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AI Hotel Landscape
How leading AI assistants recommend hotels: 616 prompts across 56 destinations, a monthly edition checked before it is published.
Data is directional. Some prompts retry due to upstream variance, so absolute counts can shift ±5% between editions.
Week of April 27, 2026
A frozen snapshot. 2 of 6 AI assistants returned data in this edition.
HOTEL OF THE WEEK
Each AI's top pick
Most-mentioned hotel per AI assistant, aggregated across the 616 prompts for the week.
| Assistant | Top hotel | City | Chain | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai | Mumbai | Taj | 8 |
| Gemini | no data | — | — | 0 |
| Perplexity(paused) | no data | — | — | 0 |
| Grok(discontinued) | no data | — | — | 0 |
| Copilot(paused) | no data | — | — | 0 |
| Google AI Mode | Hotel Monteleone | New Orleans | — | 9 |
BRANDS
Parent group mentions
Top 10 chains × 6 AI assistants for the week of April 27, 2026. Highest cell per chain bolded in purple.
| Chain | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity(paused) | Grok(discontinued) | Copilot(paused) | Google AI Mode | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marriott | — | 211 | 99 | 83 | 98 | 221 | 712 |
| Accor | — | 61 | 49 | 34 | 34 | 84 | 262 |
| Hilton | — | 66 | 44 | 26 | 42 | 78 | 256 |
| Four Seasons | — | 57 | 31 | 41 | 38 | 59 | 226 |
| Hyatt | — | 68 | 37 | 22 | 31 | 59 | 217 |
| IHG | — | 40 | 29 | 17 | 18 | 51 | 155 |
| Mandarin Oriental | — | 36 | 12 | 20 | 17 | 41 | 126 |
| Minor | — | 32 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 34 | 104 |
| Peninsula | — | 26 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 23 | 87 |
| Taj | — | 17 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 22 | 65 |
SOURCES
What each AI cited
Source category mix per platform — OTA / Editorial / Independent / Chain / Encyclopedia / etc.
| Assistant | Mix | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Other 34%OTA 15%Review 12%Editorial 11%Community 11%Independent 4% | 10,013 |
| Gemini | Other 23%OTA 17%Editorial 16%Chain 12%Independent 11%Meta-search 6% | 486 |
| Perplexity(paused) | OTA 34%Review 21%Other 17%Editorial 8%Community 6%Meta-search 6% | 9,629 |
| Grok(discontinued) | OTA 20%Editorial 16%Other 14%Review 13%Independent 12%Social 9% | 40,033 |
| Copilot(paused) | no citations captured | 0 |
| Google AI Mode | Search engine 35%Review 13%Editorial 10%Community 10%Other 8%OTA 7% | 60 |
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