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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 24, 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 | Emiliano Rio, an SLH Hotel | Rio 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.
| Chain | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity(paused) | Grok(discontinued) | Copilot(paused) | Google AI Mode | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marriott | 7 | 6 | 6 | — | 6 | 6 | 2674 |
| Accor | 6 | 6 | 6 | — | 6 | 6 | 963 |
| Hilton | 6 | 6 | 6 | — | 6 | 6 | 856 |
| Hyatt | 6 | 6 | 6 | — | 6 | 7 | 735 |
| IHG | 6 | 7 | 6 | — | 9 | 7 | 573 |
| Four Seasons | 6 | 14 | 42 | — | 19 | 17 | 499 |
| Mandarin Oriental | 8 | 7 | 21 | — | 8 | 7 | 247 |
| Taj | 9 | 8 | 11 | — | 6 | 7 | 213 |
| Radisson | 24 | 21 | 6 | — | 26 | 7 | 166 |
| Langham | 6 | 13 | 8 | — | 7 | 8 | 155 |
SOURCES
What each AI cited
Source category mix per platform — OTA / Editorial / Independent / Chain / Encyclopedia / etc.
| Assistant | Mix | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 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 captured | 0 |
| Copilot(paused) | 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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