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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

French Polynesia in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 61 of 233 · rank 39 among country destinations

AI models put French Polynesia in their top 10 recommendations in 4.2% of answers, rank 61 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel party as couple: 15.6%, +11.4 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 French Polynesia 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
Claude4.0%
ChatGPT3.8%
Gemini5.2%
Grok4.0%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 54.4%
Claude Sonnet 54.0%
Claude Haiku 4.53.6%
GPT-5.6 Terra3.6%
GPT-5.6 Luna4.0%
Gemini 3.8 Flash5.2%
Grok 4.64.0%

Web search and effort

French Polynesia · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

French Polynesia 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 off3.9%4.5%
Normal vs lowest effort4.9%3.5%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. French Polynesia made the top 10 at least once for 3 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.

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CoupleSoloFamily
Change+11.4+2.5+0.9

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm WeatherLow RainMild Weather
Change+11.0−2.7−3.9

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
ExoticRelaxationAdventure
Change+9.9+3.6+2.2

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Nonstop, 6–8 hoursAt most two connectionsRequires a flight
Change+9.6−1.4−4.2

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SpringWinterSummerFall
Change+1.8−1.1−1.6−3.4

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne weekWeekend
Change+0.7−1.8−2.1

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain questionOverrated
Change+0.4−3.0−4.2

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Bora Bora55
Tahiti18
Papeete12
French Polynesia6
Papeete, Tahiti6
Tahiti (Papeete)2
French Polynesia (Tahiti and islands)1
French Polynesia (Tahiti, Bora Bora)1
Moorea1
Moorea and Bora Bora1
Society Islands1
Tahiti and Moorea1

French Polynesia

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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