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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Barbados in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 108 of 233 · rank 71 among country destinations

AI models put Barbados in their top 10 recommendations in 1.1% of answers, rank 108 overall. It does best when the question specifies climate as warm weather: 7.0%, +5.9 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +0.3 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Barbados 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
Claude1.6%
ChatGPT1.8%
Gemini0.4%
Grok0.8%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 51.2%
Claude Sonnet 50.4%
Claude Haiku 4.53.2%
GPT-5.6 Terra1.2%
GPT-5.6 Luna2.4%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.4%
Grok 4.60.8%

Web search and effort

Barbados · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Barbados 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 off1.3%1.0%
Normal vs lowest effort1.3%1.0%

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.

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm WeatherLow RainMild Weather
Change+5.9−0.3−0.6

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WorkcationRelaxationExoticAdventureCultural
Change+5.1+0.4+0.3+0.1−1.1

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WinterSummerFallSpring
Change+0.6−0.4−0.9−0.9

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Nonstop, 6–8 hoursAt most two connectionsRoad tripRequires a flight
Change+0.5+0.1−0.5−1.1

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CoupleFamilySolo
Change+0.2−0.2−0.5

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?
Change+0.1

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne weekWeekend
Change−0.1−0.4−0.5

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Barbados46
Bridgetown3

Barbados

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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