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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Vietnam in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 39 of 233 · rank 25 among country destinations

AI models put Vietnam in their top 10 recommendations in 6.8% of answers, rank 39 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel style as digital nomad: 55.2%, +48.4 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +0.9 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Vietnam 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
Claude13.4%
ChatGPT6.8%
Gemini3.6%
Grok3.6%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 57.5%
Claude Sonnet 520.2%
Claude Haiku 4.512.3%
GPT-5.6 Terra3.2%
GPT-5.6 Luna10.3%
Gemini 3.8 Flash3.6%
Grok 4.63.6%

Web search and effort

Vietnam · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Vietnam 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 off7.2%6.4%
Normal vs lowest effort6.2%7.5%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Vietnam made the top 10 at least once for 10 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 58.0% 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
Digital NomadCulturalWorkcationExoticAdventureRelaxation
Change+48.4+2.4−0.6−2.8−3.5−5.8

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne weekWeekend
Change+8.5−5.0−6.6

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Requires a flightAt most two connectionsRoad trip
Change+7.6−4.2−5.8

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
The plain questionWhere should I go?UnderratedOverrated
Change+6.1−0.3−4.7−6.8

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm WeatherMild WeatherLow RainCool Weather
Change+3.5−4.2−5.4−6.4

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WinterSpringFallSummer
Change+2.9−2.3−4.1−5.5

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FamilySoloCouple
Change+0.7−1.6−3.8

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Vietnam122
Hoi An26
Con Dao20
Hanoi19
Da Nang18
Con Dao Islands12
Ho Chi Minh City9
Da Lat4
Vietnam (Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City)3
Ha Long Bay2
Canggu alternative — Da Nang1
Central and Southern Vietnam1
Central Vietnam1
Central Vietnam (Hội An and Đà Nẵng)1
Dalat1

Vietnam

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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