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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

The Bahamas in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 119 of 233 · rank 79 among country destinations

AI models put the Bahamas in their top 10 recommendations in 0.9% of answers, rank 119 overall. It does best when the question specifies climate as warm weather: 3.6%, +2.6 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −0.3 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend the Bahamas 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
Claude2.0%
ChatGPT0.2%
Gemini0.0%
Grok1.6%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 50.0%
Claude Sonnet 53.6%
Claude Haiku 4.52.4%
GPT-5.6 Terra0.0%
GPT-5.6 Luna0.4%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.0%
Grok 4.61.6%

Web search and effort

the Bahamas · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

the Bahamas 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 off0.8%1.1%
Normal vs lowest effort1.0%0.9%

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.

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm WeatherLow RainMild Weather
Change+2.6+2.0−0.6

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WinterSummerSpringFall
Change+2.2+0.2−0.3−0.7

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
At most two connectionsNonstop, 6–8 hoursRequires a flight
Change+2.0+1.1−0.6

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
RelaxationExoticAdventure
Change+1.5+0.9+0.8

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SoloFamilyCouple
Change+1.1+0.50.0

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksWeekendOne week
Change+1.0+0.2−0.1

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?
Change+0.1

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Nassau25
Bahamas8
Nassau and Paradise Island2
Nassau/Paradise Island2
The Bahamas2
Bahamas (Nassau or Exuma)1
Exuma1
Nassau and Exuma1
Providenciales1

the Bahamas

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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