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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Thailand in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 21 of 233 · rank 17 among country destinations

AI models put Thailand in their top 10 recommendations in 11.5% of answers, rank 21 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel style as digital nomad: 100.0%, +88.5 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 Thailand 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 · Itinerary Share

By platform

PlatformScore
Claude17.5%
ChatGPT10.1%
Gemini10.7%
Grok7.5%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 510.3%
Claude Sonnet 515.9%
Claude Haiku 4.526.2%
GPT-5.6 Terra8.3%
GPT-5.6 Luna11.9%
Gemini 3.8 Flash10.7%
Grok 4.67.5%

Web search and effort

Thailand · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Thailand 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 off11.5%11.4%
Normal vs lowest effort10.6%12.4%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Thailand made the top 10 at least once for 6 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 60.0% 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
Digital NomadWorkcationCulturalRelaxationAdventureExotic
Change+88.5+61.5+3.1−1.4−5.0−8.3

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm WeatherLow RainMild WeatherCool Weather
Change+17.0−5.2−9.6−11.0

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WinterFallSpringSummer
Change+12.4−6.7−10.8−11.2

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne weekWeekend
Change+11.2−9.3−11.3

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Requires a flightAt most two connectionsRoad trip
Change+7.3+0.9−10.0

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FamilySoloCouple
Change+1.6+0.3−4.0

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain questionUnderratedOverrated
Change+0.7−4.0−6.3−11.5

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Thailand112
Chiang Mai111
Phuket52
Bangkok45
Koh Samui7
Krabi5
Phuket & Krabi3
Southern Thailand3
Bangkok & Chiang Mai2
Chiang Rai2
Koh Lanta2
Northern Thailand2
Phuket/Krabi2
Andaman Coast1
Chiang Mai & Bangkok1

Thailand

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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