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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Tennessee, USA in AI travel recommendations

US state · overall rank 48 of 233 · rank 19 among US state destinations

AI models put Tennessee, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 5.6% of answers, rank 48 overall. It does best when the question specifies season as fall: 19.7%, +14.1 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +3.9 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Tennessee, USA in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.

This destination in the other indexes: Source Control

By platform

PlatformScore
Claude5.6%
ChatGPT5.8%
Gemini1.6%
Grok9.5%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 54.0%
Claude Sonnet 55.2%
Claude Haiku 4.57.5%
GPT-5.6 Terra7.5%
GPT-5.6 Luna4.0%
Gemini 3.8 Flash1.6%
Grok 4.69.5%

Web search and effort

Tennessee, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Tennessee, USA 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 off7.5%3.7%
Normal vs lowest effort5.8%5.4%

The repeated baseline question never put this destination in its top 10, so it has no repeat figure.

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.

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FallSpringSummerWinter
Change+14.1+3.6−4.3−5.4

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WeekendOne weekTwo weeks
Change+9.1−0.2−1.9

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Road tripAt most two connectionsRequires a flight
Change+3.8−4.6−5.6

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain questionUnderrated
Change+0.7−5.6−5.6

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm WeatherCool WeatherLow RainMild Weather
Change−3.5−4.4−5.6−5.6

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CulturalRelaxationExotic
Change−3.5−4.6−5.6

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SoloFamilyCouple
Change−3.8−4.8−5.6

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Nashville31
Great Smoky Mountains National Park24
Gatlinburg18
Memphis6
Great Smoky Mountains5
Chattanooga3
Gatlinburg/Great Smoky Mountains2
Great Smoky Mountains (Gatlinburg)2
Pigeon Forge2
Memphis to Nashville1
Natchez Trace Parkway1

Tennessee, USA

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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