Nicolas Sitter
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What AI searches when asked for hotels in Sydney

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 Sydney, captured week after week, not autocomplete suggestions.

ChatGPT
189
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 Sydney”
Answers captured
17
Searches per answer
1.4
Searched the prompt as written
18%
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 Sydney luxury×3
  2. best boutique hotels×2
  3. best luxury hotels×2
  4. best hotels in Sydney×2
  5. best hotels in Sydney Australia 2026 luxury boutique family areas reviews×1
  6. best beach hotels×1
  7. best hotels in Sydney Australia luxury boutique waterfront beach 2026×1
  8. best harbour view hotels×1
  9. best hotels in Sydney Australia luxury harbour views first time visitors 2026×1
  10. best hotels Sydney luxury Harbour Park Hyatt Capella Crown Towers 2026×1
  11. best hotels in Sydney luxury 2026×1
  12. best hotels Sydney luxury Harbour 2026×1
  13. best hotels Sydney luxury 2026×1
  14. best hotels Sydney Australia×1
  15. best hotels Sydney×1

Showing 15 of 18 distinct searches.

Words it added to the prompt

luxury77%202641%australia29%harbour29%boutique18%reviews12%top12%accommodation6%areas6%beach6%capella6%cbd6%crown6%family6%first6%hyatt6%park6%time6%towers6%view6%

Places and names it added

Harbour12%

Hotel topics in what it added

All Sydney prompts together

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

What a Sydney 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 / top21% of answers

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

  2. Hotel class or style20% of answers

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

  3. A year20% of answers

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

  4. Country name15% of answers

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

  5. Who it is for12% 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 Sydney.

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