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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Sri Lanka in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 75 of 233 · rank 49 among country destinations

AI models put Sri Lanka in their top 10 recommendations in 2.8% of answers, rank 75 overall. It does best when the question specifies how it's asked as underrated: 31.3%, +28.5 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +3.5 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Sri Lanka 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
Claude6.1%
ChatGPT1.8%
Gemini1.2%
Grok2.0%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 56.3%
Claude Sonnet 58.3%
Claude Haiku 4.53.6%
GPT-5.6 Terra0.8%
GPT-5.6 Luna2.8%
Gemini 3.8 Flash1.2%
Grok 4.62.0%

Web search and effort

Sri Lanka · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Sri Lanka 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 off4.5%1.0%
Normal vs lowest effort2.6%2.9%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Sri Lanka made the top 10 at least once for 4 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 35.0% 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

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
UnderratedThe plain questionWhere should I go?
Change+28.5+0.2−0.5

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Requires a flightAt most two connectionsRoad trip
Change+4.9−1.5−2.3

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm WeatherLow RainMild Weather
Change+4.2−2.4−2.4

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CulturalExoticAdventureRelaxationDigital Nomad
Change+3.8+3.1−0.5−1.7−2.8

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WinterSummerFallSpring
Change+3.3−1.5−2.2−2.5

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FamilyCoupleSolo
Change+2.7−1.7−2.5

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne week
Change+2.6−2.1

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Sri Lanka67
Pekoe Trail15
Central Highlands3
Colombo3
Galle3
Jaffna3
Sri Lanka (East Coast & Cultural Triangle)3
Bentota/Tangalle1
Central Province1
Colombo, Kandy, and Sri Lanka’s south coast1
Galle and the South Coast1
Kandy & Colombo1
Kandy & Galle1
Kandy & Sigiriya1
Sigiriya1

Sri Lanka

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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