Nicolas Sitter
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Weekly until 19 Oct 2026, monthly from November 2026November 2026 edition

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 June 1, 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.

AssistantTop hotelCityChainMentions
ChatGPTno data——0
Geminino data——0
Perplexity(paused)no data——0
Grok(discontinued)no data——0
Copilot(paused)no data——0
Google AI ModePeridot Grand Luxury Boutique HotelHa Noi—9
BRANDS

Parent group mentions

Top 10 chains × 6 AI assistants for the week of June 1, 2026. Highest cell per chain bolded in purple.

ChainChatGPTGeminiPerplexity(paused)Grok(discontinued)Copilot(paused)Google AI ModeTotal
Marriott303235150—2202821190
Accor1739961—101113547
Hyatt1386362—7385421
Hilton1015066—70106393
Four Seasons948439—7988384
IHG695056—5394322
Mandarin Oriental442918—3242165
Minor351816—2232123
Langham232421—2126115
Shangri-La331913—2225112
SOURCES

What each AI cited

Source category mix per platform — OTA / Editorial / Independent / Chain / Encyclopedia / etc.

AssistantMixCitations
ChatGPT
Other 21%Independent 18%Chain 18%Review 9%Editorial 9%OTA 8%
19,118
Gemini
Editorial 25%Other 18%Independent 15%OTA 13%Chain 9%Community 8%
3,350
Perplexity(paused)
OTA 31%Review 23%Other 11%Independent 9%Community 7%Editorial 5%
6,931
Grok(discontinued)no citations captured0
Copilot(paused)
Independent 36%Chain 27%Other 18%Review 6%OTA 5%Editorial 4%
3,924
Google AI Mode
Search engine 64%Other 9%OTA 9%Editorial 4%Independent 3%Social 3%
22,384

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