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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 August 17, 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 | The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai | Mumbai | Taj | 8 |
BRANDS
Parent group mentions
Top 10 chains × 6 AI assistants for the week of August 17, 2026. Highest cell per chain bolded in purple.
| Chain | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity(paused) | Grok(discontinued) | Copilot(paused) | Google AI Mode | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marriott | 6 | 7 | 7 | — | 6 | 7 | 2949 |
| Accor | 7 | 6 | 7 | — | 7 | 6 | 1055 |
| Hilton | 6 | 7 | 7 | — | 7 | 6 | 994 |
| Hyatt | 7 | 6 | 7 | — | 10 | 7 | 710 |
| IHG | 7 | 7 | 7 | — | 7 | 7 | 684 |
| Four Seasons | 7 | 14 | 7 | — | 7 | 20 | 563 |
| Taj | 11 | 7 | 10 | — | 9 | 7 | 279 |
| Mandarin Oriental | 7 | 26 | 7 | — | 9 | 7 | 254 |
| Radisson | 22 | 23 | 8 | — | 28 | 27 | 213 |
| Langham | 7 | 9 | 10 | — | 14 | 8 | 171 |
SOURCES
What each AI cited
Source category mix per platform — OTA / Editorial / Independent / Chain / Encyclopedia / etc.
| Assistant | Mix | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Review 25%OTA 20%Editorial 17%Other 16%Community 8%Meta-search 3% | 5,801 |
| Gemini | OTA 25%Editorial 22%Other 19%Independent 11%Community 11%Chain 4% | 4,086 |
| Perplexity(paused) | Independent 31%OTA 22%Chain 17%Review 14%Other 5%Editorial 4% | 10,858 |
| Grok(discontinued) | no citations captured | 0 |
| Copilot(paused) | Independent 40%Chain 33%Other 15%Review 4%Editorial 3%OTA 2% | 4,310 |
| Google AI Mode | Search engine 68%OTA 7%Other 6%Editorial 5%Social 4%Independent 3% | 19,894 |
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