AI Hotel Landscape
How leading AI assistants recommend hotels — 616 prompts across 56 destinations, refreshed every Monday.
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The 616 prompts we ask Gemini every week
56 destinations × 11 templates. Each prompt has structured dimensions: city, country, region, persona (couples / families / solo / business), budget (luxury / mid / budget), and location zoom (wide city vs neighborhood vs landmark). Control prompts are unmodified baselines.
Every destination below gets the same 11 question types — just with the city name swapped in. That's how 56 destinations × 11 templates = 616 prompts per platform per week.
- luxury hotels in <city>
- family friendly hotels in <city>
- hotels in <city> with rooftop pool
- hotels near <neighborhood>, <city>
- boutique hotels in <neighborhood>, <city>
- best hotels in <city> for solo travelers
- best hotels in <city>
- affordable hotels in <city> under $200
- best hotels in <city> for couples
- best hotels in <city> for business travelers
- best hotels in <neighborhood>, <city>
- hotels near <city> National Park
africa4 destinations · 44 prompts
americas14 destinations · 154 prompts
Each destination is asked the 11 prompt patterns above (11 prompts × 14 cities = 154 prompts in this region).
asia16 destinations · 176 prompts
europe17 destinations · 187 prompts
oceania5 destinations · 55 prompts
Each destination is asked the 11 prompt patterns above (11 prompts × 5 cities = 55 prompts in this region).
Named hotels of the week — Gemini
Hotels Gemini talked about most this week, with week-over-week movement. Filtered to Gemini only — switch tabs to compare across models.
Most-mentioned hotel by Gemini this week.
| # | Hotel | City | Chain | Mentions | W/W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peridot Grand Luxury Boutique Hotel | Ha Noi | — | 8 | ↑ 8 |
| 2 | The Fullerton Bay Hotel Singapore | 80 Collyer Quay | — | 7 | ↑ 7 |
| 10 | The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai | Mumbai | Taj | 6 | ↑ 6 |
| 8 | Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi | Ha Noi | Accor | 6 | ↑ 6 |
| 4 | Fairmont Royal York | Toronto | Accor | 6 | ↑ 6 |
| 9 | The Leela Palace, New Delhi | New Delhi | Leela | 6 | ↑ 6 |
| 3 | Electra Metropolis Athens | Athens | — | 6 | ↑ 6 |
| 6 | Hyatt Regency Cape Town | Cape Town | Hyatt | 6 | ↑ 6 |
| 5 | Hotel Monteleone | New Orleans | — | 6 | ↑ 6 |
| 7 | JW Marriott Gold Coast Resort & Spa | Surfers Paradise | Marriott | 6 | ↑ 6 |
| 36 | Wynn Las Vegas | Las Vegas | — | 5 | ↑ 5 |
| 16 | Grand Hotel Zermatterhof | Zermatt | — | 5 | ↑ 5 |
| 20 | Palacio Duhau - Park Hyatt Buenos Aires | Buenos Aires | Hyatt | 5 | ↑ 5 |
| 32 | The Windsor Court | New Orleans | — | 5 | ↑ 5 |
| 22 | Schweizerhof Zermatt | Zermatt | — | 5 | ↑ 5 |
| 31 | The Venetian Las Vegas | Las Vegas | Las Vegas Sands | 5 | ↑ 5 |
| 24 | Sultanhan Hotel | Fatih | — | 5 | ↑ 5 |
| 12 | Copacabana Palace, A Belmond Hotel, Rio de Janeiro | Rio de Janeiro | Belmond | 5 | ↑ 5 |
| 27 | The Langham, Melbourne | Southbank | Langham | 5 | ↑ 5 |
| 21 | QT Gold Coast | Surfers Paradise | — | 5 | ↑ 5 |
When Gemini hands out a hotel link, where does it go?
Every URL the AI returned for a named hotel, classified into direct (the hotel's own site), OTA (Booking / Expedia / …), chain page (marriott.com / hilton.com / …), or other. Chain folds into direct in the headline number because chain pages are still brand-controlled.
Where Gemini pulls hotel information from
Every URL Gemini retrieved classified into 12 buckets: OTAs, editorial, chain sites, direct hotel pages, social, meta-search, AI tools, community, government, directory consortia, and other.
Other luxstay.world 37% · barchart.com 32% · greektriplanner.me 32% | 25.6% | 1,304 |
Editorial thehotelguru.com 52% · timeout.com 24% · theluxurytravelexpert.com 23% | 23.6% | 1,201 |
OTA & Aggregator expedia.com 55% · booking.com 30% · hotels.com 15% | 22.5% | 1,143 |
Community santorinidave.com 48% · therooftopguide.com 28% · myboutiquehotel.com 25% | 9.9% | 501 |
Independent Hotel casagoliana.com 43% · kyotoaccommodation.com 30% · campospolanco.com 26% | 5.7% | 292 |
Chain all.accor.com 51% · fourseasons.com 32% · marriott.com 17% | 3.5% | 176 |
Hotel Directory hotelsforkings.com 39% · designhotels.com 38% · boutiquehotel.me 23% | 3.2% | 163 |
Meta-search kayak.com 67% · trivago.com 25% · momondo.com 9% | 2.7% | 139 |
Government / DMO esmadrid.com 50% · queenstownnz.co.nz 33% · experiencegoldcoast.com 17% | 2.1% | 109 |
Social Channel youtube.com 55% · reddit.com 45% | 0.7% | 38 |
AI Tool staygenie.app 100% | 0.3% | 16 |
Review Site aaa.com 100% | 0.1% | 3 |
Top hotel parent groups by Gemini mentions
Each Gemini mention matched against Google Places, then rolled up to parent group (Marriott = Ritz-Carlton + Westin + Sheraton + EDITION + …, etc.). WoW delta vs last week. Detection via 175+ brand-domain rules.
