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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Italy in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 6 of 233 · rank 6 among country destinations

AI models put Italy in their top 10 recommendations in 28.9% of answers, rank 6 overall. It does best when the question specifies how it's asked as the plain question: 44.6%, +15.7 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −13.6 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Italy 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
Claude31.8%
ChatGPT31.8%
Gemini27.4%
Grok24.6%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 528.6%
Claude Sonnet 534.5%
Claude Haiku 4.532.1%
GPT-5.6 Terra31.8%
GPT-5.6 Luna31.8%
Gemini 3.8 Flash27.4%
Grok 4.624.6%

Web search and effort

Italy · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Italy 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 off22.1%35.7%
Normal vs lowest effort27.8%29.9%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Italy made the top 10 at least once for 25 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 52.8% 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
The plain questionWhere should I go?UnderratedOverrated
Change+15.7−0.9−1.8−28.9

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FallSpringSummerWinter
Change+13.9+6.8−2.8−23.1

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CoupleSoloFamily
Change+13.2−10.1−19.5

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CulturalRelaxationExoticAdventureWorkcation
Change+10.3−0.9−17.8−23.5−28.9

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Mild WeatherLow RainCool WeatherWarm Weather
Change+8.3−15.3−20.7−25.2

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
One weekTwo weeksWeekend
Change+7.9+3.8−25.6

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
At most two connectionsRequires a flightNonstop, 6–8 hoursRoad trip
Change−1.3−2.3−14.7−16.0

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Rome177
Italy110
Amalfi Coast83
Tuscany67
Dolomites61
Sicily44
Florence41
Venice32
The Dolomites28
Puglia26
Milan25
Naples22
Lake Como21
Cinque Terre8
Palermo7

Italy

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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