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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Mexico in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 4 of 233 · rank 4 among country destinations

AI models put Mexico in their top 10 recommendations in 31.9% of answers, rank 4 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel style as workcation: 97.9%, +66.1 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −5.8 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Mexico 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
Claude35.3%
ChatGPT29.0%
Gemini31.4%
Grok31.8%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 537.7%
Claude Sonnet 527.8%
Claude Haiku 4.540.5%
GPT-5.6 Terra28.6%
GPT-5.6 Luna29.4%
Gemini 3.8 Flash31.4%
Grok 4.631.8%

Web search and effort

Mexico · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Mexico 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 off28.9%34.8%
Normal vs lowest effort32.5%31.1%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Mexico made the top 10 at least once for 16 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 42.5% 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.

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WorkcationDigital NomadExoticCulturalAdventureRelaxation
Change+66.1+60.9+16.1+10.4+8.1−8.4

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
At most two connectionsRequires a flightRoad tripNonstop, 6–8 hours
Change+31.7+7.0−7.3−10.9

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WinterFallSpringSummer
Change+29.7+1.5−13.5−14.3

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm WeatherMild WeatherLow RainCool Weather
Change+22.0+17.5+5.8−20.4

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
One weekTwo weeksWeekend
Change+9.9+1.7−3.6

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FamilyCoupleSolo
Change+8.5+8.2+2.5

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?UnderratedThe plain questionOverrated
Change+1.6−5.8−10.4−31.9

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Mexico City201
Oaxaca154
Cancún77
Puerto Vallarta64
Cabo San Lucas61
Los Cabos56
Riviera Maya49
Baja California Sur46
Mexico42
Yucatán Peninsula41
Tulum39
Oaxaca City38
Cancun31
San Miguel de Allende27
Playa del Carmen20

Mexico

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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