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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Peru in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 18 of 233 · rank 15 among country destinations

AI models put Peru in their top 10 recommendations in 13.9% of answers, rank 18 overall. It does best when the question specifies transport as nonstop, 6–8 hours: 35.6%, +21.6 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −0.1 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Peru 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
Claude18.0%
ChatGPT9.5%
Gemini17.1%
Grok11.1%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 519.8%
Claude Sonnet 58.7%
Claude Haiku 4.525.4%
GPT-5.6 Terra6.8%
GPT-5.6 Luna12.3%
Gemini 3.8 Flash17.1%
Grok 4.611.1%

Web search and effort

Peru · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Peru 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 off13.9%14.0%
Normal vs lowest effort15.6%12.3%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Peru made the top 10 at least once for 17 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 40.0% 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.

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Nonstop, 6–8 hoursAt most two connectionsRequires a flight
Change+21.6−3.5−4.7

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
AdventureExoticCulturalRelaxation
Change+13.9+9.6+5.7−13.9

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Low RainWarm WeatherMild WeatherCool Weather
Change+11.6+8.7−7.5−8.5

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne weekWeekend
Change+8.3−3.2−7.8

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
The plain questionWhere should I go?UnderratedOverrated
Change+6.3−0.1−11.8−13.9

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CoupleSoloFamily
Change+2.3−1.6−2.5

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SpringFallSummerWinter
Change+1.9+0.4−4.8−5.5

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Lima131
Peru111
Cusco59
Machu Picchu30
Cusco and the Sacred Valley15
Arequipa4
Cusco and Machu Picchu3
Cusco and Sacred Valley3
Ica3
Cusco & Sacred Valley2
Cusco & the Sacred Valley2
Cusco/Machu Picchu2
Huacachina2
Inca Trail2
Lima and the Sacred Valley2

Peru

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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