AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Nepal in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 91 of 233 · rank 61 among country destinations

AI models put Nepal in their top 10 recommendations in 1.8% of answers, rank 91 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel style as adventure: 15.4%, +13.7 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −0.6 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Nepal 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	2.5%
ChatGPT	1.4%
Gemini	2.0%
Grok	1.2%

By model

Model	Score
Claude Opus 5	2.8%
Claude Sonnet 5	1.6%
Claude Haiku 4.5	3.2%
GPT-5.6 Terra	1.2%
GPT-5.6 Luna	1.6%
Gemini 3.8 Flash	2.0%
Grok 4.6	1.2%

Web search and effort

Nepal · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Nepal 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%	2.0%
Normal vs lowest effort	2.0%	1.5%

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
	Adventure	Exotic	Cultural
Change	+13.7	−0.1	−1.8

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Requires a flight	At most two connections
Change	+1.7	−1.8

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Low Rain	Cool Weather	Mild Weather
Change	+0.7	−0.5	−1.8

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Where should I go?	The plain question	Overrated
Change	+0.2	−1.8	−1.8

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Two weeks	Weekend	One week
Change	+0.1	−1.1	−1.8

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Fall	Spring
Change	+0.1	−0.1

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Solo	Couple
Change	+0.1	−0.9

How the models wrote the name

Name	Mentions
Nepal	18
Annapurna Circuit	3
Annapurna Region	3
Kathmandu	3
Nepal (Everest Base Camp / Annapurna region)	2
Everest Base Camp	1
Everest Base Camp region	1
Everest Base Camp Trek	1
Kathmandu with trekking routes	1
Khumbu Region	1
Mount Everest	1
Mount Everest Base Camp region	1
Nepal (Everest Base Camp)	1
Nepal Himalaya	1
Nepal Himalaya (Everest/Annapurna region)	1

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