AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

The Maldives in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 72 of 233 · rank 47 among country destinations

AI models put the Maldives in their top 10 recommendations in 3.1% of answers, rank 72 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel party as couple: 14.6%, +11.5 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +0.4 points against web search off.

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

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By platform

Platform	Score
Claude	4.0%
ChatGPT	2.4%
Gemini	2.8%
Grok	3.2%

By model

Model	Score
Claude Opus 5	2.8%
Claude Sonnet 5	4.0%
Claude Haiku 4.5	5.2%
GPT-5.6 Terra	2.4%
GPT-5.6 Luna	2.4%
Gemini 3.8 Flash	2.8%
Grok 4.6	3.2%

Web search and effort

the Maldives · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

the Maldives with web search on and off, and at each model's lowest and normal effort setting.

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Setting	Search on / normal effort	Search off / lowest effort
Web search on vs off	3.3%	2.9%
Normal vs lowest effort	3.1%	3.0%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. the Maldives made the top 10 at least once for 2 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.

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Couple	Solo	Family
Change	+11.5	−2.6	−3.1

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Relaxation	Adventure	Exotic
Change	+7.0	−2.7	−3.1

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Where should I go?	The plain question	Overrated
Change	+0.3	−1.8	−3.1

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Winter	Fall	Spring	Summer
Change	−1.0	−2.9	−2.9	−3.1

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Warm Weather	Low Rain
Change	−1.9	−2.4

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	At most two connections	Requires a flight
Change	−2.0	−3.1

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Two weeks	One week	Weekend
Change	−2.3	−2.9	−3.1

How the models wrote the name

Name	Mentions
Maldives	67
The Maldives	13
Malé/South Ari Atoll	1

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