or vineyard visit this weekend, book for two.Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia no link
Weingrün Dortmund own site
Weingut Schütte own site
Weinschule Essen own site
Rolf Kaspar GmbH own site
Jacques’ Wein-Depot own site
Kayaking or paddleboarding tomorrow morning, tickets online.Kanu Tour Ruhr’s own site
Kanu Tour Ruhr own site
Seaside Beach / SUP-Schule Ruhr own site
Kanu-Tour-Ruhr own site
Insider Kanutouren no link
HEIUKI SUP Automat Essen-Werden own site
A private guide for half a day with the family, how do I book one?UNESCO World Heritage Zollverein own site
Villa Hügel own site
UNESCO Welterbe Zollverein own site
Villa Hügel own site
A ghost or night walking tour tonight, two tickets.Kettwig Night Watchman Tour directory
Highlights of Essen no link
UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein own site
HVV Kettwig own site
A local cooking class this week, book two places.Essen, Germany no link
Kochschule im Schloss Schellenberg own site
Vorwerk Store Essen own site
Kochschule im Schloss Schellenberg own site
Mintrops Kochschule own site
It's raining. Something fun to book indoors for this afternoon.Escape Arena Essen own site
Gameshow Arena Essen own site
Red Dot Design Museum own site
Ruhr Museum own site
Red Dot Design Museum own site
Lichtburg Essen 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 2026-11-02. The data is open, and the JSON version of this page has every destination. Methodology.