Nicolas Sitter
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What AI searches when asked for hotels in Vienna

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 Vienna, captured week after week, not autocomplete suggestions.

ChatGPT
203
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 Vienna”
Answers captured
17
Searches per answer
1.1
Searched the prompt as written
18%
Captured
5 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 Vienna×2
  2. best hotels in Vienna Austria 2026 luxury boutique central neighborhoods reviews×1
  3. best hotels in Vienna Austria luxury boutique central location guide×1
  4. best hotels in Vienna Austria luxury boutique central location 2026×1
  5. best hotels in Vienna luxury boutique hotels×1
  6. best luxury hotels Vienna Austria 2026×1
  7. best hotels Vienna Austria luxury Michelin travel 2026×1
  8. best hotels Vienna Austria luxury 2026×1
  9. best hotels Vienna luxury×1
  10. best hotels Vienna Austria×1
  11. best hotels Vienna×1
  12. best hotels in Vienna Austria 5 star luxury boutique hotels Vienna top hotels Vienna×1
  13. best hotels Vienna luxury boutique hotels Vienna 2026 top rated hotels Vienna×1
  14. best hotels in Vienna Austria luxury boutique hotels×1
  15. Rosewood Vienna address official website×1

Showing 15 of 18 distinct searches.

Words it added to the prompt

luxury71%austria59%boutique47%202635%central18%location12%reviews12%top12%56%address6%guide6%hyatt6%michelin6%neighborhoods6%official6%park6%rated6%rosewood6%sacher6%star6%

Places and names it added

No capitalised name added in two or more answers.

Hotel topics in what it added

All Vienna prompts together

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

What a Vienna 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. Country name28% of answers

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

  2. A year25% of answers

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

  3. Hotel class or style23% of answers

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

  4. 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.

  5. Neighbourhood and location15% of answers

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

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

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