Nicolas Sitter
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What AI searches when asked for hotels in Kyoto

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 Kyoto, captured week after week, not autocomplete suggestions.

ChatGPT
202
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 Kyoto”
Answers captured
20
Searches per answer
1.5
Searched the prompt as written
25%
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 Kyoto×4
  2. best luxury hotels×2
  3. best hotels in Kyoto×2
  4. best hotels Kyoto luxury×2
  5. best hotels in Kyoto Japan luxury boutique ryokan neighborhoods reviews×1
  6. best hotels in Kyoto Japan 2026 luxury boutique ryokan neighborhoods reviews×1
  7. best traditional ryokan×1
  8. best boutique hotels×1
  9. best hotels in Kyoto Japan luxury boutique ryokan 2026×1
  10. best hotels in Kyoto luxury ryokan 2026×1
  11. best luxury hotels in Kyoto Aman Ritz Carlton Four Seasons×1
  12. best hotels Kyoto luxury 2026×1
  13. best hotels in Kyoto luxury boutique ryokan×1
  14. best hotels in Kyoto luxury Aman Park Hyatt Ritz-Carlton Four Seasons Roku Kyoto 2026×1
  15. best hotels Kyoto recommendations×1

Showing 15 of 23 distinct searches.

Words it added to the prompt

luxury65%ryokan40%202635%boutique30%carlton15%four15%japan15%reviews15%ritz15%seasons15%aman10%hyatt10%neighborhoods10%address5%hiiragiya5%hoshinoya5%official5%park5%rankings5%recommendations5%

Places and names it added

No capitalised name added in two or more answers.

Hotel topics in what it added

All Kyoto prompts together

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

What a Kyoto 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 style23% 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. 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 location14% of answers

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

  5. Country name13% of answers

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

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

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