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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Albania in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 62 of 233 · rank 40 among country destinations

AI models put Albania in their top 10 recommendations in 4.0% of answers, rank 62 overall. It does best when the question specifies how it's asked as underrated: 28.1%, +24.1 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +6.7 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Albania in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.

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By platform

PlatformScore
Claude2.5%
ChatGPT1.2%
Gemini2.4%
Grok9.9%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 51.6%
Claude Sonnet 52.4%
Claude Haiku 4.53.6%
GPT-5.6 Terra0.8%
GPT-5.6 Luna1.6%
Gemini 3.8 Flash2.4%
Grok 4.69.9%

Web search and effort

Albania · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Albania with web search on and off, and at each model's lowest and normal effort setting.

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SettingSearch on / normal effortSearch off / lowest effort
Web search on vs off7.4%0.6%
Normal vs lowest effort2.8%5.2%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Albania made the top 10 at least once for 10 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 52.0% of the repeats on average.

By kind of question

How much higher or lower the score is on questions that ask for each option, in percentage points against the overall score. Outlined cells are below the overall score.

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
UnderratedThe plain questionWhere should I go?
Change+24.1+17.5−1.9

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Requires a flightAt most two connections
Change+0.5−3.0

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SummerFallSpring
Change−0.9−4.0−4.0

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne weekWeekend
Change−1.8−2.3−4.0

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
RelaxationAdventureCulturalDigital NomadExotic
Change−1.9−3.0−3.7−4.0−4.0

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm WeatherCool Weather
Change−3.1−4.0

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Couple
Change−4.0

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Albania31
Albanian Riviera24
Theth6
Tirana5
Gjirokastër3
Berat & Gjirokastra2
Albania (Tirana & the Riviera)1
Albania's Riviera1
Albania's Riviera (Himara/Dhermi)1
Berat1
Dhërmi1
Korçë1
The Albanian Riviera1
Theth and the Accursed Mountains1

Albania

Most questions went to each model at each setting only once, and a model read the answers, so a reading can be wrong. The methodology has the details.

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