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 14, 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 ModeHotel 1898Barcelona—7
BRANDS

Parent group mentions

Top 10 chains × 6 AI assistants for the week of September 14, 2026. Highest cell per chain bolded in purple.

ChainChatGPTGeminiPerplexity(paused)Grok(discontinued)Copilot(paused)Google AI ModeTotal
Marriott55——551915
Accor55——55959
Hilton65——55702
Hyatt56——55525
Four Seasons514——513508
IHG55——56489
Taj914——99181
Radisson55——55158
Mandarin Oriental611——265145
Minor55——612143
SOURCES

What each AI cited

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

AssistantMixCitations
ChatGPT
Editorial 21%Other 19%Review 15%OTA 14%Community 8%Chain 6%
2,688
Geminino citations captured0
Perplexity(paused)no citations captured0
Grok(discontinued)no citations captured0
Copilot(paused)
Independent 37%Chain 31%Other 18%Review 4%OTA 3%Editorial 3%
4,604
Google AI Mode
Search engine 96%Independent 1%Social 1%Editorial 1%Chain 1%Review 0%
13,682

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