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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Malaysia in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 118 of 233 · rank 78 among country destinations

AI models put Malaysia in their top 10 recommendations in 1.0% of answers, rank 118 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel style as digital nomad: 38.5%, +37.6 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −0.7 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Malaysia 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
Claude1.1%
ChatGPT1.6%
Gemini0.0%
Grok1.2%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 50.8%
Claude Sonnet 51.6%
Claude Haiku 4.50.8%
GPT-5.6 Terra1.2%
GPT-5.6 Luna2.0%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.0%
Grok 4.61.2%

Web search and effort

Malaysia · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Malaysia 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 off0.6%1.3%
Normal vs lowest effort0.8%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.

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Digital NomadWorkcationAdventureCulturalExotic
Change+37.6+1.1+0.1−0.1−1.0

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
UnderratedWhere should I go?
Change+4.30.0

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Requires a flightAt most two connections
Change+0.4−0.6

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm WeatherLow Rain
Change+0.2−0.6

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne week
Change−0.2−0.8

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FamilyCoupleSolo
Change−0.2−0.7−0.7

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WinterSpringFall
Change−0.3−0.5−0.7

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Kuala Lumpur22
Borneo4
George Town3
Borneo (Sabah)1
Borneo (Sabah/Sarawak, Malaysia)1
Borneo’s Danum Valley1
Kuching1
Langkawi1
Malaysia1
Malaysia (Borneo)1
Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)1
Penang1
Sabah1
Sarawak1

Malaysia

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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