Skip to content
IndexesFor DMOs & tourism boardsAboutContact

AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Ireland in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 27 of 233 · rank 20 among country destinations

AI models put Ireland in their top 10 recommendations in 10.3% of answers, rank 27 overall. It does best when the question specifies climate as cool weather: 45.2%, +35.0 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +3.4 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Ireland 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

By platform

PlatformScore
Claude10.8%
ChatGPT6.3%
Gemini12.3%
Grok11.5%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 515.1%
Claude Sonnet 58.7%
Claude Haiku 4.58.7%
GPT-5.6 Terra5.6%
GPT-5.6 Luna7.1%
Gemini 3.8 Flash12.3%
Grok 4.611.5%

Web search and effort

Ireland · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Ireland with web search on and off, and at each model's lowest and normal effort setting.

Show as table
SettingSearch on / normal effortSearch off / lowest effort
Web search on vs off12.0%8.5%
Normal vs lowest effort10.1%10.4%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Ireland made the top 10 at least once for 9 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 42.2% 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.

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Cool WeatherMild WeatherLow RainWarm Weather
Change+35.0+5.4−7.5−9.2

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Nonstop, 6–8 hoursRequires a flightRoad tripAt most two connections
Change+20.1+9.4+6.6+2.3

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CulturalRelaxationAdventureExotic
Change+19.50.0−1.4−9.2

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
One weekTwo weeksWeekend
Change+13.0−5.3−9.4

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SoloFamilyCouple
Change+12.0+9.0−6.4

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SummerWinterSpringFall
Change+11.8−0.5−3.8−7.1

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
The plain questionWhere should I go?OverratedUnderrated
Change+5.2−0.1−10.3−10.3

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Dublin130
Ireland33
Wild Atlantic Way22
Adare14
Shannon13
Adare, County Limerick5
Galway5
Cork4
County Limerick4
Limerick4
Ireland (Wild Atlantic Way)3
Adare and County Limerick2
Adare Manor2
Beara Peninsula2
Blarney Castle2

Ireland

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.

Loading mentions…

Request a destination scan

One destinationReal travel questionsSources you can inspect