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Live · refreshed weeklyUpdated August 10, 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.
PROMPTS

The 616 prompts we ask ChatGPT every week

56 destinations × 11 templates. Each prompt has structured dimensions: city, country, region, persona (couples / families / solo / business), budget (luxury / mid / budget), and location zoom (wide city vs neighborhood vs landmark). Control prompts are unmodified baselines.

Prompts / week
616
across 6 platforms
Destinations
56
distinct cities
Countries
37
dest country
Regions
5
continental groupings
56 destinations across 37 countrieseuropeamericasasiaafricaoceania
Template patterns

Every destination below gets the same 11 question types — just with the city name swapped in. That's how 56 destinations × 11 templates = 616 prompts per platform per week.

  • luxury hotels in <city>
  • family friendly hotels in <city>
  • hotels in <city> with rooftop pool
  • hotels near <neighborhood>, <city>
  • boutique hotels in <neighborhood>, <city>
  • best hotels in <city> for solo travelers
  • best hotels in <city>
  • affordable hotels in <city> under $200
  • best hotels in <city> for couples
  • best hotels in <city> for business travelers
  • best hotels in <neighborhood>, <city>
  • hotels near <city> National Park
africa4 destinations · 44 prompts

Each destination is asked the 11 prompt patterns above (11 prompts × 4 cities = 44 prompts in this region).

americas14 destinations · 154 prompts

Each destination is asked the 11 prompt patterns above (11 prompts × 14 cities = 154 prompts in this region).

asia16 destinations · 176 prompts

Each destination is asked the 11 prompt patterns above (11 prompts × 16 cities = 176 prompts in this region).

europe17 destinations · 187 prompts

Each destination is asked the 11 prompt patterns above (11 prompts × 17 cities = 187 prompts in this region).

oceania5 destinations · 55 prompts

Each destination is asked the 11 prompt patterns above (11 prompts × 5 cities = 55 prompts in this region).

HIGHLIGHTS

Named hotels in China — ChatGPT

ChatGPT's top picks specifically in China. Switch country at the top to filter, or clear to see worldwide.

Hotel of the Week
9 mentions
Dongcheng

Most-mentioned hotel by ChatGPT this week.

ADS

Sponsored placementsWorldwide

OpenAI is rolling out paid sponsor placements in the US, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada — testing may expand. We detect real single-advertiser ad units (organic shopping cards excluded) and pull the brand.

#AdvertiserCaptures
1Expedia275
2Booking.com43
3Luxury Escapes22
4trivago16
5Super.com14
6Radisson Hotels13
7IHG Hotels & Resorts5
8Apple Vacation5
9Ocean Signature Resorts3
10Viator3
SOURCES

Where ChatGPT pulls hotel information from

Every URL ChatGPT retrieved classified into 12 buckets: OTAs, editorial, chain sites, direct hotel pages, social, meta-search, AI tools, community, government, directory consortia, and other.

223 sources retrieved
58 actually cited
=
26.0% citation throughput
Full throughput study →
Other
25.1% (56)
Review Site
22.4% (50)
OTA & Aggregator
20.2% (45)
Social Channel
9.0% (20)
Community
7.2% (16)
Editorial
5.8% (13)
Meta-search
5.4% (12)
Chain
3.6% (8)
Independent Hotel
0.9% (2)
Government / DMO
0.4% (1)
Top categories
Other
destination.com 43% · tripexpert.com 36% · hotelscombined.com.au 21%
25.1%56
Review Site
tripadvisor.com 69% · tripadvisor.ca 16% · oyster.com 15%
22.4%50
OTA & Aggregator
booking.com 56% · expedia.com 27% · hotels.com 17%
20.2%45
Social Channel
reddit.com 98% · youtube.com 2%
9.0%20
Community
hotelierschoice.com 76% · therooftopguide.com 12% · boutiquehotel.guru 12%
7.2%16
Editorial
timeout.com 40% · thehotelguru.com 37% · cntraveler.com 23%
5.8%13
Meta-search
hotelscombined.com 62% · google.com 19% · kayak.com 19%
5.4%12
Chain
marriott.com 51% · hilton.com 28% · all.accor.com 21%
3.6%8
Independent Hotel
grandferdinand.com 40% · lasiestahotels.com 30% · vdara.mgmresorts.com 30%
0.9%2
Government / DMO
esmadrid.com 37% · newzealand.com 33% · choosechicago.com 30%
0.4%1
BRANDS

Top hotel parent groups by ChatGPT mentionsWorldwide

Each ChatGPT mention matched against Google Places, then rolled up to parent group (Marriott = Ritz-Carlton + Westin + Sheraton + EDITION + …, etc.). WoW delta vs last week. Detection via 175+ brand-domain rules.

