The United Arab Emirates in AI travel recommendations
country · overall rank 86 of 233 · rank 57 among country destinations
AI models put the United Arab Emirates in their top 10 recommendations in 1.9% of answers, rank 86 overall. It does best when the question specifies climate as low rain: 16.5%, +14.5 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores 0.0 points against web search off.
The score is the share of answers that recommend the United Arab Emirates in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.
the United Arab Emirates · Edition 1, 2027 travel year
Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers
the United Arab Emirates 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
1.9%
1.9%
Normal vs lowest effort
1.6%
2.3%
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
Low Rain
Warm Weather
Mild Weather
Change
+14.5
+0.6
−1.9
Transport
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
At most two connections
Requires a flight
Nonstop, 6–8 hours
Road trip
Change
+2.9
+1.5
−1.9
−1.9
Season
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Winter
Summer
Spring
Fall
Change
+1.6
−0.8
−0.9
−1.7
Trip length
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeks
Weekend
One week
Change
+1.5
−1.0
−1.9
Travel party
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Solo
Family
Couple
Change
+1.4
+0.7
−1.6
Travel style
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Relaxation
Adventure
Exotic
Cultural
Digital Nomad
Workcation
Change
+1.0
0.0
−0.1
−0.3
−1.9
−1.9
How it's asked
Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?
Overrated
Change
+0.2
−1.9
How the models wrote the name
Name
Mentions
Dubai
90
Abu Dhabi
13
United Arab Emirates
4
Dubai & Abu Dhabi
2
Dubai and Abu Dhabi
2
Downtown Dubai
1
Dubai and the Hajar Mountains
1
Dubai to Abu Dhabi and the desert dunes
1
Dubai to Al Ain
1
United Arab Emirates (Dubai to Ras Al Khaimah)
1
United Arab Emirates & Oman (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Muscat)
1
United Arab Emirates & Oman combo
1
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