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31%
31% -- ai recommendation rate for Gemini (2026)
Gemini leads with a 31% national recommendation rate for tested hotel businesses.
- Appearing in one AI model does not guarantee appearing in others
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Value
31%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
508
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Surfeo
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Tier A
https://surfeo.ai/estudios/visibilidad-ia-hotel-2026 ↗
Source Article
AI Recommendations for Hotel: 74% found in only 1 AI model
How AI Models Recommend Hotel Businesses
Data from 508 Hotel businesses tested across 10 cities
Hotel ranks #1 of 30 industries for AI visibility. A higher percentage means a wider recommendation gap — more businesses in that industry are only surfaced by a single AI model.
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Share of tested hotel businesses recommended by Gemini AI model
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Gemini: 31% ai recommendation rate. Source: Surfeo (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/gemini-hotel-recommendation-rate-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/gemini-hotel-recommendation-rate-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>31%</strong> -- ai recommendation rate for Gemini<br><small>Source: Surfeo (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/gemini-hotel-recommendation-rate-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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