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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 September 21, 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 | Sarova Stanley Hotel, Nairobi | Nairobi | — | 6 |
BRANDS
Parent group mentions
Top 10 chains × 6 AI assistants for the week of September 21, 2026. Highest cell per chain bolded in purple.
| Chain | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity(paused) | Grok(discontinued) | Copilot(paused) | Google AI Mode | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marriott | 5 | 5 | — | — | 5 | 5 | 1798 |
| Accor | 5 | 5 | — | — | 5 | 5 | 1015 |
| Hilton | 5 | 5 | — | — | 6 | 5 | 693 |
| Hyatt | 5 | 5 | — | — | 5 | 5 | 616 |
| IHG | 5 | 6 | — | — | 5 | 5 | 479 |
| Four Seasons | 5 | 6 | — | — | 6 | 8 | 431 |
| Taj | 9 | 17 | — | — | 7 | 8 | 203 |
| Mandarin Oriental | 6 | 5 | — | — | 5 | 24 | 193 |
| Langham | 6 | 5 | — | — | 5 | 9 | 153 |
| Radisson | 9 | 5 | — | — | 20 | 15 | 148 |
SOURCES
What each AI cited
Source category mix per platform — OTA / Editorial / Independent / Chain / Encyclopedia / etc.
| Assistant | Mix | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Editorial 19%Other 18%OTA 16%Review 15%Chain 9%Independent 7% | 2,679 |
| Gemini | OTA 25%Other 20%Editorial 17%Independent 17%Community 7%Directory 4% | 335 |
| Perplexity(paused) | no citations captured | 0 |
| Grok(discontinued) | no citations captured | 0 |
| Copilot(paused) | Independent 39%Chain 30%Other 18%Review 4%OTA 3%Editorial 3% | 4,756 |
| Google AI Mode | Search engine 95%Independent 1%Chain 1%OTA 1%Editorial 1%Review 0% | 12,930 |
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