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 — Google AI Mode
Google AI Mode's top picks specifically in Mexico. Switch country at the top to filter, or clear to see worldwide.
Most-mentioned hotel by Google AI Mode this week.
| # | Hotel | City | Chain | Mentions | W/W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | NIZUC Resort & Spa | Cancún | — | 5 | ↑ 5 |
| 64 | Hotel Histórico Central | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | — | 4 | ↑ 4 |
| 67 | Le Blanc Spa Resort Cancun | Cancún | — | 4 | ↑ 4 |
| 186 | Zócalo Central Hotel | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | — | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 123 | JW Marriott Cancun Resort & Spa | Cancún | Marriott | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 99 | Four Seasons Hotel Mexico City | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | Four Seasons | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 103 | Grand Fiesta Americana Coral Beach Cancún All Inclusive Spa & Resort | Cancún | — | 3 | ↑ 3 |
| 231 | DOWNTOWN MEXICO HOTEL | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | — | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 266 | Hampton Inn & Suites Mexico City - Centro Historico | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | Hilton | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 260 | Gran Hotel Ciudad de México | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | — | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 309 | ibis Cancun Centro | Cancún | Accor | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 308 | Hyatt Ziva Cancun | Cancún | Hyatt | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 329 | La Valise mx City, an SLH Hotel | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | — | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 399 | Sofitel Mexico City Reforma | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | Accor | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 395 | SLS Cancun | Cancún | — | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 376 | Renaissance Cancun Resort & Marina | Cancún | Marriott | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 331 | Las Alcobas, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Mexico City | Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City | Marriott | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 322 | Kempinski Hotel Cancún | Cancún | Kempinski | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 272 | Hilton Mexico City Reforma | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | Hilton | 2 | ↑ 2 |
| 388 | Secrets The Vine Cancun | Cancún | Hyatt | 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 retrieved 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 99% · kayak.com 0% · trivago.com 0% | 62.5% | 474 |
OTA & Aggregator expedia.com 43% · booking.com 29% · agoda.com 27% | 10.4% | 79 |
Other foratravel.com 42% · pleasantholidays.com 32% · skyscanner.gg 26% | 8.8% | 67 |
Editorial cntraveler.com 44% · thehotelguru.com 32% · forbestravelguide.com 23% | 7.0% | 53 |
Social Channel youtube.com 44% · reddit.com 30% · instagram.com 26% | 4.6% | 35 |
Review Site tripadvisor.com 93% · tripadvisor.co.uk 5% · tripadvisor.in 2% | 1.7% | 13 |
Independent Hotel scottdunn.com 41% · cervo.swiss 29% · chase.com 29% | 1.6% | 12 |
Community myboutiquehotel.com 50% · santorinidave.com 30% · travelmyth.co.uk 19% | 1.2% | 9 |
Hotel Directory designhotels.com 38% · hotelsforkings.com 35% · themostperfectview.com 27% | 1.1% | 8 |
Chain marriott.com 43% · all.accor.com 29% · fourseasons.com 28% | 1.1% | 8 |
AI Tool staygenie.app 96% · travelpal.ai 4% | 0.1% | 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 | Meliá | 6 → 11 | +83% |
| 2 | Wyndham | 7 → 10 | +43% |
| 3 | Accor | 100 → 105 | +5% |
| 1 | Oberoi | 12 → 8 | -33% |
| 2 | Peninsula | 13 → 10 | -23% |
| 3 | Mandarin Oriental | 37 → 29 | -22% |
| 4 | Capella | 14 → 11 | -21% |
| 5 | Shangri-La | 20 → 16 | -20% |
| # | Brand | Mentions | Hotels | W/W | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marriott | 199 | 114 | ↓ 5.2% | |
| 2 | Accor | 105 | 67 | ↑ 5.0% | |
| 3 | Hilton | 95 | 64 | · 0% | |
| 4 | Four Seasons | 71 | 30 | ↓ 11.3% | |
| 5 | Hyatt | 70 | 43 | ↓ 7.9% | |
| 6 | IHG | 67 | 42 | ↓ 1.5% | |
| 7 | Mandarin Oriental | 29 | 15 | ↓ 21.6% | |
| 8 | Radisson | 27 | 15 | · 0% | |
| 9 | Langham | 23 | 9 | ↓ 8.0% | |
| 10 | Minor | 20 | 16 | ↓ 20.0% | |
| 11 | Taj | 19 | 8 | ↓ 5.0% | |
| 12 | Kempinski | 19 | 7 | ↓ 5.0% | |
| 13 | Shangri-La | 16 | 9 | ↓ 20.0% | |
| 14 | Belmond | 14 | 4 | · 0% | |
| 15 | Rosewood | 13 | 7 | · 0% | |
| 16 | Capella | 11 | 6 | ↓ 21.4% | |
| 17 | Meliá | 11 | 7 | ↑ 83.3% | |
| 18 | Wyndham | 10 | 7 | ↑ 42.9% | |
| 19 | Peninsula | 10 | 5 | ↓ 23.1% | |
| 20 | 1 Hotels | 8 | 6 | ↓ 20.0% |
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.