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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 31, 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 Standard Spa, Miami Beach | Miami Beach | Standard | 12 |
BRANDS
Parent group mentions
Top 10 chains × 6 AI assistants for the week of August 31, 2026. Highest cell per chain bolded in purple.
| Chain | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity(paused) | Grok(discontinued) | Copilot(paused) | Google AI Mode | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marriott | 7 | 7 | — | — | 7 | 6 | 2540 |
| Accor | 8 | 7 | — | — | 6 | 8 | 1085 |
| Hilton | 6 | 15 | — | — | 7 | 6 | 703 |
| Hyatt | 6 | 7 | — | — | 6 | 6 | 685 |
| Four Seasons | 7 | 15 | — | — | 7 | 8 | 640 |
| IHG | 7 | 6 | — | — | 7 | 12 | 404 |
| Taj | 9 | 8 | — | — | 13 | 10 | 254 |
| Mandarin Oriental | 8 | 28 | — | — | 8 | 7 | 245 |
| Radisson | 23 | 22 | — | — | 8 | 6 | 191 |
| Shangri-La | 6 | 26 | — | — | 31 | 32 | 178 |
SOURCES
What each AI cited
Source category mix per platform — OTA / Editorial / Independent / Chain / Encyclopedia / etc.
| Assistant | Mix | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 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 captured | 0 |
| Copilot(paused) | 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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