Nicolas Sitter
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Weekly until 19 Oct 2026, monthly from November 2026November 2026 edition

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 September 7, 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.

AssistantTop hotelCityChainMentions
ChatGPTno data——0
Geminino data——0
Perplexity(paused)no data——0
Grok(discontinued)no data——0
Copilot(paused)no data——0
Google AI ModePalace DowntownDubai—7
BRANDS

Parent group mentions

Top 10 chains × 6 AI assistants for the week of September 7, 2026. Highest cell per chain bolded in purple.

ChainChatGPTGeminiPerplexity(paused)Grok(discontinued)Copilot(paused)Google AI ModeTotal
Marriott555—551966
Accor55——66987
Hilton55——56714
Hyatt555—55509
Four Seasons56——57434
IHG56——57427
Mandarin Oriental65——55195
Taj95——106180
Langham55——55153
Minor520——276114
SOURCES

What each AI cited

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

AssistantMixCitations
ChatGPT
Editorial 18%Other 18%OTA 17%Review 16%Community 8%Independent 6%
2,652
Geminino citations captured0
Perplexity(paused)
Chain 31%Independent 22%OTA 15%Other 14%Community 6%Editorial 5%
141
Grok(discontinued)no citations captured0
Copilot(paused)
Independent 38%Chain 30%Other 19%Review 4%Editorial 3%OTA 3%
4,210
Google AI Mode
Search engine 97%Independent 1%Chain 0%Editorial 0%Social 0%Review 0%
12,674

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