Gainers
biggest WoW jumps
1Aman814+75%
21 Hotels915+67%
3Belmond913+44%
4Wyndham1521+40%
5Rosewood1824+33%
Losers
biggest WoW drops
1Meliá2311-52%
2Design Hotels126-50%
3Radisson3016-47%
4Langham3318-45%
5Shangri-La4127-34%
#BrandMentionsHotelsW/W
1Marriott295150 17.1%
2Accor16492 11.4%
3Four Seasons12539 19.0%
4Hilton12067 14.3%
5Hyatt11463 10.9%
6IHG9968 13.2%
7Mandarin Oriental6019 9.1%
8Kempinski339 26.9%
9Minor3118 11.4%
10Peninsula2710 3.8%
11Shangri-La2711 34.1%
12Taj2613· 0%
13Rosewood2411 33.3%
14Wyndham2118 40.0%
15Langham185 45.5%
16Oberoi165 14.3%
17Radisson1612 46.7%
18Capella156· 0%
191 Hotels155 66.7%
20Aman147 75.0%
Chain vs Independent

Of the hotels named this week: how many resolved to a chain (Marriott / Accor / …), an independent property, a vacation rental, or stayed unmatched.

Chain64.5% 33.3%
Independent29.0% 35.7%
Vacation rental0.0%
Unresolved6.5% 38.5%
DEFINITIONS

What every metric means

Plain-English definitions for each number on this page. For deeper visuals + examples, see the annual landscape report linked at the bottom.

Captures
Number of AI responses we collected this week. Target = 616 per platform (one per prompt). Less when there are upstream errors.
Web search
Did the response trigger a live web fetch? Detected from the underlying response stream’s search-result events, not the unreliable top-level flag. We do NOT force web search — this is organic model behavior.
Map widget
Did the response render a hotel-card map (the Google-Maps-style widget ChatGPT shows for travel queries)? Each card is a "map entity" with its own provider.
Sponsored placements
Paid sponsor placements. Detected from real single-advertiser ad units in the response stream. Excludes ChatGPT’s organic shopping cards (which are unpaid product carousels). US/AU/NZ/CA only as of May 2026.
Sources / response
Distinct URLs the model consulted while answering — the URLs that show up in its retrieval log, regardless of whether it cited them inline. Computed only over web-search responses (otherwise the answer is from training data, no sources to count).
Citations / response
Subset of sources that the model rendered as inline footnote pills in the answer. A source becomes a citation when the model explicitly references it.
Fanouts / response
Number of sub-queries the model spun up internally to answer the prompt (e.g. "best hotels Paris" might fan out to "hotels Paris Marais", "luxury hotels Paris", "rooftop hotels Paris", …).
Map entities / response
Hotel cards inside the map widget. Each carries a provider (Google Places, TripAdvisor, Yelp, Foursquare, SERP) and a place ID where applicable.
OTA
Online travel agency (Booking, Expedia, Hotels.com, Agoda, Trip.com, Priceline, etc.) — commission-based booking sites.
Direct
A hotel’s own website. Computed at request time by matching the cited domain against Google Places.
Chain
A hotel chain’s brand website (hilton.com, marriott.com, ihg.com, …). 175+ chain-domain rules.
Editorial
Travel media (Condé Nast Traveler, Time Out, Lonely Planet, Forbes Travel Guide, NYT, etc.) and city-specific travel blogs (santorinidave.com, theurbanlist.com, etc.).
Directory
Multi-property hotel consortia / brand collectives (Small Luxury Hotels of the World, Design Hotels, Preferred Hotels, Virtuoso, …). Aggregate hotels under one umbrella but aren’t a single OTA.
Review
TripAdvisor, Oyster, Yelp, Trustpilot, Holidaycheck — review-first platforms.
Want a deeper read? See the in-depth annual report