Nicolas Sitter
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What AI searches when asked for hotels in New Orleans

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 New Orleans, captured week after week, not autocomplete suggestions.

ChatGPT
205
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 New Orleans”
Answers captured
19
Searches per answer
1.4
Searched the prompt as written
32%
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 New Orleans×4
  2. best hotels in New Orleans 2026 luxury boutique French Quarter Garden District reviews×2
  3. best hotels New Orleans luxury French Quarter 2026×2
  4. best hotels New Orleans×2
  5. best hotels in New Orleans Louisiana 2026 luxury boutique French Quarter Warehouse District reviews×1
  6. best hotels New Orleans 2026 luxury French Quarter boutique×1
  7. The Roosevelt New Orleans Waldorf Astoria official×1
  8. Hyatt Centric French Quarter New Orleans official×1
  9. Place d'Armes Hotel New Orleans official×1
  10. best hotels New Orleans Hotel Monteleone Four Seasons Ritz Carlton Windsor Court Maison Metier Place d'Armes Hyatt Centric Roosevelt official websites×1
  11. hotels×1
  12. top rated hotels×1
  13. best hotels×1
  14. best luxury hotels×1
  15. best hotels New Orleans 2026 luxury hotels French Quarter Garden District×1

Showing 15 of 21 distinct searches.

Words it added to the prompt

luxury68%202647%french47%quarter47%boutique37%district21%garden16%reviews16%armes5%astoria5%carlton5%centric5%court5%d5%four5%hyatt5%louisiana5%magazine5%maison5%metier5%

Places and names it added

French Quarter21%French Quarter Garden District16%

Hotel topics in what it added

All New Orleans prompts together

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

What a New Orleans 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. A year22% of answers

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

  2. 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.

  3. Neighbourhood and location20% of answers

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

  4. Hotel class or style17% of answers

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

  5. Who it is for11% 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 New Orleans.

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