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 27, 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—9
BRANDS

Parent group mentions

Top 10 chains × 6 AI assistants for the week of July 27, 2026. Highest cell per chain bolded in purple.

ChainChatGPTGeminiPerplexity(paused)Grok(discontinued)CopilotGoogle AI ModeTotal
Marriott345212232—2092721270
Accor17912368—72148590
Hilton15068127—8671502
Hyatt1318490—72110487
IHG1157488—6773417
Four Seasons1117536—68117407
Mandarin Oriental502933—1748177
Minor382535—3126155
Radisson273338—2829155
Shangri-La382613—1438129
SOURCES

What each AI cited

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

AssistantMixCitations
ChatGPT
Review 24%Editorial 20%Other 15%OTA 12%Independent 6%Community 6%
6,073
Gemini
OTA 23%Editorial 23%Other 18%Community 11%Independent 11%Chain 5%
5,282
Perplexity(paused)
Independent 31%OTA 23%Chain 17%Review 14%Editorial 4%Other 4%
11,074
Grok(discontinued)no citations captured0
Copilot
Independent 43%Chain 29%Other 15%Review 4%Editorial 3%OTA 2%
5,702
Google AI Mode
Search engine 61%OTA 11%Other 8%Editorial 6%Social 4%Independent 3%
24,117

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