Nicolas Sitter
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What AI searches when asked for hotels in Punta Cana

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 Punta Cana, captured week after week, not autocomplete suggestions.

ChatGPT
195
answers, 1.3 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 Punta Cana”
Answers captured
18
Searches per answer
1.2
Searched the prompt as written
28%
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 Punta Cana×3
  2. best hotels in Punta Cana×2
  3. best hotels resorts in Punta Cana Dominican Republic 2026 luxury all inclusive reviews areas×1
  4. best hotels in Punta Cana all inclusive resorts×1
  5. best hotels and resorts in Punta Cana Dominican Republic 2026×1
  6. best hotels Punta Cana luxury resorts 2026×1
  7. best hotels Punta Cana 2026 luxury resorts Hyatt Ziva Excellence Tortuga Bay×1
  8. best hotels Punta Cana luxury all inclusive 2026×1
  9. best hotels Punta Cana luxury resorts×1
  10. best hotels Punta Cana 2026 luxury all inclusive×1
  11. best hotels Punta Cana all inclusive luxury resorts Punta Cana top rated hotels×1
  12. best hotels in Punta Cana 2026 resorts reviews×1
  13. Secrets Royal Beach Punta Cana address official website×1
  14. Hyatt Zilara Cap Cana address official website×1
  15. Secrets Cap Cana Resort Spa address official website×1

Showing 15 of 19 distinct searches.

Words it added to the prompt

202644%resorts44%all39%inclusive39%luxury39%bay11%dominican11%hyatt11%republic11%reviews11%tortuga11%address6%areas6%beach6%cap6%eden6%excellence6%official6%rated6%resort6%

Places and names it added

No capitalised name added in two or more answers.

Hotel topics in what it added

All Punta Cana prompts together

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

What a Punta Cana 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 style34% of answers

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

  2. A year32% 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. Who it is for20% of answers

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

  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 Punta Cana.

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