AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Malta in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 115 of 233 · rank 75 among country destinations

AI models put Malta in their top 10 recommendations in 1.0% of answers, rank 115 overall. It does best when the question specifies climate as mild weather: 7.3%, +6.3 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +0.8 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Malta 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	1.2%
ChatGPT	1.8%
Gemini	0.0%
Grok	1.2%

By model

Model	Score
Claude Opus 5	0.8%
Claude Sonnet 5	1.6%
Claude Haiku 4.5	1.2%
GPT-5.6 Terra	2.0%
GPT-5.6 Luna	1.6%
Gemini 3.8 Flash	0.0%
Grok 4.6	1.2%

Web search and effort

Malta · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Malta 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	1.5%	0.6%
Normal vs lowest effort	1.0%	1.1%

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.

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Mild Weather	Low Rain	Warm Weather
Change	+6.3	+1.2	−1.0

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Digital Nomad	Relaxation	Exotic	Workcation	Cultural	Adventure
Change	+3.1	+2.6	+1.7	+1.0	+0.1	−0.5

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Requires a flight	At most two connections	Nonstop, 6–8 hours	Road trip
Change	+2.6	+2.3	−0.6	−1.0

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Couple	Family	Solo
Change	+2.1	+1.0	−0.3

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Spring	Summer	Fall	Winter
Change	+1.4	+0.6	−0.4	−0.7

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Two weeks	Weekend	One week
Change	+0.6	+0.6	−0.5

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Where should I go?	The plain question	Underrated
Change	+0.1	−1.0	−1.0

How the models wrote the name

Name	Mentions
Malta	22
Valletta	17
Gozo	4
Malta and Gozo	2
Malta (Valletta)	1
Mellieħa	1

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