Nicolas Sitter
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What AI searches when asked for hotels in Beijing

Before answering a hotel question with web search, an AI assistant rewrites it into one or more searches. These are the searches it actually ran for 11 traveller prompts about Beijing, captured week after week, not autocomplete suggestions.

ChatGPT
193
answers, 1.2 searches each, May 2026 to Nov 2026

Explore by prompt

Percentages are shares of answers. Grok and Gemini were captured on an earlier prompt set, so most current prompts only have ChatGPT.

Best hotels
Luxury
Budget
Families
Couples
Business
Solo
Amenity
Neighbourhood or landmark
Prompt
“best hotels in Beijing”
Answers captured
17
Searches per answer
1.3
Searched the prompt as written
24%
Captured
5 May 2026 to 2 Nov 2026

The searches ChatGPT ran

Most frequent first. “×3” means the same search appeared in three separate answers.

  1. best hotels Beijing×2
  2. best hotels in Beijing×2
  3. top-rated hotels×1
  4. best boutique hotels×1
  5. best luxury hotels×1
  6. best hotels in Beijing China luxury boutique location recommendations 2026×1
  7. best hotels in Beijing China luxury boutique location neighborhoods 2026×1
  8. best hotels in Beijing luxury boutique hotel neighborhoods 2026×1
  9. best luxury hotels in Beijing×1
  10. best hotels Beijing luxury 2026×1
  11. best luxury hotels Beijing 2026 Mandarin Oriental Peninsula Rosewood Aman Four Seasons×1
  12. best luxury hotels Beijing 2026×1
  13. best hotels in Beijing luxury hotels×1
  14. best hotels in Beijing luxury 2026×1
  15. best hotels in Beijing luxury hotels Beijing top hotels Beijing 2026×1

Showing 15 of 20 distinct searches.

Words it added to the prompt

luxury71%202653%boutique18%top18%china12%four12%location12%neighborhoods12%peninsula12%rated12%rosewood12%seasons12%address6%aman6%list6%mandarin6%official6%oriental6%recommendations6%website6%

Places and names it added

No capitalised name added in two or more answers.

Hotel topics in what it added

All Beijing prompts together

Share of answers whose searches added each topic, counting only words that were not already in the prompt.

What a Beijing hotel page can cover

The topics ChatGPT adds most often here, with what a page can do about each. These are editorial suggestions drawn from the searches, not a measured ranking effect.

  1. Hotel class or style28% of answers

    State your class and style plainly (five-star, boutique, historic) in text and in schema.

  2. A year23% of answers

    Say what is current: this year’s renovations, prices and openings, with dates on the page.

  3. Best / top20% of answers

    The engine is looking for lists. Being on the editorial and booking-site lists matters as much as your own page.

  4. Neighbourhood and location16% of answers

    Name your neighbourhood and what is walkable from it, in words, not only on a map.

  5. Who it is for12% of answers

    Say who the hotel suits (families, couples, business) and why, with specifics.

Which hotels get named? The answers behind these searches are tracked in the AI Hotel Landscape for Beijing.

How the searches were captured and cleaned, and what is left out: method and limits. ChatGPT data runs to Nov 2026.