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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Norway in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 20 of 233 · rank 16 among country destinations

AI models put Norway in their top 10 recommendations in 11.5% of answers, rank 20 overall. It does best when the question specifies season as summer: 43.9%, +32.4 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −1.4 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Norway 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
Claude11.4%
ChatGPT15.5%
Gemini11.5%
Grok7.5%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 513.5%
Claude Sonnet 513.1%
Claude Haiku 4.57.5%
GPT-5.6 Terra14.3%
GPT-5.6 Luna16.7%
Gemini 3.8 Flash11.5%
Grok 4.67.5%

Web search and effort

Norway · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Norway 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 off10.8%12.2%
Normal vs lowest effort11.3%11.7%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Norway made the top 10 at least once for 10 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 38.0% 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.

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SummerWinterFallSpring
Change+32.4−2.5−8.3−10.8

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Cool WeatherMild Weather
Change+29.2−2.1

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
AdventureCulturalExoticRelaxation
Change+12.8−3.4−5.0−10.1

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Road tripRequires a flightAt most two connectionsNonstop, 6–8 hours
Change+7.9+1.2−10.4−11.2

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne weekWeekend
Change+3.4−2.7−9.8

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SoloFamilyCouple
Change+3.0−3.7−9.1

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain question
Change+0.5−1.1

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Norway72
Bergen46
Tromsø39
Lofoten Islands32
Oslo30
Svalbard20
Norwegian Fjords11
Western Norway7
Western Fjords5
Norway’s Fjords4
Fjord Norway3
Norwegian fjords and Lofoten3
Western Norway (Bergen/Ålesund fjords)3
Bergen and the Norwegian Fjords2
Geirangerfjord2

Norway

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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