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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 11, 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 | Cairo Marriott Hotel | Zamalek | Marriott | 9 |
BRANDS
Parent group mentions
Top 10 chains × 6 AI assistants for the week of May 11, 2026. Highest cell per chain bolded in purple.
| Chain | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity(paused) | Grok(discontinued) | Copilot(paused) | Google AI Mode | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marriott | 281 | 344 | 224 | 239 | 253 | 288 | 1629 |
| Accor | 147 | 122 | 72 | 143 | 109 | 139 | 732 |
| Hyatt | 121 | 116 | 85 | 101 | 80 | 100 | 603 |
| Four Seasons | 76 | 102 | 66 | 124 | 82 | 101 | 551 |
| Hilton | 80 | 84 | 98 | 76 | 76 | 96 | 510 |
| IHG | 66 | 57 | 85 | 65 | 60 | 82 | 415 |
| Mandarin Oriental | 42 | 42 | 25 | 51 | 31 | 44 | 235 |
| Shangri-La | 36 | 24 | 25 | 33 | 26 | 26 | 170 |
| Minor | 30 | 28 | 16 | 22 | 26 | 26 | 148 |
| Kempinski | 27 | 22 | 15 | 34 | 24 | 25 | 147 |
SOURCES
What each AI cited
Source category mix per platform — OTA / Editorial / Independent / Chain / Encyclopedia / etc.
| Assistant | Mix | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Social 23%Other 18%Editorial 17%Community 14%Review 11%OTA 5% | 1,054 |
| Gemini | Editorial 29%Other 18%OTA 14%Independent 14%Community 9%Chain 7% | 3,961 |
| Perplexity(paused) | OTA 24%Independent 19%Review 16%Other 10%Chain 10%Editorial 6% | 8,256 |
| Grok(discontinued) | OTA 25%Editorial 15%Independent 12%Review 11%Other 10%Chain 9% | 49,052 |
| Copilot(paused) | Independent 45%Chain 36%Other 7%Editorial 3%Review 3%OTA 2% | 3,348 |
| Google AI Mode | Search engine 38%Other 14%OTA 14%Editorial 8%Independent 6%Social 6% | 9,864 |
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