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

Where assistants send people in Oxford tours, attractions and museums

24 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, asked on 2026-10-22, 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 25% link a marketplace, most often Viator (21%).

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

25%

link a marketplace

21%

link Viator, 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 25% a marketplace, Viator most often.

Updated 2026-11-03. The Oxford 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 guides938%2 17%7 58%
Viatormarketplace521%05 42%
citysightseeingoxford.comother site28%1 8%1 8%
digitickets.co.ukother site28%02 17%
oxfordcastleprison.co.ukother site28%02 17%
adventuro.comother site14%01 8%
classbento.co.ukother site14%01 8%
dayoutwiththekids.co.ukother site14%01 8%
expedia.commarketplace14%01 8%
GetYourGuidemarketplace14%01 8%
Google Mapsdirectory14%01 8%
iloveoxford.comother site14%01 8%
jerichokitchen.co.ukother site14%01 8%
kiddycompass.comother site14%01 8%

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

By assistant

What each assistant does in Oxford tours, attractions and museums

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

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
ChatGPT96%0%0%4%25
Gemini90%0%0%10%48
Question by question

Who gets named, and with which link

Asked on 2026-10-22. 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.Oxford Official Walking Tours own site
Oxford Walking Tours own site
Bodleian Libraries own site
Oxford Walking Tours own site
Oxford Official Walking Tours no link
City of Oxford Walking Tour own site
Footprints Tours own site
A food tour this Saturday evening for two, book it.Visit Oxford Tours no linkOxford Food Tours no link
Visit Oxford Tours no link
Eatwith - Oxford Food & Sightseeing tour own site
The Restaurant Tour in Oxford own site
Skip-the-line tickets for the main museum tomorrow, where do I buy them?Ashmolean Museum own siteAshmolean Museum own site
Bodleian Library own site
A bike tour of the city for a family with kids, book for Saturday.Oxford Bike Tour own site
The Story Museum own site
Oxford Museum of Natural History own site
The Story Museum own site
Oxford Castle & Prison own site
A day trip out of the city with a guide this week, tickets online.Go Cotswolds own site
Undiscovered Cotswolds own site
Footprints Tours own site
Go Cotswolds own site
Oxford Walking Tours own site
Footprints Tours own site
A sunset boat tour tomorrow, I want to book directly.Oxford River Cruises own siteOxford River Cruises own site
Salters Steamers own site
Magdalen Bridge Boathouse own site
Ashmolean Museum own site
A wine tasting or vineyard visit this weekend, book for two.Sunnyhill Vineyard own site
Oxford Wine Company own site
Brightwell Vineyard own site
Sunnyhill Vineyard own site
Brightwell Vineyard own site
Oxford Wine Company own site
Kayaking or paddleboarding tomorrow morning, tickets online.Thrupp Canoe & Kayak Hire own site
Oxford Wet n Wild own site
Oxford Wet n Wild no link
Paddleboarding own site
Kayaking own site
Adventuro own site
A private guide for half a day with the family, how do I book one?Oxford Walking Tours own site
Oxford Official Walking Tours own site
Oxford Official Walking Tours own site
Footprints Tours own site
Blenheim Palace own site
A ghost or night walking tour tonight, two tickets.Oxford Official Walking Tours own siteOxford Private Pub and Evening Walking Tour own site
A local cooking class this week, book two places.The Jericho Kitchen own site
The Raymond Blanc Cookery School own site
The Jericho Kitchen Cookery School own site
Hartleys Cookery School own site
Ashmolean Museum own site
Oxford University Museum of Natural History own site
It's raining. Something fun to book indoors for this afternoon.Oxford Castle & Prison own site
Ashmolean Museum own site
Oxford University Museum of Natural History own site
Ashmolean Museum own site
Oxford Castle & Prison own site
Bodleian Library 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.