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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Austria in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 95 of 233 · rank 64 among country destinations

AI models put Austria in their top 10 recommendations in 1.6% of answers, rank 95 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel style as cultural: 6.8%, +5.3 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −0.1 points against web search off.

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

This destination in the other indexes: Source Control

By platform

PlatformScore
Claude3.6%
ChatGPT0.8%
Gemini0.8%
Grok1.2%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 51.2%
Claude Sonnet 56.0%
Claude Haiku 4.53.6%
GPT-5.6 Terra1.2%
GPT-5.6 Luna0.4%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.8%
Grok 4.61.2%

Web search and effort

Austria · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Austria 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 off1.5%1.6%
Normal vs lowest effort1.6%1.6%

The repeated baseline question never put this destination in its top 10, so it has no repeat figure.

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.

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CulturalExoticRelaxationAdventure
Change+5.3−1.2−1.2−1.6

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Mild WeatherCool Weather
Change+3.3+0.5

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
At most two connectionsRequires a flightNonstop, 6–8 hours
Change+1.7+1.0−1.0

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SoloFamilyCouple
Change+1.5+0.1−1.3

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
One weekWeekendTwo weeks
Change+1.4−1.4−1.4

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WinterSummerFallSpring
Change+1.4+1.1+0.4−1.6

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain questionOverratedUnderrated
Change+0.2−1.6−1.6−1.6

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Vienna42
Salzburg13
Hallstatt11
Austria6
Innsbruck2
Austria (Vienna) and Czech Republic (Prague)1
Austrian Alps1
Austrian Tyrol (Salzburg region)1
Innsbruck region1
Salzburg region1
Vienna and Salzburg1

Austria

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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