AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Spain in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 3 of 233 · rank 3 among country destinations

AI models put Spain in their top 10 recommendations in 37.1% of answers, rank 3 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel style as workcation: 93.8%, +56.6 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 Spain 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	34.5%
ChatGPT	36.5%
Gemini	42.5%
Grok	34.9%

By model

Model	Score
Claude Opus 5	41.7%
Claude Sonnet 5	29.4%
Claude Haiku 4.5	32.5%
GPT-5.6 Terra	33.7%
GPT-5.6 Luna	39.3%
Gemini 3.8 Flash	42.5%
Grok 4.6	34.9%

Web search and effort

Spain · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Spain 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	37.1%	37.1%
Normal vs lowest effort	37.9%	36.3%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Spain made the top 10 at least once for 22 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 69.1% 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	Cultural	Relaxation	Exotic	Adventure
Change	+56.6	+40.0	+7.5	+6.6	−5.2	−14.2

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Mild Weather	Low Rain	Warm Weather	Cool Weather
Change	+31.5	+12.2	−10.6	−17.1

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Nonstop, 6–8 hours	At most two connections	Requires a flight	Road trip
Change	+30.6	+8.4	+3.7	−8.4

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	The plain question	Where should I go?	Underrated	Overrated
Change	+22.1	−1.0	−19.4	−37.1

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Couple	Solo	Family
Change	+17.2	+11.2	−19.7

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Spring	Fall	Summer	Winter
Change	+14.8	−3.5	−7.3	−9.1

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	One week	Two weeks	Weekend
Change	+9.1	+3.0	−19.1

How the models wrote the name

Name	Mentions
Barcelona	233
Madrid	115
Seville	94
Andalusia	75
Spain	74
Tenerife	62
Canary Islands	54
Cádiz	45
Málaga	40
Mallorca	38
Valencia	37
Lanzarote	25
Tenerife, Canary Islands	19
Fuerteventura	15
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	15

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