AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Panama in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 68 of 233 · rank 44 among country destinations

AI models put Panama in their top 10 recommendations in 3.5% of answers, rank 68 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel style as adventure: 24.8%, +21.4 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +0.4 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Panama 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	4.5%
ChatGPT	2.6%
Gemini	2.0%
Grok	4.8%

By model

Model	Score
Claude Opus 5	3.2%
Claude Sonnet 5	6.3%
Claude Haiku 4.5	4.0%
GPT-5.6 Terra	2.8%
GPT-5.6 Luna	2.4%
Gemini 3.8 Flash	2.0%
Grok 4.6	4.8%

Web search and effort

Panama · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Panama 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	3.6%	3.3%
Normal vs lowest effort	3.6%	3.3%

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	Workcation	Relaxation	Cultural	Digital Nomad
Change	+21.4	+5.7	−1.4	−2.8	−3.2	−3.5

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Nonstop, 6–8 hours	At most two connections	Requires a flight
Change	+20.2	+2.1	−3.1

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Warm Weather	Mild Weather	Low Rain
Change	+18.6	+5.0	−3.5

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Family	Solo	Couple
Change	+11.3	+2.3	+1.9

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Winter	Spring	Fall	Summer
Change	+8.3	+1.6	+0.2	−2.2

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Two weeks	One week	Weekend
Change	+3.3	+2.4	+1.6

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Where should I go?	The plain question
Change	+0.4	−3.5

How the models wrote the name

Name	Mentions
Panama City	48
Panama	35
Boquete	3
Bocas del Toro	2
Panama City & Bocas del Toro	2
Panama City and Gamboa	2
Panama City and the Pacific coast	2
Pacific Coast of Panama	1
Panama (Bocas del Toro and interior)	1
Panama (Panama City & Bocas del Toro)	1
Panama City & the Panama Canal	1
Panama City and Bocas del Toro	1

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