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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

The Dominican Republic in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 79 of 233 · rank 52 among country destinations

AI models put the Dominican Republic in their top 10 recommendations in 2.6% of answers, rank 79 overall. It does best when the question specifies climate as warm weather: 14.7%, +12.2 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +0.5 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend the Dominican Republic 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
Claude4.1%
ChatGPT1.8%
Gemini0.8%
Grok3.6%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 50.8%
Claude Sonnet 57.5%
Claude Haiku 4.54.0%
GPT-5.6 Terra1.6%
GPT-5.6 Luna2.0%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.8%
Grok 4.63.6%

Web search and effort

the Dominican Republic · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

the Dominican Republic 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 off2.8%2.3%
Normal vs lowest effort2.3%2.9%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. the Dominican Republic 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
Warm WeatherMild WeatherLow Rain
Change+12.2+0.2−2.2

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
AdventureRelaxationExoticCultural
Change+6.1−0.5−1.3−2.1

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Nonstop, 6–8 hoursAt most two connectionsRequires a flightRoad trip
Change+5.5−0.1−2.0−2.6

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FamilyCoupleSolo
Change+3.8+1.0−2.0

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WinterSpringSummerFall
Change+3.00.0−0.7−1.2

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
One weekWeekendTwo weeks
Change+1.4+0.8−1.0

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain questionOverrated
Change+0.3−2.1−2.6

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Punta Cana59
Dominican Republic16
Santo Domingo2
Dominican Republic (Punta Cana area)1
Dominican Republic (Samaná/Jarabacoa regions)1
Punta Cana/Samaná1
Samaná1
Samaná Peninsula1
Santiago & Puerto Plata1

the Dominican Republic

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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