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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Oman in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 58 of 233 · rank 36 among country destinations

AI models put Oman in their top 10 recommendations in 4.4% of answers, rank 58 overall. It does best when the question specifies how it's asked as underrated: 21.9%, +17.4 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 Oman 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
Claude2.6%
ChatGPT7.1%
Gemini6.3%
Grok1.6%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 57.1%
Claude Sonnet 50.4%
Claude Haiku 4.50.4%
GPT-5.6 Terra5.6%
GPT-5.6 Luna8.7%
Gemini 3.8 Flash6.3%
Grok 4.61.6%

Web search and effort

Oman · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Oman 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 off4.1%4.8%
Normal vs lowest effort4.7%4.1%

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.

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
UnderratedWhere should I go?
Change+17.4+0.2

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
ExoticAdventureRelaxationCultural
Change+14.1+7.6+1.1+0.6

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Low RainMild WeatherWarm WeatherCool Weather
Change+13.4+4.4+3.9−4.4

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Requires a flightRoad tripAt most two connections
Change+9.6+6.2+5.5

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WinterSpringFallSummer
Change+7.8+1.0−1.9−4.0

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CoupleSoloFamily
Change+6.4+5.9+0.4

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne weekWeekend
Change+6.4+0.2−4.1

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Oman61
Muscat43
Musandam Peninsula2
Nizwa2
Al Hajar Mountains1
Jebel Akhdar and Wahiba Sands1
Muscat and Nizwa1
Muscat and Oman’s interior1
Northern Oman1
Oman’s northern coast1
Salalah1
Southern Oman1

Oman

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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