AI Hotel Landscape
How leading AI assistants recommend hotels — 616 prompts across 56 destinations, refreshed every Monday.
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 in Miami — Gemini
Gemini's top picks specifically in Miami, US. Pick a different destination above, or clear to see worldwide.
Most-mentioned hotel by Gemini this week.
Wasn't on Gemini's radar last week. Now it is.
| # | Hotel | City | Chain | Mentions | W/W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas | Las Vegas | — | 8 | ↑ 8 |
| 4 | Hotel Monteleone | New Orleans | — | 6 | ↑ 6 |
| 10 | Wynn Las Vegas | Las Vegas | — | 6 | ↑ 6 |
| 27 | The Langham, Chicago | Chicago | Langham | 5 | ↑ 5 |
| 40 | Conrad Maldives Rangali Island | — | Hilton | 4 | ↑ 4 |
| 79 | The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco | San Francisco | Marriott | 4 | ↑ 4 |
| 59 | Loews Miami Beach Hotel | Miami Beach | Loews | 4 | ↑ 4 |
| 46 | Four Seasons Hotel New Orleans | New Orleans | Four Seasons | 4 | ↑ 4 |
| 71 | The Langham, Boston | Boston | Langham | 4 | ↑ 4 |
| 36 | 1 Hotel San Francisco | San Francisco | 1 Hotels | 4 | ↑ 4 |
| 44 | Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles At Beverly Hills | Los Angeles | Four Seasons | 4 | ↑ 4 |
| 43 | Fairmont San Francisco | San Francisco | Accor | 4 | ↑ 4 |
| 81 | 1 Hotel South Beach | Miami Beach | 1 Hotels | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 111 | Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Kuda Huraa | — | Four Seasons | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 121 | Hotel Mazarin | New Orleans | — | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 89 | Boston Harbor Hotel | Boston | — | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 166 | The Beverly Hills Hotel | Beverly Hills | — | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 151 | Palace Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel, San Francisco | San Francisco | Marriott | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 122 | Hotel Miami | Miami Beach | — | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 103 | Fontainebleau Miami Beach | Miami Beach | — | 3 | ↑ 3 |
When Gemini hands out a hotel link, where does it go?Worldwide
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 cited classified into 12 buckets: OTAs, editorial, chain sites, direct hotel pages, social, meta-search, AI tools, community, government, directory consortia, and other.
Other jetmeaway.co.uk 66% · luxstay.world 18% · travelandleisureasia.com 16% | 24.8% | 137 |
Editorial thehotelguru.com 55% · timeout.com 25% · tablethotels.com 19% | 19.9% | 110 |
Independent Hotel newmarkhotels.com 37% · bostonharborhotel.com 32% · hotelxtoronto.com 32% | 15.0% | 83 |
OTA & Aggregator booking.com 54% · expedia.com 33% · hotels.com 13% | 13.4% | 74 |
Chain fourseasons.com 39% · marriott.com 36% · all.accor.com 24% | 8.0% | 44 |
Hotel Directory hotelsforkings.com 36% · themostperfectview.com 35% · designhotels.com 28% | 4.3% | 24 |
Government / DMO experiencegoldcoast.com 36% · newyork.com 32% · visitingvienna.com 32% | 4.0% | 22 |
Social Channel reddit.com 57% · youtube.com 43% | 3.8% | 21 |
Top hotel parent groups by Gemini mentionsWorldwide
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 | Rosewood | 8 → 14 | +75% |
| 2 | Capella | 7 → 12 | +71% |
| 3 | Marriott | 195 → 254 | +30% |
| 4 | Peninsula | 15 → 17 | +13% |
| 5 | Hyatt | 62 → 70 | +13% |
| 1 | The Hoxton | 10 → 7 | -30% |
| 2 | Minor | 14 → 10 | -29% |
| 3 | Shangri-La | 21 → 19 | -10% |
| 4 | IHG | 65 → 62 | -5% |
| 5 | Langham | 22 → 21 | -5% |
| # | Brand | Mentions | Hotels | W/W | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marriott | 254 | 154 | ↑ 30.3% | |
| 2 | Accor | 140 | 94 | ↑ 11.1% | |
| 3 | Four Seasons | 93 | 35 | ↓ 3.1% | |
| 4 | Hyatt | 70 | 43 | ↑ 12.9% | |
| 5 | IHG | 62 | 48 | ↓ 4.6% | |
| 6 | Hilton | 54 | 43 | ↑ 10.2% | |
| 7 | Mandarin Oriental | 30 | 15 | ↑ 7.1% | |
| 8 | Langham | 21 | 6 | ↓ 4.5% | |
| 9 | Taj | 19 | 7 | ↑ 5.6% | |
| 10 | Shangri-La | 19 | 11 | ↓ 9.5% | |
| 11 | Radisson | 18 | 16 | ↑ 12.5% | |
| 12 | Peninsula | 17 | 7 | ↑ 13.3% | |
| 13 | Kempinski | 15 | 7 | ↑ 7.1% | |
| 14 | Rosewood | 14 | 8 | ↑ 75.0% | |
| 15 | 1 Hotels | 13 | 5 | · 0% | |
| 16 | Capella | 12 | 5 | ↑ 71.4% | |
| 17 | Oberoi | 11 | 4 | ↑ 10.0% | |
| 18 | Belmond | 10 | 3 | ↑ 11.1% | |
| 19 | Minor | 10 | 9 | ↓ 28.6% | |
| 20 | Wyndham | 8 | 8 | ↑ 100.0% |
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.