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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

The U.S. Virgin Islands in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 106 of 233 · rank 70 among country destinations

AI models put the U.S. Virgin Islands in their top 10 recommendations in 1.2% of answers, rank 106 overall. It does best when the question specifies climate as warm weather: 5.5%, +4.3 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +0.8 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend the U.S. Virgin Islands 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
Claude1.7%
ChatGPT1.0%
Gemini1.2%
Grok0.8%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 50.8%
Claude Sonnet 50.8%
Claude Haiku 4.53.6%
GPT-5.6 Terra1.6%
GPT-5.6 Luna0.4%
Gemini 3.8 Flash1.2%
Grok 4.60.8%

Web search and effort

the U.S. Virgin Islands · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

the U.S. Virgin Islands 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 off1.6%0.8%
Normal vs lowest effort0.9%1.4%

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.

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm WeatherLow RainMild Weather
Change+4.3+1.3−0.6

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WinterSummerFall
Change+2.0−0.4−1.2

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
At most two connectionsRoad tripNonstop, 6–8 hoursRequires a flight
Change+1.3−0.5−0.9−1.2

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
ExoticRelaxationAdventure
Change+0.7+0.2−0.8

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?
Change+0.2

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
One weekWeekendTwo weeks
Change0.0−0.3−0.5

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FamilySoloCouple
Change−0.1−0.1−0.7

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
St. Thomas11
US Virgin Islands7
St. John5
St. Croix4
U.S. Virgin Islands4
St. John’s1
The U.S. Virgin Islands1
U.S. Virgin Islands (St. Thomas/St. John)1
US Virgin Islands (St. Croix)1

the U.S. Virgin Islands

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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