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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 May 4, 2026
A frozen snapshot. 1 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 | no data | — | — | 0 |
| 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 | — | 20 |
BRANDS
Parent group mentions
Top 10 chains × 6 AI assistants for the week of May 4, 2026. Highest cell per chain bolded in purple.
| Chain | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity(paused) | Grok(discontinued) | Copilot(paused) | Google AI Mode | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marriott | — | 206 | 77 | 132 | 37 | 197 | 649 |
| Accor | — | 73 | 28 | 75 | 14 | 70 | 260 |
| Hilton | — | 68 | 38 | 54 | 14 | 78 | 252 |
| Four Seasons | — | 68 | 23 | 74 | 12 | 55 | 232 |
| Hyatt | — | 65 | 31 | 46 | 21 | 65 | 228 |
| IHG | — | 41 | 22 | 42 | 6 | 45 | 156 |
| Mandarin Oriental | — | 46 | 18 | 36 | 7 | 34 | 141 |
| Peninsula | — | 31 | 22 | 21 | 6 | 24 | 104 |
| Minor | — | 24 | 11 | 17 | 2 | 31 | 85 |
| Shangri-La | — | 20 | 11 | 22 | 8 | 22 | 83 |
SOURCES
What each AI cited
Source category mix per platform — OTA / Editorial / Independent / Chain / Encyclopedia / etc.
| Assistant | Mix | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | OTA 20%Other 19%Editorial 14%Community 11%Review 11%Independent 5% | 11,586 |
| Gemini | Other 24%OTA 17%Chain 15%Editorial 13%Independent 11%Community 9% | 254 |
| Perplexity(paused) | OTA 37%Review 20%Other 15%Editorial 7%Meta-search 7%Community 7% | 6,083 |
| Grok(discontinued) | OTA 25%Editorial 15%Independent 12%Review 11%Other 10%Chain 9% | 95,685 |
| Copilot(paused) | no citations captured | 0 |
| Google AI Mode | Search engine 18%OTA 17%Editorial 14%Review 14%Other 11%Independent 11% | 98 |
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