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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 August 3, 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.
| 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 | no data | — | — | 0 |
| Google AI Mode | The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai | Mumbai | Taj | 8 |
BRANDS
Parent group mentions
Top 10 chains × 6 AI assistants for the week of August 3, 2026. Highest cell per chain bolded in purple.
| Chain | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity(paused) | Grok(discontinued) | Copilot | Google AI Mode | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marriott | 356 | 210 | 280 | — | 228 | 223 | 1297 |
| Accor | 185 | 123 | 82 | — | 124 | 105 | 619 |
| Hilton | 140 | 66 | 141 | — | 99 | 96 | 542 |
| Hyatt | 128 | 89 | 95 | — | 96 | 88 | 496 |
| IHG | 114 | 61 | 105 | — | 76 | 66 | 422 |
| Four Seasons | 105 | 73 | 45 | — | 88 | 82 | 393 |
| Mandarin Oriental | 55 | 28 | 28 | — | 37 | 33 | 181 |
| Radisson | 30 | 27 | 59 | — | 27 | 26 | 169 |
| Minor | 35 | 19 | 39 | — | 24 | 27 | 144 |
| Shangri-La | 41 | 24 | 11 | — | 30 | 23 | 129 |
SOURCES
What each AI cited
Source category mix per platform — OTA / Editorial / Independent / Chain / Encyclopedia / etc.
| Assistant | Mix | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Review 24%Editorial 19%Other 14%OTA 12%Independent 7%Community 6% | 6,058 |
| Gemini | Editorial 24%OTA 23%Other 20%Independent 10%Community 10%Directory 4% | 5,086 |
| Perplexity(paused) | Independent 30%OTA 22%Chain 17%Review 14%Other 5%Editorial 4% | 11,115 |
| Grok(discontinued) | no citations captured | 0 |
| Copilot | Independent 41%Chain 32%Other 15%Review 4%Editorial 4%OTA 2% | 4,039 |
| Google AI Mode | Search engine 53%OTA 12%Other 11%Editorial 7%Independent 4%Social 4% | 26,357 |
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