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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

France in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 17 of 233 · rank 14 among country destinations

AI models put France in their top 10 recommendations in 14.9% of answers, rank 17 overall. It does best when the question specifies transport as nonstop, 6–8 hours: 46.3%, +31.4 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −9.2 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend France in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.

This destination in the other indexes: Source Control · Itinerary Share

By platform

PlatformScore
Claude13.4%
ChatGPT14.1%
Gemini12.7%
Grok19.4%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 59.5%
Claude Sonnet 513.1%
Claude Haiku 4.517.5%
GPT-5.6 Terra16.7%
GPT-5.6 Luna11.5%
Gemini 3.8 Flash12.7%
Grok 4.619.4%

Web search and effort

France · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

France 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 off10.3%19.5%
Normal vs lowest effort15.8%14.0%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. France made the top 10 at least once for 9 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 35.6% 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.

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Nonstop, 6–8 hoursRequires a flightAt most two connectionsRoad trip
Change+31.4−1.2−6.1−14.1

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CoupleSoloFamily
Change+19.8−2.3−11.1

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CulturalRelaxationWorkcationExoticAdventure
Change+16.6+3.5−10.7−12.2−13.5

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
One weekTwo weeksWeekend
Change+9.1−4.7−8.0

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Cool WeatherLow RainMild WeatherWarm Weather
Change+6.8−2.6−5.5−6.3

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SpringFallSummerWinter
Change+1.7−0.9−1.9−2.7

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain questionUnderratedOverrated
Change+0.7−2.6−9.7−14.9

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Paris229
Nice37
Provence34
France20
French Riviera7
Marseille5
Réunion4
Alpe d'Huez3
Chamonix3
Provence & the French Riviera3
Toulouse3
Bora Bora2
Corsica2
Les Contamines-Montjoie2
Loire Valley2

France

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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