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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Cook Islands in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 174 of 233 · rank 118 among country destinations

AI models put Cook Islands in their top 10 recommendations in 0.1% of answers, rank 174 overall. It does best when the question specifies how it's asked as the plain question: 0.4%, +0.3 points against its overall score.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Cook Islands 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
Claude0.5%
ChatGPT0.0%
Gemini0.0%
Grok0.0%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 50.8%
Claude Sonnet 50.4%
Claude Haiku 4.50.4%
GPT-5.6 Terra0.0%
GPT-5.6 Luna0.0%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.0%
Grok 4.60.0%

Web search and effort

Cook Islands · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Cook Islands 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 off0.3%n/a
Normal vs lowest effort0.1%0.1%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Cook Islands made the top 10 at least once for 1 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 20.0% 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?
Change+0.30.0

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Relaxation
Change+0.2

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Summer
Change+0.1

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
One weekTwo weeks
Change0.00.0

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Requires a flight
Change−0.1

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Cook Islands5
Aitutaki2
Rarotonga1

Cook Islands

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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