Nicolas Sitter
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What AI searches when asked for hotels in Mexico City

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 Mexico City, captured week after week, not autocomplete suggestions.

ChatGPT
207
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 Mexico City”
Answers captured
20
Searches per answer
1.4
Searched the prompt as written
20%
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 Mexico City×3
  2. best hotels in Mexico City luxury boutique×2
  3. best hotels Mexico City 2026 luxury boutique neighborhoods Condesa Roma Polanco Centro×1
  4. best hotels in Mexico City 2026 luxury boutique Polanco Roma Norte Condesa reviews×1
  5. best hotels in Mexico City 2026 luxury boutique neighborhoods Condesa Polanco Roma×1
  6. best hotels in Mexico City luxury boutique 2026×1
  7. top boutique hotels×1
  8. best hotels Roma Condesa Polanco×1
  9. best luxury hotels×1
  10. best hotels Mexico City 2026 luxury Condesa Polanco Roma×1
  11. best hotels Mexico City 2026 luxury boutique Condesa Roma Polanco×1
  12. best luxury hotels Mexico City 2026 Condesa Polanco Reforma Four Seasons Las Alcobas Casa Polanco×1
  13. best hotels Mexico City luxury×1
  14. best hotels Mexico City×1
  15. best hotels in Mexico City luxury hotels Mexico City top rated hotels CDMX×1

Showing 15 of 24 distinct searches.

Words it added to the prompt

luxury75%boutique55%202635%polanco35%condesa30%roma25%top15%casa10%cdmx10%four10%neighborhoods10%reforma10%seasons10%address5%alcobas5%carlton5%centro5%las5%norte5%official5%

Places and names it added

CDMX10%Condesa Polanco Roma10%

Hotel topics in what it added

All Mexico City prompts together

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

What a Mexico City 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. Best / top28% of answers

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

  2. A year27% of answers

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

  3. Hotel class or style24% of answers

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

  4. Neighbourhood and location14% of answers

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

  5. Who it is for10% 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 Mexico City.

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