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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Vermont, USA in AI travel recommendations

US state · overall rank 36 of 233 · rank 12 among US state destinations

AI models put Vermont, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 7.4% of answers, rank 36 overall. It does best when the question specifies season as fall: 38.5%, +31.2 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +2.1 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Vermont, USA 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
Claude7.0%
ChatGPT7.7%
Gemini6.3%
Grok8.3%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 56.8%
Claude Sonnet 58.7%
Claude Haiku 4.55.6%
GPT-5.6 Terra8.7%
GPT-5.6 Luna6.8%
Gemini 3.8 Flash6.3%
Grok 4.68.3%

Web search and effort

Vermont, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Vermont, USA 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 off8.4%6.3%
Normal vs lowest effort7.1%7.6%

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.

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FallWinterSummerSpring
Change+31.2−0.1−5.2−7.0

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WeekendOne weekTwo weeks
Change+11.4+0.3−1.5

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?
Change+0.9

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Road tripRequires a flightAt most two connections
Change−2.4−6.1−6.8

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Cool Weather
Change−4.0

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
ExoticAdventureRelaxation
Change−5.9−6.7−6.8

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CoupleSoloFamily
Change−6.3−6.8−7.0

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Stowe86
Vermont26
Woodstock9
Burlington3
Green Mountains2
Burlington and Lake Champlain1
East Burke1
New England1
New England (Vermont, USA)1
Northeast Kingdom and Green Mountains1
Southern Vermont1
Stowe & the Green Mountains1
Vermont’s Green Mountains1
Woodstock and the Green Mountains1

Vermont, USA

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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