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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Croatia in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 65 of 233 · rank 42 among country destinations

AI models put Croatia in their top 10 recommendations in 3.7% of answers, rank 65 overall. It does best when the question specifies season as summer: 15.6%, +12.0 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −1.1 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Croatia 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
Claude5.6%
ChatGPT4.8%
Gemini0.4%
Grok4.0%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 52.0%
Claude Sonnet 59.5%
Claude Haiku 4.55.2%
GPT-5.6 Terra5.2%
GPT-5.6 Luna4.4%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.4%
Grok 4.64.0%

Web search and effort

Croatia · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Croatia 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 off3.1%4.2%
Normal vs lowest effort2.6%4.8%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Croatia made the top 10 at least once for 4 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.

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SummerFallSpringWinter
Change+12.0−0.8−1.5−3.7

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Digital NomadWorkcationExoticRelaxationCulturalAdventure
Change+12.0+9.9+0.1−0.7−2.8−3.1

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne weekWeekend
Change+2.7−0.3−1.0

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain questionOverrated
Change+0.3−2.0−3.7

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CoupleFamilySolo
Change+0.2−2.1−2.9

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Low RainMild WeatherCool WeatherWarm Weather
Change0.0−2.3−2.4−2.5

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Requires a flightNonstop, 6–8 hoursAt most two connectionsRoad trip
Change−1.1−1.6−1.6−3.3

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Croatia49
Dubrovnik43
Split34
Istria10
Dalmatian Coast7
Croatia (Dalmatian Coast)6
Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast4
Split and Hvar2
Adriatic Coast1
Adriatic Coastal Route1
Central Dalmatia1
Croatia (Dubrovnik, Split, Plitvice Lakes)1
Croatian Coast (Split & Hvar)1
Dalmatia1
Dubrovnik, Split & Hvar1

Croatia

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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