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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Switzerland in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 44 of 233 · rank 28 among country destinations

AI models put Switzerland in their top 10 recommendations in 6.1% of answers, rank 44 overall. It does best when the question specifies climate as cool weather: 15.8%, +9.7 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −1.1 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Switzerland 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%
ChatGPT4.2%
Gemini10.3%
Grok4.0%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 54.0%
Claude Sonnet 57.5%
Claude Haiku 4.56.8%
GPT-5.6 Terra4.8%
GPT-5.6 Luna3.6%
Gemini 3.8 Flash10.3%
Grok 4.64.0%

Web search and effort

Switzerland · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Switzerland 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 off5.6%6.7%
Normal vs lowest effort6.9%5.4%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Switzerland 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.

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Cool WeatherLow RainMild WeatherWarm Weather
Change+9.7−5.4−6.1−6.1

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SummerWinterSpringFall
Change+9.1+6.5−2.7−4.2

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne weekWeekend
Change+1.7+0.6−5.5

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
RelaxationAdventureCulturalExotic
Change+0.8−3.4−4.6−4.9

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain questionOverrated
Change+0.7−4.9−6.1

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
At most two connectionsNonstop, 6–8 hoursRequires a flightRoad trip
Change−0.9−3.4−5.1−5.7

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FamilyCoupleSolo
Change−2.2−4.6−4.8

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Switzerland30
Swiss Alps28
Zermatt28
Zurich23
Interlaken15
St. Moritz15
Geneva7
Lucerne7
Bernese Oberland5
Jungfrau Region3
Lake Lucerne3
Zürich3
Lake Geneva2
Lauterbrunnen2
Swiss Alps (Grand Tour of Switzerland)2

Switzerland

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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