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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Grand Circle (Utah and Arizona national parks), USA in AI travel recommendations

US region · overall rank 145 of 233 · rank 8 among US region destinations

AI models put Grand Circle (Utah and Arizona national parks), USA in their top 10 recommendations in 0.4% of answers, rank 145 overall. It does best when the question specifies transport as road trip: 2.9%, +2.5 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −0.1 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Grand Circle (Utah and Arizona national parks), USA in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.

By platform

PlatformScore
Claude0.8%
ChatGPT0.8%
Gemini0.0%
Grok0.0%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 50.0%
Claude Sonnet 51.2%
Claude Haiku 4.51.2%
GPT-5.6 Terra0.8%
GPT-5.6 Luna0.8%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.0%
Grok 4.60.0%

Web search and effort

Grand Circle (Utah and Arizona national parks), USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Grand Circle (Utah and Arizona national parks), USA 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%0.5%
Normal vs lowest effort0.4%0.4%

The repeated baseline question never put this destination in its top 10, so it has no repeat figure.

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
Road tripRequires a flight
Change+2.5+0.5

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Low Rain
Change+1.5

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeks
Change+0.9

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
RelaxationAdventure
Change+0.6+0.5

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FallSpringSummer
Change+0.5+0.5−0.4

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FamilySolo
Change+0.4+0.3

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain question
Change0.0−0.4

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Utah/Arizona National Parks3
Arizona & Utah1
Arizona and southern Utah1
Desert Southwest Loop1
Grand Canyon & Zion Southwest Loop1
Grand Canyon and Utah's Mighty 5 National Parks Loop1
Grand Circle1
Grand Circle national parks1
Grand Circle of Southern Utah and Northern Arizona1
Grand Circle Road Trip1
National Parks Road Trip, Utah/Arizona1
Sedona & the American Southwest (Arizona/Utah national parks)1
Southwest National Parks1
Southwest National Parks Loop1
Southwest USA Road Trip1

Grand Circle (Utah and Arizona national parks), USA

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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