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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Türkiye in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 53 of 233 · rank 33 among country destinations

AI models put Türkiye in their top 10 recommendations in 5.3% of answers, rank 53 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel style as cultural: 24.3%, +19.0 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −0.6 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Türkiye 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
Claude6.8%
ChatGPT6.3%
Gemini4.4%
Grok3.6%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 55.6%
Claude Sonnet 55.6%
Claude Haiku 4.59.1%
GPT-5.6 Terra4.4%
GPT-5.6 Luna8.3%
Gemini 3.8 Flash4.4%
Grok 4.63.6%

Web search and effort

Türkiye · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Türkiye 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 off5.0%5.6%
Normal vs lowest effort5.4%5.1%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Türkiye 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 style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CulturalExoticAdventureRelaxation
Change+19.0+2.0+0.6−4.9

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
At most two connectionsRequires a flightNonstop, 6–8 hours
Change+11.1−0.6−4.8

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FallSpringSummerWinter
Change+9.2+0.4−4.5−4.6

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Mild WeatherCool WeatherLow RainWarm Weather
Change+8.3−0.9−3.0−4.4

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SoloCoupleFamily
Change+5.2−0.5−4.2

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
One weekTwo weeksWeekend
Change+2.2−1.7−2.4

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?UnderratedThe plain question
Change+0.5−3.2−4.0

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Istanbul91
Turkey26
Cappadocia18
Lycian Way7
Antalya4
Bodrum4
Türkiye2
Cappadocia & Central Anatolia1
Cappadocia or Antalya1
Gaziantep1
Mardin1
Turkey (Istanbul & Cappadocia)1
Turkey (Istanbul and Cappadocia)1
Turkey, Aegean Coast1

Türkiye

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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