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 Google AI Mode 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 City — Google AI Mode
Google AI Mode's top picks specifically in Mexico City, MX. Pick a different destination above, or clear to see worldwide.
Most-mentioned hotel by Google AI Mode this week.
| # | Hotel | City | Chain | Mentions | W/W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 96 | NIZUC Resort & Spa | Cancún | — | 4 | ↑ 4 |
| 82 | Hyatt Regency Mexico City | Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City | Hyatt | 4 | ↑ 4 |
| 98 | Playa Mujeres | Cancún | — | 4 | ↑ 4 |
| 71 | Four Seasons Hotel Mexico City | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | Four Seasons | 4 | ↑ 4 |
| 176 | Le Blanc Spa Resort Cancun | Cancún | — | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 175 | Las Alcobas, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Mexico City | Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City | Marriott | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 222 | W Mexico City | Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City | Marriott | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 212 | The St. Regis | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | Marriott | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 171 | JW Marriott Cancun Resort & Spa | Cancún | Marriott | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 161 | Hotel Mexico | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | — | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 234 | Anantara Kihavah Maldives Villas | — | Minor | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 245 | Casa Pepe Hostel Boutique CDMX | Mexico City | — | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 276 | Grand Fiesta Americana Coral Beach Cancún All Inclusive Spa & Resort | Cancún | — | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 288 | Hotel Condesa | Benito Juarez, Mexico City | — | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 342 | Live Aqua Cancún | Cancún | — | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 318 | Hyatt Ziva Cancun | Cancún | Hyatt | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 357 | Mía Cancun | Cancún | — | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 379 | Renaissance Cancun Resort & Marina | Cancún | Marriott | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 275 | Gran Hotel Ciudad de México | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | — | 2 | ↑ 2 |
When Google AI Mode 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 Google AI Mode pulls hotel information from
Every URL Google AI Mode cited classified into 12 buckets: OTAs, editorial, chain sites, direct hotel pages, social, meta-search, AI tools, community, government, directory consortia, and other.
Meta-search google.com 100% · trivago.com 0% · hotelscombined.com 0% | 69.9% | 432 |
OTA & Aggregator expedia.com 44% · agoda.com 37% · booking.com 19% | 15.2% | 94 |
Other foratravel.com 38% · cozycozy.com 37% · loveholidays.com 25% | 9.1% | 56 |
Editorial thehotelguru.com 58% · telegraph.co.uk 23% · cntraveler.com 20% | 2.3% | 14 |
Independent Hotel dayuse.com 35% · treebo.com 35% · sherao.qa 29% | 1.6% | 10 |
Chain all.accor.com 39% · marriott.com 31% · hilton.com 29% | 1.0% | 6 |
Social Channel reddit.com 46% · instagram.com 31% · facebook.com 23% | 0.6% | 4 |
Community myboutiquehotel.com 41% · travelmyth.co.uk 33% · hostelworld.com 26% | 0.2% | 1 |
Top hotel parent groups by Google AI Mode mentionsWorldwide
Each Google AI Mode 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 | 27 → 33 | +22% |
| 2 | Langham | 27 → 31 | +15% |
| 3 | Taj | 19 → 21 | +11% |
| 4 | Kempinski | 22 → 24 | +9% |
| 1 | 1 Hotels | 15 → 8 | -47% |
| 2 | Wyndham | 12 → 7 | -42% |
| 3 | Rosewood | 25 → 16 | -36% |
| 4 | Rocco Forte | 12 → 8 | -33% |
| 5 | Capella | 14 → 10 | -29% |
| # | Brand | Mentions | Hotels | W/W | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marriott | 231 | 132 | ↓ 6.5% | |
| 2 | Accor | 110 | 70 | ↓ 6.8% | |
| 3 | Four Seasons | 98 | 32 | ↓ 8.4% | |
| 4 | Hyatt | 85 | 48 | ↓ 15.0% | |
| 5 | Hilton | 63 | 39 | ↓ 16.0% | |
| 6 | IHG | 49 | 35 | ↓ 16.9% | |
| 7 | Mandarin Oriental | 37 | 16 | ↑ 2.8% | |
| 8 | Shangri-La | 33 | 16 | ↑ 22.2% | |
| 9 | Langham | 31 | 8 | ↑ 14.8% | |
| 10 | Kempinski | 24 | 7 | ↑ 9.1% | |
| 11 | Minor | 23 | 13 | ↓ 8.0% | |
| 12 | Peninsula | 22 | 7 | ↑ 4.8% | |
| 13 | Taj | 21 | 7 | ↑ 10.5% | |
| 14 | Radisson | 17 | 13 | ↓ 26.1% | |
| 15 | Rosewood | 16 | 6 | ↓ 36.0% | |
| 16 | Belmond | 13 | 4 | · 0% | |
| 17 | Oberoi | 12 | 3 | ↓ 7.7% | |
| 18 | Capella | 10 | 4 | ↓ 28.6% | |
| 19 | Meliá | 9 | 8 | ↓ 10.0% | |
| 20 | 1 Hotels | 8 | 3 | ↓ 46.7% |
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.