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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Australia in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 24 of 233 · rank 19 among country destinations

AI models put Australia in their top 10 recommendations in 10.4% of answers, rank 24 overall. It does best when the question specifies how it's asked as the plain question: 61.7%, +51.3 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +1.1 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Australia 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
Claude7.1%
ChatGPT10.3%
Gemini11.5%
Grok12.7%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 516.3%
Claude Sonnet 53.2%
Claude Haiku 4.52.0%
GPT-5.6 Terra7.9%
GPT-5.6 Luna12.7%
Gemini 3.8 Flash11.5%
Grok 4.612.7%

Web search and effort

Australia · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Australia 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 off11.0%9.8%
Normal vs lowest effort11.3%9.5%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Australia made the top 10 at least once for 22 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 67.3% 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
The plain questionUnderratedWhere should I go?Overrated
Change+51.3+4.2−4.5−10.4

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
At most two connectionsRequires a flightRoad trip
Change+1.9−0.5−1.5

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm WeatherCool WeatherLow RainMild Weather
Change−3.4−5.4−6.8−7.8

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne week
Change−3.5−9.7

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
AdventureCulturalExoticRelaxationWorkcation
Change−3.8−8.3−9.2−10.4−10.4

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SoloCoupleFamily
Change−4.7−6.0−8.6

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FallWinterSummerSpring
Change−5.6−6.7−9.4−9.5

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Sydney113
Australia51
Tasmania40
Great Ocean Road17
Melbourne16
Perth14
Hobart11
Alice Springs9
Queensland9
Brisbane4
Western Australia4
Gold Coast3
Bondi Beach, Sydney2
Cairns2
Hobart, Tasmania2

Australia

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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