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 August 24, 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 ModeEmiliano Rio, an SLH HotelRio de Janeiro—7
BRANDS

Parent group mentions

Top 10 chains × 6 AI assistants for the week of August 24, 2026. Highest cell per chain bolded in purple.

ChainChatGPTGeminiPerplexity(paused)Grok(discontinued)CopilotGoogle AI ModeTotal
Marriott766—662674
Accor666—66963
Hilton666—66856
Hyatt666—67735
IHG676—97573
Four Seasons61442—1917499
Mandarin Oriental8721—87247
Taj9811—67213
Radisson24216—267166
Langham6138—78155
SOURCES

What each AI cited

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

AssistantMixCitations
ChatGPT
OTA 22%Review 22%Editorial 17%Other 16%Community 8%Chain 4%
4,234
Gemini
OTA 29%Editorial 20%Other 17%Independent 12%Community 7%Chain 6%
2,489
Perplexity(paused)
Independent 30%OTA 23%Chain 17%Review 14%Other 5%Editorial 4%
11,496
Grok(discontinued)no citations captured0
Copilot
Independent 40%Chain 33%Other 16%Editorial 3%Review 3%OTA 3%
4,275
Google AI Mode
Search engine 64%OTA 9%Other 8%Editorial 6%Social 4%Independent 3%
20,322

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