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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Gulf Coast, USA in AI travel recommendations

US region · overall rank 191 of 233 · rank 15 among US region destinations

AI models put Gulf Coast, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 0.1% of answers, rank 191 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel style as exotic: 0.8%, +0.8 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 Gulf Coast, USA in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.

By platform

PlatformScore
Claude0.3%
ChatGPT0.0%
Gemini0.0%
Grok0.0%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 50.0%
Claude Sonnet 50.4%
Claude Haiku 4.50.4%
GPT-5.6 Terra0.0%
GPT-5.6 Luna0.0%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.0%
Grok 4.60.0%

Web search and effort

Gulf Coast, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Gulf Coast, 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 off0.1%0.0%
Normal vs lowest effortn/a0.1%

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 trip
Change+0.8

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
ExoticCultural
Change+0.8−0.1

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Mild WeatherWarm Weather
Change+0.6−0.1

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CoupleSolo
Change+0.5−0.1

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WinterSpring
Change+0.3−0.1

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
One weekWeekend
Change+0.3−0.1

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?
Change0.0

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Mobile to Pensacola1
New Orleans and Gulf Coast1
New Orleans to Dallas1

Gulf Coast, 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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