AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year
Saudi Arabia in AI travel recommendations
country · overall rank 125 of 233 · rank 84 among country destinations
AI models put Saudi Arabia in their top 10 recommendations in 0.8% of answers, rank 125 overall. It does best when the question specifies how it's asked as the plain question: 3.5%, +2.7 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +0.6 points against web search off.
The score is the share of answers that recommend Saudi Arabia 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 | 0.7% |
| ChatGPT | 0.6% |
| Gemini | 1.6% |
| Grok | 0.4% |
By model
| Model | Score |
|---|---|
| Claude Opus 5 | 1.2% |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | 0.4% |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0.4% |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | 1.2% |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | 0.0% |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | 1.6% |
| Grok 4.6 | 0.4% |
Web search and effort
Saudi Arabia · Edition 1, 2027 travel year
Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers
Saudi Arabia 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 | 1.1% | 0.5% |
| Normal vs lowest effort | 0.8% | 0.8% |
The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Saudi Arabia made the top 10 at least once for 6 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.
How it's asked
| The plain question | Where should I go? | |
|---|---|---|
| Change | +2.7 | −0.2 |
Travel style
| Exotic | |
|---|---|
| Change | +1.7 |
Transport
| At most two connections | |
|---|---|
| Change | +1.3 |
Climate
| Low Rain | |
|---|---|
| Change | +0.6 |
How the models wrote the name
| Name | Mentions |
|---|---|
| AlUla | 10 |
| Riyadh | 8 |
| Jeddah | 4 |
| Saudi Arabia | 2 |
| Riyadh and AlUla | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia (AlUla and Diriyah) | 1 |