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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Greece in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 13 of 233 · rank 10 among country destinations

AI models put Greece in their top 10 recommendations in 17.9% of answers, rank 13 overall. It does best when the question specifies how it's asked as underrated: 46.9%, +29.0 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −3.2 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Greece 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
Claude22.8%
ChatGPT18.6%
Gemini13.5%
Grok16.7%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 517.5%
Claude Sonnet 521.8%
Claude Haiku 4.529.0%
GPT-5.6 Terra15.1%
GPT-5.6 Luna22.2%
Gemini 3.8 Flash13.5%
Grok 4.616.7%

Web search and effort

Greece · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Greece 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 off16.3%19.5%
Normal vs lowest effort17.5%18.3%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Greece made the top 10 at least once for 14 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 44.3% 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.

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
UnderratedThe plain questionWhere should I go?Overrated
Change+29.0+1.7−0.4−17.9

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CoupleSoloFamily
Change+17.8−2.4−10.3

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SpringFallSummerWinter
Change+12.1+2.3+0.5−17.9

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne weekWeekend
Change+10.5−1.7−12.8

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Mild WeatherLow RainWarm WeatherCool Weather
Change+10.4+1.6−13.9−17.1

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CulturalRelaxationAdventureExoticDigital NomadWorkcation
Change+8.9+4.2−8.0−8.3−11.6−15.8

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Requires a flightAt most two connectionsNonstop, 6–8 hoursRoad trip
Change+8.0+6.8−13.4−15.8

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Greece127
Athens98
Santorini92
Crete82
Alonnisos30
Peloponnese11
Mykonos9
Naxos6
Greek Islands4
Cyclades3
Rhodes3
Athens and the Cyclades2
Athens Riviera2
Greece (Athens, Santorini, Crete)2
Peloponnese Peninsula2

Greece

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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