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 September 14, 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 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)CopilotGoogle AI ModeTotal
Marriott55——551918
Accor56——55969
Hilton56——55718
Hyatt56——55522
Four Seasons514——513512
IHG55——56484
Taj914——95186
Radisson55——55163
Mandarin Oriental511——265150
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
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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