AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year
Zambia in AI travel recommendations
country · overall rank 179 of 233 · rank 121 among country destinations
AI models put Zambia in their top 10 recommendations in 0.1% of answers, rank 179 overall. It does best when the question specifies how it's asked as the plain question: 1.3%, +1.1 points against its overall score.
The score is the share of answers that recommend Zambia 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 | 0.1% |
| ChatGPT | 0.0% |
| Gemini | 0.4% |
| Grok | 0.0% |
By model
| Model | Score |
|---|---|
| Claude Opus 5 | 0.0% |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | 0.4% |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0.0% |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | 0.0% |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | 0.0% |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | 0.4% |
| Grok 4.6 | 0.0% |
Web search and effort
Zambia · Edition 1, 2027 travel year
Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers
Zambia 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 | 0.3% | n/a |
| Normal vs lowest effort | 0.1% | 0.2% |
The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Zambia made the top 10 at least once for 1 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.
How it's asked
| The plain question | Where should I go? | |
|---|---|---|
| Change | +1.1 | −0.1 |
Travel style
| Adventure | |
|---|---|
| Change | +0.2 |
How the models wrote the name
| Name | Mentions |
|---|---|
| South Luangwa National Park | 1 |
| Zambezi River | 1 |