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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 June 29, 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 | — | 9 |
BRANDS
Parent group mentions
Top 10 chains × 6 AI assistants for the week of June 29, 2026. Highest cell per chain bolded in purple.
| Chain | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity(paused) | Grok(discontinued) | Copilot(paused) | Google AI Mode | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marriott | 326 | 195 | 168 | — | 256 | 264 | 1209 |
| Accor | 209 | 126 | 102 | — | 123 | 151 | 711 |
| Hyatt | 126 | 62 | 63 | — | 88 | 106 | 445 |
| Four Seasons | 93 | 96 | 41 | — | 84 | 120 | 434 |
| Hilton | 134 | 49 | 49 | — | 68 | 67 | 367 |
| IHG | 113 | 65 | 56 | — | 55 | 59 | 348 |
| Mandarin Oriental | 55 | 28 | 20 | — | 36 | 41 | 180 |
| Langham | 25 | 22 | 25 | — | 34 | 35 | 141 |
| Shangri-La | 28 | 21 | 22 | — | 30 | 33 | 134 |
| Minor | 26 | 14 | 13 | — | 25 | 24 | 102 |
SOURCES
What each AI cited
Source category mix per platform — OTA / Editorial / Independent / Chain / Encyclopedia / etc.
| Assistant | Mix | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Independent 20%Chain 16%Other 16%Review 13%OTA 11%Editorial 8% | 14,505 |
| Gemini | Editorial 20%Other 19%Independent 18%OTA 18%Community 8%Chain 8% | 3,936 |
| Perplexity(paused) | OTA 40%Review 20%Other 11%Community 9%Editorial 6%Meta-search 6% | 5,890 |
| Grok(discontinued) | no citations captured | 0 |
| Copilot(paused) | Independent 36%Chain 28%Other 17%Review 7%Editorial 5%OTA 5% | 2,746 |
| Google AI Mode | Search engine 68%OTA 13%Other 9%Independent 3%Editorial 2%Meta-search 1% | 17,717 |
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