AI Hotel Landscape
How leading AI assistants recommend hotels: 616 prompts across 56 destinations, a monthly edition checked before it is published.
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Queenstown by IHG
How 6 AI assistants recommend this property. Week of August 10, 2026. Tracked for 15 weeks.
Where this hotel showed up
Each prompt below resolved to Holiday Inn Express & Suites Queenstown by IHG at least once. The "reason" is the AI's own one-line explanation when it returned the hotel in structured form.
“affordable hotels in Queenstown under $200”Queenstown, US5 of 6 AIs13 weeks18 quotes
“best hotels in Town Centre, Queenstown”Queenstown, US4 of 6 AIs9 weeks10 quotes
“best hotels in Queenstown for business travelers”Queenstown, US4 of 6 AIs11 weeks12 quotes
“family friendly hotels in Queenstown”Queenstown, US4 of 6 AIs10 weeks15 quotes
“best hotels in Queenstown for solo travelers”Queenstown, US3 of 6 AIs5 weeks5 quotes
“hotels near Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown”Queenstown, US3 of 6 AIs4 weeks5 quotes
“best hotels in Queenstown”Queenstown, US2 of 6 AIs3 weeks3 quotes
Mentions per AI assistant, by edition
One line per AI. Each point is the number of times the assistant named this property across the 11 prompt templates for its city, that week.
Weekly until 19 Oct 2026, monthly from November 2026
| Week | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity | Grok | Copilot | Google AI Mode | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 10, 2026 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| August 3, 2026 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| July 27, 2026 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 3 |
| July 20, 2026 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 2 |
| July 13, 2026 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | 4 |
| July 6, 2026 | 3 | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | 6 |
| June 29, 2026 | 2 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| June 22, 2026 | 1 | 2 | — | — | 1 | — | 4 |
| June 15, 2026 | 1 | — | 2 | — | — | 1 | 4 |
| June 8, 2026 | 4 | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| June 1, 2026 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| May 25, 2026 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | 6 |
| May 18, 2026 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | — | 8 |
| May 11, 2026 | 2 | 1 | 4 | — | 1 | — | 8 |
| May 4, 2026 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | 2 |
Where AIs send users for this hotel
When the AI links the hotel, where does it point — the hotel's own site (direct), an OTA like Booking.com, a chain page like Marriott.com, or something else?