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Live · refreshed weeklyUpdated August 17, 2026
AI Hotel Landscape
How leading AI assistants recommend hotels — 616 prompts across 56 destinations, refreshed every Monday.
Data is directional. Some prompts retry due to upstream variance, so absolute counts can shift ±5% week to week.
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Week of August 17, 2026
A frozen snapshot. 1 of 6 AI assistants returned data this week.
HOTEL OF THE WEEK
Each AI's top pick
Most-mentioned hotel per AI assistant, aggregated across the 616 prompts for the week.
| Assistant | Top hotel | City | Chain | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | no data | — | — | 0 |
| Gemini | no data | — | — | 0 |
| Perplexity | no data | — | — | 0 |
| Grok(discontinued) | no data | — | — | 0 |
| Copilot | no data | — | — | 0 |
| Google AI Mode | The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai | Mumbai | Taj | 8 |
BRANDS
Parent group mentions
Top 10 chains × 6 AI assistants for the week of August 17, 2026. Highest cell per chain bolded in purple.
| Chain | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity | Grok(discontinued) | Copilot | Google AI Mode | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marriott | 319 | 209 | 248 | — | 251 | 210 | 1237 |
| Accor | 172 | 119 | 56 | — | 138 | 100 | 585 |
| Hilton | 131 | 69 | 148 | — | 117 | 95 | 560 |
| Hyatt | 119 | 77 | 90 | — | 85 | 76 | 447 |
| IHG | 103 | 68 | 109 | — | 93 | 68 | 441 |
| Four Seasons | 112 | 70 | 47 | — | 96 | 80 | 405 |
| Mandarin Oriental | 42 | 26 | 24 | — | 35 | 37 | 164 |
| Radisson | 22 | 23 | 53 | — | 28 | 27 | 153 |
| Minor | 27 | 15 | 33 | — | 24 | 25 | 124 |
| Shangri-La | 24 | 23 | 20 | — | 29 | 20 | 116 |
SOURCES
What each AI cited
Source category mix per platform — OTA / Editorial / Independent / Chain / Encyclopedia / etc.
| Assistant | Mix | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Review 25%OTA 20%Editorial 17%Other 17%Community 8%Meta-search 3% | 5,801 |
| Gemini | OTA 25%Other 24%Editorial 22%Community 11%Independent 6%Chain 4% | 4,086 |
| Perplexity | Independent 27%OTA 22%Chain 17%Review 14%Other 9%Editorial 4% | 10,858 |
| Grok(discontinued) | no citations captured | 0 |
| Copilot | Independent 36%Chain 34%Other 18%Review 4%Editorial 3%OTA 2% | 4,310 |
| Google AI Mode | Meta-search 68%Other 8%OTA 7%Editorial 5%Social 4%Independent 2% | 19,894 |
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