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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Great Smoky Mountains, USA in AI travel recommendations

US region · overall rank 92 of 233 · rank 1 among US region destinations

AI models put Great Smoky Mountains, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 1.7% of answers, rank 92 overall. It does best when the question specifies season as fall: 10.2%, +8.4 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +1.9 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Great Smoky Mountains, USA 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
Claude1.2%
ChatGPT4.2%
Gemini0.0%
Grok1.6%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 50.0%
Claude Sonnet 50.8%
Claude Haiku 4.52.8%
GPT-5.6 Terra6.3%
GPT-5.6 Luna2.0%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.0%
Grok 4.61.6%

Web search and effort

Great Smoky Mountains, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Great Smoky Mountains, 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 off2.7%0.8%
Normal vs lowest effort1.6%1.8%

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.

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FallSpringSummer
Change+8.4+0.2−1.7

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WeekendOne weekTwo weeks
Change+1.6+0.7−0.6

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain question
Change+0.2−1.7

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Road trip
Change−1.7

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Low Rain
Change−1.7

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Relaxation
Change−1.7

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Family
Change−1.7

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Great Smoky Mountains National Park36
Great Smoky Mountains13
Great Smoky Mountains and Asheville1
Great Smoky Mountains Loop1

Great Smoky Mountains, 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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