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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 12, 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 | Cairo Marriott Hotel | Zamalek | Marriott | 12 |
| Gemini | no data | — | — | 0 |
| Perplexity(paused) | no data | — | — | 0 |
| Grok(discontinued) | no data | — | — | 0 |
| Copilot(paused) | no data | — | — | 0 |
| Google AI Mode | The Standard Spa, Miami Beach | Miami Beach | Standard | 6 |
BRANDS
Parent group mentions
Top 10 chains × 6 AI assistants for the week of October 12, 2026. Highest cell per chain bolded in purple.
| Chain | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity(paused) | Grok(discontinued) | Copilot(paused) | Google AI Mode | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marriott | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | 5 | 1296 |
| Accor | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | 6 | 831 |
| Hilton | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | 4 | 661 |
| Hyatt | 4 | 5 | — | — | — | 5 | 479 |
| IHG | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | 5 | 341 |
| Four Seasons | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | 9 | 315 |
| Mandarin Oriental | 4 | 5 | — | — | — | 12 | 132 |
| Radisson | 4 | 5 | — | — | — | 7 | 130 |
| Minor | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | 5 | 127 |
| Shangri-La | 5 | 5 | — | — | — | 14 | 107 |
SOURCES
What each AI cited
Source category mix per platform — OTA / Editorial / Independent / Chain / Encyclopedia / etc.
| Assistant | Mix | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Other 28%Review 19%OTA 13%Editorial 12%Independent 7%Community 6% | 14,894 |
| Gemini | Other 38%OTA 25%Directory 19%Chain 13%Editorial 6% | 16 |
| Perplexity(paused) | no citations captured | 0 |
| Grok(discontinued) | no citations captured | 0 |
| Copilot(paused) | no citations captured | 0 |
| Google AI Mode | Search engine 86%Independent 4%Chain 3%Editorial 2%OTA 2%Review 1% | 4,033 |
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