Nicolas Sitter
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Live · refreshed weeklyUpdated September 28, 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 20, 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 data——0
Geminino data——0
Perplexity(paused)no data——0
Grok(discontinued)no data——0
Copilotno data——0
Google AI ModeHotel BrunelleschiFlorence—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.

ChainChatGPTGeminiPerplexity(paused)Grok(discontinued)CopilotGoogle AI ModeTotal
Marriott340248193—2222581261
Accor16911744—129143602
Hilton1525297—11575491
Hyatt1188475—97104478
Four Seasons10910130—96114450
IHG1205086—8052388
Mandarin Oriental513319—3644183
Minor431830—2525141
Radisson231832—3120124
Shangri-La372712—1629121
SOURCES

What each AI cited

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

AssistantMixCitations
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 captured0
Copilot
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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