AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

How the AI Shortlist is measured

How we asked

Each answer is a fresh conversation: one travel question, sent to one AI model, with web search on or off. Every model got the same short instructions: the traveler lives in the United States, and the answer should be a ranked list of up to 15 places, each with a one-line reason. The questions, the models and their settings were fixed before we started asking.

The models

Model	Platform
Claude Opus 5	Claude
Claude Sonnet 5	Claude
Claude Haiku 4.5	Claude
GPT-5.6 Terra	ChatGPT
GPT-5.6 Luna	ChatGPT
Gemini 3.8 Flash	Gemini
Grok 4.6	Grok

Answers were collected in September 2026. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok here mean each company's models as tested in this study, not the consumer apps, which can answer differently.

The questions

All 59 questions we asked, grouped by what they ask about. Some name a season, a trip length, a way of getting there, the weather, a style of trip or who is going; one names nothing at all. The plainest question was asked several times, to see how steady the answers are.

Season

Where should I go in spring 2027?
Where should I go in summer 2027?
Where should I go in fall 2027?
Where should I go in winter 2027?
Where should I go for a weekend getaway in spring 2027?
I have a week off in spring 2027. Where should I go?
I have two weeks off in spring 2027. Where should I go?
Where should I go for a weekend getaway in summer 2027?
I have a week off in summer 2027. Where should I go?
I have two weeks off in summer 2027. Where should I go?
Where should I go for a weekend getaway in fall 2027?
I have a week off in fall 2027. Where should I go?
I have two weeks off in fall 2027. Where should I go?
Where should I go for a weekend getaway in winter 2027?
I have a week off in winter 2027. Where should I go?
I have two weeks off in winter 2027. Where should I go?

Trip length

Where should I go for a weekend getaway in 2027?
I have a week off in 2027. Where should I go?
I have two weeks off in 2027. Where should I go?

Transport

Where should I go in 2027 that's a nonstop flight of 6 to 8 hours?
What are the best road trips to take in 2027?
Where should I fly to for a vacation in 2027?
Where should I go in 2027 that I can reach with no more than two connections?

Climate

Where should I go in 2027 for warm weather?
Where should I go in 2027 for cool weather?
Where should I go in 2027 for a low chance of rain?
Where should I go in 2027 for mild, comfortable weather?

Travel style

Where should I go for an adventure trip in 2027?
Where should I go to relax in 2027?
Where should I go in 2027 that feels exotic?
Where should I go in 2027 for culture and history?
Where should I go for a workcation in 2027?
Where should I go as a digital nomad in 2027?

Travel party

Where should I take my family in 2027?
Where should we go for our honeymoon in 2027?
Where should I travel solo in 2027?

How it's asked

Where should I go in 2027?
What are the most underrated places to visit in 2027?
What are the most overrated places to visit in 2027?

Several details at once

Where should I take my family for a relaxing two-week road trip in fall 2027 with a low chance of rain?
Where should I travel solo for a relaxing two-week trip in winter 2027, somewhere reachable with no more than two connections and a low chance of rain?
Where should I travel solo for a two-week trip in spring 2027 that feels exotic, has warm weather, and is a nonstop flight of six to eight hours?
Where should I take my family for a summer weekend getaway in 2027 that feels exotic, has a low chance of rain, and is reachable with no more than two connections?
Where should I travel solo for a two-week adventure road trip in summer 2027 with cool weather?
Where should my partner and I go for a two-week adventure in fall 2027 with warm weather, reachable with no more than two connections?
Where should I take my family for a relaxing one-week trip in spring 2027 with cool weather, reachable with no more than two connections?
Where should I travel solo for a cultural one-week trip in winter 2027 with cool weather and a nonstop flight of six to eight hours?
Where should my partner and I take a one-week road trip in winter 2027 that feels exotic and has mild, comfortable weather?
Where should I fly with my family for a cultural two-week trip in winter 2027 with warm weather?
Where should my partner and I go for a relaxing summer weekend in 2027 with warm weather and a nonstop flight of six to eight hours?
Where should I fly for a solo two-week adventure in spring 2027 with a low chance of rain?
Where should I travel solo for a cultural one-week trip in fall 2027 with mild weather, reachable with no more than two connections?
Where should I fly with my family for a cultural one-week trip in summer 2027 with mild, comfortable weather?
Where should I take my family for a one-week winter adventure in 2027 with warm weather and a nonstop flight of six to eight hours?
Where should my partner and I fly for a relaxing two-week trip in spring 2027 with mild, comfortable weather?
Where should I take my family for a winter adventure weekend in 2027 with mild weather and a nonstop flight of six to eight hours?
Where should I travel solo for a cultural road-trip weekend in spring 2027 with warm weather?
Where should my partner and I fly for an exotic weekend trip in fall 2027 with cool weather?
Where should my partner and I go for a cultural one-week trip in fall 2027 with a low chance of rain and a nonstop flight of six to eight hours?

How the scores work

A destination's score is the share of answers that recommend it in their top 10. An answer counts a destination once, however many times it names it.
Scores are averaged model by model, then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally. A model with no answers in a filtered view is left out of that view's average, not counted as zero.
The rank-weighted score gives position 1 full weight, sliding down to one tenth at position 10. The depth score counts only positions 11–15. The avoid score is the share of answers that tell the traveler to skip the destination.
Every answer counts toward the total, including answers that asked a clarifying question or recommended nothing.
Destinations come in three kinds: countries, US states and US regions. Wherever a US region appears beside countries, it is labelled as a US region.

What came back

Every answer counts toward the totals, whatever it contained.

Recommendation lists, 1,764 answers

Answered in full: 1,741
Answered with fewer places than asked for: 19
Asked a clarifying question instead: 3
Recommended nothing: 1

Reading the answers

Each answer was read for the places it named, whether it recommended each one or advised against it, and the sources it cited.

We checked 60 answers by hand. None had a place missed, invented, matched to the wrong destination, or a recommendation read the wrong way.

Keep in mind

These figures are shares of AI answers, not shares of travelers who saw a destination.
Every question assumed a traveler who lives in the United States.
AI answers change as models and the web change; a later edition may differ.

Quoting and reuse

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