AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Lao People's Democratic Republic in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 129 of 233 · rank 86 among country destinations

AI models put Lao People's Democratic Republic in their top 10 recommendations in 0.7% of answers, rank 129 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel style as exotic: 4.6%, +3.9 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 Lao People's Democratic Republic in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.

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By platform

Platform	Score
Claude	0.7%
ChatGPT	0.2%
Gemini	1.2%
Grok	0.8%

By model

Model	Score
Claude Opus 5	0.4%
Claude Sonnet 5	1.6%
Claude Haiku 4.5	0.0%
GPT-5.6 Terra	0.4%
GPT-5.6 Luna	0.0%
Gemini 3.8 Flash	1.2%
Grok 4.6	0.8%

Web search and effort

Lao People's Democratic Republic · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Lao People's Democratic Republic with web search on and off, and at each model's lowest and normal effort setting.

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Setting	Search on / normal effort	Search off / lowest effort
Web search on vs off	0.7%	0.8%
Normal vs lowest effort	0.7%	0.7%

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.

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Exotic	Relaxation	Cultural
Change	+3.9	+2.4	−0.7

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	At most two connections	Requires a flight
Change	+2.4	−0.4

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Low Rain	Cool Weather	Warm Weather
Change	+2.4	−0.3	−0.7

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Underrated	Where should I go?
Change	+2.4	0.0

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Solo	Couple	Family
Change	+1.6	−0.4	−0.7

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Winter	Fall
Change	+1.2	−0.5

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Two weeks	Weekend
Change	+0.7	−0.5

How the models wrote the name

Name	Mentions
Luang Prabang	19
Laos	8

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