AI Hotel Landscape
How leading AI assistants recommend hotels — 616 prompts across 56 destinations, refreshed every Monday.
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The 616 prompts we ask Gemini 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.
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
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
europe17 destinations · 187 prompts
oceania5 destinations · 55 prompts
Each destination is asked the 11 prompt patterns above (11 prompts × 5 cities = 55 prompts in this region).
Named hotels in Mexico — Gemini
Gemini's top picks specifically in Mexico. Switch country at the top to filter, or clear to see worldwide.
Most-mentioned hotel by Gemini this week.
| # | Hotel | City | Chain | Mentions | W/W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | Las Alcobas, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Mexico City | Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City | Marriott | 5 | ↑ 5 |
| 54 | Hyatt Ziva Cancun | Cancún | Hyatt | 4 | ↑ 4 |
| 135 | SLS Cancun | Cancún | — | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 119 | NIZUC Resort & Spa | Cancún | — | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 88 | Four Seasons Hotel Mexico City | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | Four Seasons | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 97 | Hotel Histórico Central | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | — | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 164 | Zócalo Central Hotel | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | — | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 278 | InterContinental Presidente | Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City | IHG | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 290 | Le Blanc Spa Resort Cancun | Cancún | — | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 334 | Secrets The Vine Cancun | Cancún | Hyatt | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 344 | Sofitel Mexico City Reforma | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | Accor | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 196 | Casa Decu | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | — | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 187 | Camino Real | Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City | — | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 388 | The St. Regis | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | Marriott | 2 | ↑ 2 |
When Gemini hands out a hotel link, where does it go?Worldwide
Every URL the AI returned for a named hotel, classified into direct (the hotel's own site), OTA (Booking / Expedia / …), chain page (marriott.com / hilton.com / …), or other. Chain folds into direct in the headline number because chain pages are still brand-controlled.
Where Gemini pulls hotel information from
Every URL Gemini retrieved classified into 12 buckets: OTAs, editorial, chain sites, direct hotel pages, social, meta-search, AI tools, community, government, directory consortia, and other.
OTA & Aggregator expedia.com 56% · booking.com 25% · hotels.com 19% | 33.0% | 32 |
Other hauteliving.com 43% · wander-mag.com 30% · dinewithjp.com 26% | 19.6% | 19 |
Editorial thehotelguru.com 50% · forbestravelguide.com 31% · tablethotels.com 20% | 13.4% | 13 |
Independent Hotel schweizerhofzermatt.ch 36% · zermatterhof.ch 36% · colonnadehotel.com 27% | 10.3% | 10 |
Social Channel youtube.com 59% · reddit.com 38% · m.youtube.com 3% | 7.2% | 7 |
Hotel Directory designhotels.com 44% · boutiquehotel.me 28% · themostperfectview.com 28% | 6.2% | 6 |
Chain marriott.com 51% · fourseasons.com 25% · all.accor.com 24% | 6.2% | 6 |
Community myboutiquehotel.com 39% · therooftopguide.com 34% · santorinidave.com 26% | 3.1% | 3 |
Meta-search kayak.com 68% · momondo.com 21% · hotelscombined.com 11% | 1.0% | 1 |
Top hotel parent groups by Gemini mentionsWorldwide
Each Gemini 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.
| 1 | Shangri-La | 23 → 32 | +39% |
| 2 | Rosewood | 9 → 12 | +33% |
| 3 | Kempinski | 14 → 18 | +29% |
| 4 | Langham | 17 → 19 | +12% |
| 5 | Mandarin Oriental | 26 → 29 | +12% |
| 1 | Wyndham | 17 → 9 | -47% |
| 2 | Taj | 22 → 18 | -18% |
| 3 | Hilton | 69 → 58 | -16% |
| 4 | Oberoi | 13 → 11 | -15% |
| 5 | Minor | 15 → 13 | -13% |
| # | Brand | Mentions | Hotels | W/W | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marriott | 197 | 130 | ↓ 5.7% | |
| 2 | Accor | 108 | 67 | ↓ 9.2% | |
| 3 | Hyatt | 85 | 44 | ↑ 10.4% | |
| 4 | Four Seasons | 69 | 34 | ↓ 1.4% | |
| 5 | IHG | 59 | 45 | ↓ 13.2% | |
| 6 | Hilton | 58 | 46 | ↓ 15.9% | |
| 7 | Shangri-La | 32 | 13 | ↑ 39.1% | |
| 8 | Mandarin Oriental | 29 | 14 | ↑ 11.5% | |
| 9 | Radisson | 21 | 16 | ↓ 8.7% | |
| 10 | Langham | 19 | 6 | ↑ 11.8% | |
| 11 | Taj | 18 | 8 | ↓ 18.2% | |
| 12 | Kempinski | 18 | 9 | ↑ 28.6% | |
| 13 | Minor | 13 | 10 | ↓ 13.3% | |
| 14 | Rosewood | 12 | 7 | ↑ 33.3% | |
| 15 | Peninsula | 12 | 6 | ↑ 9.1% | |
| 16 | Oberoi | 11 | 6 | ↓ 15.4% | |
| 17 | Capella | 10 | 5 | · 0% | |
| 18 | Belmond | 9 | 3 | · 0% | |
| 19 | Wyndham | 9 | 9 | ↓ 47.1% | |
| 20 | 1 Hotels | 9 | 4 | ↑ 12.5% |
Of the hotels named this week: how many resolved to a chain (Marriott / Accor / …), an independent property, a vacation rental, or stayed unmatched.
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.