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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Brazil in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 42 of 233 · rank 27 among country destinations

AI models put Brazil in their top 10 recommendations in 6.6% of answers, rank 42 overall. It does best when the question specifies how it's asked as the plain question: 40.4%, +33.8 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +6.3 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Brazil 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
Claude5.8%
ChatGPT3.2%
Gemini6.8%
Grok10.7%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 514.3%
Claude Sonnet 50.8%
Claude Haiku 4.52.4%
GPT-5.6 Terra1.6%
GPT-5.6 Luna4.8%
Gemini 3.8 Flash6.8%
Grok 4.610.7%

Web search and effort

Brazil · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Brazil 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 off9.8%3.4%
Normal vs lowest effort8.6%4.7%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Brazil made the top 10 at least once for 15 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 64.0% 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
The plain questionWhere should I go?UnderratedOverrated
Change+33.8−2.8−4.5−6.6

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm WeatherLow RainMild Weather
Change+1.9−6.3−6.6

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Requires a flightNonstop, 6–8 hoursAt most two connections
Change+1.4+1.0−0.5

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
ExoticDigital NomadAdventureCulturalRelaxationWorkcation
Change+0.7−0.4−3.8−5.1−6.6−6.6

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne weekWeekend
Change−1.6−3.8−6.6

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SummerSpringWinterFall
Change−2.2−2.8−3.1−6.4

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SoloFamilyCouple
Change−2.3−3.5−6.3

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Rio de Janeiro99
Fortaleza12
Brazil9
São Paulo7
Salvador6
Manaus5
Florianópolis4
Recife3
Belém2
Pantanal2
Brasília1
Brazil (multiple host cities)1
Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and host cities)1
Campinas1
Christ the Redeemer1

Brazil

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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