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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Puerto Rico in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 32 of 233 · rank 24 among country destinations

AI models put Puerto Rico in their top 10 recommendations in 8.2% of answers, rank 32 overall. It does best when the question specifies season as winter: 30.6%, +22.4 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +0.2 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Puerto Rico in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.

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By platform

PlatformScore
Claude8.3%
ChatGPT7.3%
Gemini7.1%
Grok9.9%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 56.8%
Claude Sonnet 56.3%
Claude Haiku 4.511.9%
GPT-5.6 Terra10.3%
GPT-5.6 Luna4.4%
Gemini 3.8 Flash7.1%
Grok 4.69.9%

Web search and effort

Puerto Rico · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Puerto Rico 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 off8.3%8.1%
Normal vs lowest effort8.2%8.1%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Puerto Rico made the top 10 at least once for 1 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 20.0% 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
WinterSpringFallSummer
Change+22.4−2.7−5.6−5.7

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm WeatherMild WeatherLow Rain
Change+19.2+10.9−3.5

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
ExoticAdventureWorkcationCulturalRelaxationDigital Nomad
Change+12.6+5.4+4.3+0.9−4.4−8.2

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Road tripNonstop, 6–8 hoursAt most two connectionsRequires a flight
Change+9.9+3.0+0.8+0.5

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FamilyCoupleSolo
Change+7.3+7.3−3.0

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
One weekWeekendTwo weeks
Change+5.8+4.6+1.3

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain question
Change+0.9−6.9

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
San Juan125
Puerto Rico73
San Juan and Vieques3
San Juan, Puerto Rico3
San Juan and El Yunque2
Culebra1
El Yunque National Forest1
Ponce1
Puerto Rico, San Juan1
Rincón1
Ruta Panorámica1
San Juan and eastern Puerto Rico1
San Juan and El Yunque, Puerto Rico1
Southern Puerto Rico (Ponce area)1
Vieques1

Puerto Rico

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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