AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Virginia, USA in AI travel recommendations

US state · overall rank 73 of 233 · rank 26 among US state destinations

AI models put Virginia, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 3.1% of answers, rank 73 overall. It does best when the question specifies transport as road trip: 15.8%, +12.8 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +1.2 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Virginia, 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

Platform	Score
Claude	2.5%
ChatGPT	4.2%
Gemini	2.4%
Grok	3.2%

By model

Model	Score
Claude Opus 5	1.6%
Claude Sonnet 5	2.0%
Claude Haiku 4.5	4.0%
GPT-5.6 Terra	5.2%
GPT-5.6 Luna	3.2%
Gemini 3.8 Flash	2.4%
Grok 4.6	3.2%

Web search and effort

Virginia, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Virginia, USA 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	3.6%	2.5%
Normal vs lowest effort	3.1%	3.0%

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.

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Road trip	At most two connections
Change	+12.8	−2.7

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Fall	Spring	Summer
Change	+8.3	−2.5	−3.1

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Weekend	One week	Two weeks
Change	+4.2	−1.9	−2.4

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Underrated	Where should I go?
Change	+3.2	+0.3

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Cool Weather	Warm Weather
Change	−2.6	−3.1

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Relaxation	Adventure	Cultural
Change	−2.7	−3.1	−3.1

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Family	Solo
Change	−2.8	−3.1

How the models wrote the name

Name	Mentions
Shenandoah National Park	30
Charlottesville	6
Shenandoah National Park and Charlottesville	2
Shenandoah Valley	2
Luray	1
Roanoke	1
Shenandoah National Park and Front Royal	1
Shenandoah National Park Skyline Drive	1
Shenandoah Valley Loop	1
Skyline Drive	1
Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park	1
Williamsburg and Colonial Virginia	1

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