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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Lake Tahoe, USA in AI travel recommendations

US region · overall rank 107 of 233 · rank 4 among US region destinations

AI models put Lake Tahoe, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 1.1% of answers, rank 107 overall. It does best when the question specifies trip length as weekend: 4.7%, +3.6 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores 0.0 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Lake Tahoe, USA 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
Claude3.2%
ChatGPT1.4%
Gemini0.0%
Grok0.0%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 50.8%
Claude Sonnet 52.8%
Claude Haiku 4.56.0%
GPT-5.6 Terra2.0%
GPT-5.6 Luna0.8%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.0%
Grok 4.60.0%

Web search and effort

Lake Tahoe, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Lake Tahoe, 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 off1.2%1.1%
Normal vs lowest effort1.1%1.2%

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.

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WeekendOne weekTwo weeks
Change+3.6−0.2−0.5

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SummerWinterFallSpring
Change+2.4+0.8+0.1−0.3

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
RelaxationExotic
Change+0.9−1.1

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Cool WeatherLow Rain
Change+0.3−0.4

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain question
Change+0.1−1.1

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Family
Change0.0

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
At most two connectionsRoad trip
Change−0.3−0.3

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Lake Tahoe38
Lake Tahoe area2
Lake Tahoe Region1
Nevada High Desert & Lake Tahoe Loop1
Reno-Tahoe area1

Lake Tahoe, 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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