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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

India in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 76 of 233 · rank 50 among country destinations

AI models put India in their top 10 recommendations in 2.7% of answers, rank 76 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel style as cultural: 12.9%, +10.3 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +0.6 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend India 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
Claude5.0%
ChatGPT2.2%
Gemini3.2%
Grok0.4%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 53.2%
Claude Sonnet 57.1%
Claude Haiku 4.54.8%
GPT-5.6 Terra1.6%
GPT-5.6 Luna2.8%
Gemini 3.8 Flash3.2%
Grok 4.60.4%

Web search and effort

India · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

India 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 off3.0%2.4%
Normal vs lowest effort2.6%2.8%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. India made the top 10 at least once for 4 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 35.0% 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.

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CulturalExoticRelaxationAdventure
Change+10.3+3.8−1.5−1.7

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Requires a flightAt most two connectionsRoad trip
Change+6.7−2.0−2.3

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm WeatherLow RainCool WeatherMild Weather
Change+4.1−1.0−1.9−2.4

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WinterSpringFallSummer
Change+3.5−2.0−2.2−2.7

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FamilySoloCouple
Change+3.3−1.7−2.1

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksWeekendOne week
Change+2.4−2.5−2.5

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
The plain questionWhere should I go?Underrated
Change+0.2+0.1−2.7

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
India20
Rajasthan17
Kerala14
Ladakh13
Jaipur10
Varanasi8
Goa6
Udaipur4
Jaipur, Rajasthan3
Delhi2
Pushkar2
Agra1
Agra and Delhi1
Andaman Islands1
Delhi & Agra1

India

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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