Nicolas Sitter
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What AI searches when asked for hotels in Delhi

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 Delhi, captured week after week, not autocomplete suggestions.

ChatGPT
195
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 Delhi”
Answers captured
18
Searches per answer
1.1
Searched the prompt as written
33%
Captured
4 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 in Delhi×4
  2. best hotels Delhi×2
  3. best hotels in Delhi India luxury boutique business traveler areas 2026×1
  4. best hotels in Delhi India luxury midrange location reviews 2026×1
  5. best luxury hotels in Delhi India 2026 reviews locations×1
  6. best luxury hotels in Delhi India 2026×1
  7. best luxury hotels Delhi India 2026×1
  8. best hotels in Delhi luxury 2026×1
  9. best hotels in Delhi 5 star luxury hotels Delhi India list×1
  10. best hotels in Delhi luxury hotels Delhi×1
  11. best luxury hotels in Delhi 2025×1
  12. The Lodhi New Delhi address official website×1
  13. The Oberoi New Delhi address official website×1
  14. The Leela Palace New Delhi address official website×1
  15. best hotels luxury hotels Delhi×1

Showing 15 of 16 distinct searches.

Words it added to the prompt

luxury61%202633%india33%reviews11%20256%56%address6%areas6%boutique6%business6%leela6%list6%location6%locations6%lodhi6%midrange6%new6%oberoi6%official6%palace6%

Places and names it added

No capitalised name added in two or more answers.

Hotel topics in what it added

All Delhi prompts together

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

What a Delhi 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 style24% of answers

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

  2. A year21% of answers

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

  3. Country name19% of answers

    Write the city and country together at least once. Engines disambiguate with the country.

  4. Best / top18% of answers

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

  5. Reviews and ratings13% of answers

    Show review scores and named sources on the page, and keep them current.

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

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