country · overall rank 31 of 233 · rank 23 among country destinations
AI models put South Africa in their top 10 recommendations in 9.2% of answers, rank 31 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel style as workcation: 31.3%, +22.1 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −3.1 points against web search off.
The score is the share of answers that recommend South Africa in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.
South Africa 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
7.6%
10.7%
Normal vs lowest effort
9.5%
8.8%
The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. South Africa made the top 10 at least once for 20 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 38.0% 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.
Travel style
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Workcation
Digital Nomad
Relaxation
Exotic
Cultural
Adventure
Change
+22.1
+3.3
−3.4
−4.2
−4.6
−4.8
How it's asked
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
The plain question
Where should I go?
Change
+15.0
−1.0
Trip length
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeks
One week
Weekend
Change
+7.3
−7.0
−8.9
Transport
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Requires a flight
At most two connections
Road trip
Change
+6.1
+2.5
−0.4
Season
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Winter
Fall
Spring
Summer
Change
+5.8
−4.8
−6.9
−8.9
Travel party
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Couple
Solo
Family
Change
+2.0
−4.6
−5.1
Climate
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Mild Weather
Warm Weather
Low Rain
Cool Weather
Change
+0.7
−0.5
−4.1
−8.5
How the models wrote the name
Name
Mentions
Cape Town
206
South Africa
71
Garden Route
18
Cape Town and the Garden Route
5
Western Cape
4
Cape Town & the Garden Route
3
Cape Town and the Western Cape
3
Cape Town and the Winelands
3
Cape Town & Winelands
2
Kruger National Park
2
Cape Town & Garden Route
1
Cape Town and Kruger National Park
1
Cape Town and South Africa
1
Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula
1
Cape Town to Garden Route
1
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