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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Guatemala in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 93 of 233 · rank 62 among country destinations

AI models put Guatemala in their top 10 recommendations in 1.7% of answers, rank 93 overall. It does best when the question specifies transport as requires a flight: 10.4%, +8.8 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −1.2 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Guatemala 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
Claude1.7%
ChatGPT1.4%
Gemini2.4%
Grok1.2%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 52.8%
Claude Sonnet 50.8%
Claude Haiku 4.51.6%
GPT-5.6 Terra1.2%
GPT-5.6 Luna1.6%
Gemini 3.8 Flash2.4%
Grok 4.61.2%

Web search and effort

Guatemala · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Guatemala 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 off1.1%2.3%
Normal vs lowest effort1.9%1.5%

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
Requires a flightAt most two connectionsNonstop, 6–8 hoursRoad trip
Change+8.8+3.0−0.5−1.3

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm WeatherCool WeatherLow RainMild Weather
Change+7.3+1.9+1.3−0.4

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WinterFallSpring
Change+5.0+1.7−1.2

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CulturalAdventureExoticRelaxation
Change+4.7+2.1+1.9+0.9

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FamilyCoupleSolo
Change+4.7+2.7+0.8

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksWeekendOne week
Change+3.9+0.6−1.2

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?
Change+0.2

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Antigua25
Guatemala16
Antigua Guatemala6
Antigua and Lake Atitlán3
Antigua & Lake Atitlán1
Antigua & Tikal1
Guatemala City1
Guatemala City/Antigua1
Lake Atitlán1
Lake Atitlán and Antigua1

Guatemala

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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