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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 July 20, 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 Brunelleschi | Florence | — | 8 |
BRANDS
Parent group mentions
Top 10 chains × 6 AI assistants for the week of July 20, 2026. Highest cell per chain bolded in purple.
| Chain | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity(paused) | Grok(discontinued) | Copilot(paused) | Google AI Mode | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marriott | 340 | 248 | 193 | — | 222 | 258 | 1261 |
| Accor | 169 | 117 | 44 | — | 129 | 143 | 602 |
| Hilton | 152 | 52 | 97 | — | 115 | 75 | 491 |
| Hyatt | 118 | 84 | 75 | — | 97 | 104 | 478 |
| Four Seasons | 109 | 101 | 30 | — | 96 | 114 | 450 |
| IHG | 120 | 50 | 86 | — | 80 | 52 | 388 |
| Mandarin Oriental | 51 | 33 | 19 | — | 36 | 44 | 183 |
| Minor | 43 | 18 | 30 | — | 25 | 25 | 141 |
| Radisson | 23 | 18 | 32 | — | 31 | 20 | 124 |
| Shangri-La | 37 | 27 | 12 | — | 16 | 29 | 121 |
SOURCES
What each AI cited
Source category mix per platform — OTA / Editorial / Independent / Chain / Encyclopedia / etc.
| Assistant | Mix | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Review 24%Editorial 20%Other 12%OTA 12%Independent 6%Social 6% | 6,423 |
| Gemini | Editorial 21%OTA 21%Other 17%Independent 15%Community 10%Chain 6% | 4,203 |
| Perplexity(paused) | Independent 30%OTA 20%Chain 17%Review 13%Other 7%Editorial 4% | 10,882 |
| Grok(discontinued) | no citations captured | 0 |
| Copilot(paused) | Independent 40%Chain 35%Other 14%Review 4%OTA 3%Editorial 2% | 5,637 |
| Google AI Mode | Search engine 63%OTA 10%Other 7%Editorial 5%Social 4%Independent 3% | 21,941 |
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