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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 October 5, 2026
A frozen snapshot. 2 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 | The Fullerton Bay Hotel Singapore | 80 Collyer Quay | — | 10 |
| Gemini | no data | — | — | 0 |
| Perplexity(paused) | no data | — | — | 0 |
| Grok(discontinued) | no data | — | — | 0 |
| Copilot(paused) | no data | — | — | 0 |
| Google AI Mode | Cairo Marriott Hotel | Zamalek | Marriott | 6 |
BRANDS
Parent group mentions
Top 10 chains × 6 AI assistants for the week of October 5, 2026. Highest cell per chain bolded in purple.
| Chain | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity(paused) | Grok(discontinued) | Copilot(paused) | Google AI Mode | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marriott | 5 | 4 | — | — | 4 | 4 | 1500 |
| Accor | 4 | 4 | — | — | 4 | 4 | 682 |
| Hilton | 4 | 4 | — | — | 4 | 5 | 610 |
| Four Seasons | 4 | 10 | — | — | 4 | 4 | 372 |
| IHG | 4 | 4 | — | — | 4 | 4 | 368 |
| Hyatt | 4 | 7 | — | — | 5 | 4 | 357 |
| Mandarin Oriental | 7 | 4 | — | — | 5 | 4 | 198 |
| Minor | 5 | 5 | — | — | 5 | 9 | 118 |
| Peninsula | 4 | 5 | — | — | 5 | 4 | 107 |
| Langham | 4 | 9 | — | — | 5 | 6 | 107 |
SOURCES
What each AI cited
Source category mix per platform — OTA / Editorial / Independent / Chain / Encyclopedia / etc.
| Assistant | Mix | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Other 22%Editorial 21%Review 15%OTA 13%Community 8%Chain 5% | 2,435 |
| Gemini | OTA 31%Editorial 20%Community 17%Other 14%Independent 10%Directory 5% | 81 |
| Perplexity(paused) | no citations captured | 0 |
| Grok(discontinued) | no citations captured | 0 |
| Copilot(paused) | Independent 40%Chain 29%Other 18%Review 4%Editorial 3%OTA 3% | 4,828 |
| Google AI Mode | Search engine 97%Independent 1%Chain 0%Editorial 0%OTA 0%Review 0% | 12,218 |
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