| 1 | Oberoi | 9 → 11 | +22% |
| 2 | Belmond | 11 → 13 | +18% |
| 3 | Langham | 15 → 17 | +13% |
| 4 | Kempinski | 17 → 19 | +12% |
| 5 | Peninsula | 14 → 15 | +7% |
| 1 | Loews | 11 → 7 | -36% |
| 2 | Rosewood | 14 → 10 | -29% |
| 3 | Minor | 25 → 19 | -24% |
| 4 | Radisson | 33 → 27 | -18% |
| 5 | IHG | 74 → 61 | -18% |
| # | Brand | Mentions | Hotels | W/W | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marriott | 210 | 133 | ↓ 0.9% | |
| 2 | Accor | 123 | 75 | · 0% | |
| 3 | Hyatt | 89 | 54 | ↑ 6.0% | |
| 4 | Four Seasons | 73 | 30 | ↓ 2.7% | |
| 5 | Hilton | 66 | 42 | ↓ 2.9% | |
| 6 | IHG | 61 | 44 | ↓ 17.6% | |
| 7 | Mandarin Oriental | 28 | 13 | ↓ 3.4% | |
| 8 | Radisson | 27 | 19 | ↓ 18.2% | |
| 9 | Shangri-La | 24 | 12 | ↓ 7.7% | |
| 10 | Minor | 19 | 12 | ↓ 24.0% | |
| 11 | Kempinski | 19 | 9 | ↑ 11.8% | |
| 12 | Langham | 17 | 4 | ↑ 13.3% | |
| 13 | Taj | 17 | 7 | ↓ 5.6% | |
| 14 | Peninsula | 15 | 9 | ↑ 7.1% | |
| 15 | Belmond | 13 | 4 | ↑ 18.2% | |
| 16 | Wyndham | 11 | 10 | ↓ 8.3% | |
| 17 | Oberoi | 11 | 5 | ↑ 22.2% | |
| 18 | Capella | 10 | 4 | · 0% | |
| 19 | Rosewood | 10 | 6 | ↓ 28.6% | |
| 20 | citizenM | 8 | 7 | · 0% |
Of the hotels named this week: how many resolved to a chain (Marriott / Accor / …), an independent property, a vacation rental, or stayed unmatched.
What every metric means
Plain-English definitions for each number on this page. For deeper visuals + examples, see the annual landscape report linked at the bottom.
- Captures
- Number of AI responses we collected this week. Target = 616 per platform (one per prompt). Less when there are upstream errors.
- Web search
- Did the response trigger a live web fetch? Detected from the underlying response stream’s search-result events, not the unreliable top-level flag. We do NOT force web search — this is organic model behavior.
- Map widget
- Did the response render a hotel-card map (the Google-Maps-style widget ChatGPT shows for travel queries)? Each card is a "map entity" with its own provider.
- Sponsored placements
- Paid sponsor placements. Detected from real single-advertiser ad units in the response stream. Excludes ChatGPT’s organic shopping cards (which are unpaid product carousels). US/AU/NZ/CA only as of May 2026.
- Sources / response
- Distinct URLs the model consulted while answering — the URLs that show up in its retrieval log, regardless of whether it cited them inline. Computed only over web-search responses (otherwise the answer is from training data, no sources to count).
- Citations / response
- Subset of sources that the model rendered as inline footnote pills in the answer. A source becomes a citation when the model explicitly references it.
- Fanouts / response
- Number of sub-queries the model spun up internally to answer the prompt (e.g. "best hotels Paris" might fan out to "hotels Paris Marais", "luxury hotels Paris", "rooftop hotels Paris", …).
- Map entities / response
- Hotel cards inside the map widget. Each carries a provider (Google Places, TripAdvisor, Yelp, Foursquare, SERP) and a place ID where applicable.
- OTA
- Online travel agency (Booking, Expedia, Hotels.com, Agoda, Trip.com, Priceline, etc.) — commission-based booking sites.
- Direct
- A hotel’s own website. Computed at request time by matching the cited domain against Google Places.
- Chain
- A hotel chain’s brand website (hilton.com, marriott.com, ihg.com, …). 175+ chain-domain rules.
- Editorial
- Travel media (Condé Nast Traveler, Time Out, Lonely Planet, Forbes Travel Guide, NYT, etc.) and city-specific travel blogs (santorinidave.com, theurbanlist.com, etc.).
- Directory
- Multi-property hotel consortia / brand collectives (Small Luxury Hotels of the World, Design Hotels, Preferred Hotels, Virtuoso, …). Aggregate hotels under one umbrella but aren’t a single OTA.
- Review
- TripAdvisor, Oyster, Yelp, Trustpilot, Holidaycheck — review-first platforms.