Nicolas Sitter
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Live · refreshed weeklyUpdated September 7, 2026

AI Hotel Landscape

How leading AI assistants recommend hotels — 616 prompts across 56 destinations, refreshed every Monday.

Data is directional. Some prompts retry due to upstream variance, so absolute counts can shift ±5% week to week.

Week of July 6, 2026

A frozen snapshot. 1 of 6 AI assistants returned data this week.

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 data0
Geminino data0
Perplexityno data0
Grok(discontinued)no data0
Copilotno data0
Google AI ModeHotel MonteleoneNew Orleans9
BRANDS

Parent group mentions

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

ChainChatGPTGeminiPerplexityGrok(discontinued)CopilotGoogle AI ModeTotal
Marriott3272542162952471339
Accor14114075144118618
Hyatt1217084101100476
Hilton13154988575443
Four Seasons98935188107437
IHG9462767659367
Mandarin Oriental4430224636178
Shangri-La4219163327137
Minor3110273225125
Radisson2118332623121
SOURCES

What each AI cited

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

AssistantMixCitations
ChatGPT
Independent 24%Other 19%Chain 14%OTA 10%Editorial 9%Review 7%
13,627
Gemini
Editorial 25%Other 17%OTA 16%Independent 16%Chain 8%Community 7%
4,014
Perplexity
OTA 25%Independent 21%Review 18%Chain 13%Other 8%Community 5%
8,741
Grok(discontinued)no citations captured0
Copilot
Independent 34%Chain 28%Other 17%Review 7%Editorial 5%OTA 4%
2,668
Google AI Mode
Search engine 68%OTA 13%Other 9%Independent 3%Editorial 2%Meta-search 1%
17,672

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