Recommendation Rankings · New Zealand

New Zealand’s AI Hotel Recommendation Rankings

Measurement period

August 2026

AI See You measures which hotels ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity recommend to travellers across structured travel categories. These are measured AI recommendation rankings for the stated measurement period. They are not ratings, reviews or editorial selections.

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All destination coverage

What is measured

Destinations measured

469

Hotels ranked

25,213

AI recommendations analysed

Recommendation categories tracked

AI platforms measured

1,110

Citation sources captured

Figures cover the five measured New Zealand destinations for the August 2026 measurement period and are drawn from the certified Pulse for that period.

National intelligence

What the New Zealand data shows this period

1,110

New Zealand recommendations drew on 1,110 distinct sources

Across the five measured destinations, 30,143 citations resolved to 1,110 separate web domains during the measurement period.

13 to 23

Queenstown is measured almost twice as deeply as Wellington

Queenstown carries 23 measured recommendation categories, including ski and wedding markets that do not exist elsewhere in the country. Wellington carries 13.

9 to 53

A luxury market can be a fraction of the size of a family market

Within the published core categories, Auckland Family ranks 53 properties and Wellington Luxury ranks 9. Category size, not destination size, sets the competitive field.

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Five New Zealand destinations

Auckland

August 2026

126

hotels ranked