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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Bhutan in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 82 of 233 · rank 54 among country destinations

AI models put Bhutan in their top 10 recommendations in 2.1% of answers, rank 82 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel style as exotic: 15.2%, +13.1 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +0.6 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Bhutan 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
Claude2.4%
ChatGPT1.8%
Gemini3.6%
Grok0.8%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 51.6%
Claude Sonnet 53.6%
Claude Haiku 4.52.0%
GPT-5.6 Terra2.0%
GPT-5.6 Luna1.6%
Gemini 3.8 Flash3.6%
Grok 4.60.8%

Web search and effort

Bhutan · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Bhutan 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 off2.4%1.9%
Normal vs lowest effort2.3%2.0%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Bhutan made the top 10 at least once for 5 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 24.0% 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.

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
ExoticAdventure
Change+13.1+0.5

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
UnderratedThe plain questionWhere should I go?
Change+4.1+3.1−0.3

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
At most two connectionsRequires a flight
Change−1.1−1.1

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FallSpring
Change−1.2−1.9

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Cool WeatherLow Rain
Change−1.3−1.8

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CoupleSolo
Change−1.5−1.9

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksWeekendOne week
Change−1.6−1.7−2.1

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Bhutan38
Paro3
Paro Valley3
Thimphu2
Bhutan (Paro/Thimphu)1
Paro and Punakha1
Punakha1

Bhutan

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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