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 31, 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 ModeThe Standard Spa, Miami BeachMiami BeachStandard12
BRANDS

Parent group mentions

Top 10 chains × 6 AI assistants for the week of August 31, 2026. Highest cell per chain bolded in purple.

ChainChatGPTGeminiPerplexity(paused)Grok(discontinued)CopilotGoogle AI ModeTotal
Marriott77——762540
Accor87——681085
Hilton615——76703
Hyatt67——66685
Four Seasons715——78640
IHG76——712404
Taj98——1310254
Mandarin Oriental828——87245
Radisson2322——86191
Shangri-La626——3132178
SOURCES

What each AI cited

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

AssistantMixCitations
ChatGPT
Editorial 22%OTA 17%Other 17%Review 16%Community 8%Independent 5%
5,638
Gemini
OTA 23%Other 21%Editorial 19%Independent 10%Community 10%Directory 4%
3,880
Perplexity(paused)
OTA 28%Independent 26%Other 11%Chain 9%Review 9%Editorial 7%
275
Grok(discontinued)no citations captured0
Copilot
Independent 39%Chain 32%Other 12%Review 7%OTA 4%Editorial 3%
9,154
Google AI Mode
Search engine 100%Social 0%Chain 0%Review 0%
26,032

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