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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

The United Kingdom in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 12 of 233 · rank 9 among country destinations

AI models put the United Kingdom in their top 10 recommendations in 18.0% of answers, rank 12 overall. It does best when the question specifies climate as cool weather: 79.6%, +61.6 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −4.0 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend the United Kingdom 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 · Itinerary Share

By platform

PlatformScore
Claude16.9%
ChatGPT19.8%
Gemini16.3%
Grok19.1%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 521.4%
Claude Sonnet 515.1%
Claude Haiku 4.514.3%
GPT-5.6 Terra18.3%
GPT-5.6 Luna21.4%
Gemini 3.8 Flash16.3%
Grok 4.619.1%

Web search and effort

the United Kingdom · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

the United Kingdom 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 off16.0%20.0%
Normal vs lowest effort18.4%17.7%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. the United Kingdom made the top 10 at least once for 8 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 27.5% 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
Cool WeatherMild WeatherLow RainWarm Weather
Change+61.6−1.0−13.8−17.7

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SummerFallSpringWinter
Change+21.3−4.0−7.7−7.8

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CulturalAdventureRelaxationExotic
Change+16.7−2.7−4.5−8.0

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
One weekTwo weeksWeekend
Change+16.6−6.5−12.8

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FamilySoloCouple
Change+14.3+10.5−7.9

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Nonstop, 6–8 hoursRequires a flightRoad tripAt most two connections
Change+13.8+10.6+7.2+2.1

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain questionOverratedUnderrated
Change+1.5−9.1−18.0−18.0

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Edinburgh175
London152
Scottish Highlands50
Scotland46
North Coast 50023
Manchester8
Lake District7
Isle of Skye6
Belfast5
Scottish Highlands and Isle of Skye5
The Cotswolds5
Stonehenge4
Cotswolds3
Edinburgh and the Scottish Highlands3
Edinburgh, Scotland3

the United Kingdom

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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