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Leading Hotels & Resorts Brands in AI Search in China

The Hotels & Resorts index re-ranked using only prompts and answers from China.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Marriott International leads AI search visibility in Hotels & Resorts in China with a Goodie visibility score of 75.2, ahead of Beaches Resorts (74.0) and Hilton (53.9). The median score across the 24 ranked brands is 18.9, and a score above 34.2 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is sina.cn at 7.7% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 8.3%.

32k prompts · 2.5m AI answers · 11.9m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Hotels & Resorts · China
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
18.9
Half of the 24 ranked hotels & resorts brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 71.9
Score to enter the top 10
34.2
Clearing 34.2 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 15.3 points above the midpoint, so the leaderboard is tightly held.
Brands named per answer
9.8
A typical answer names ten brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 7.9
Citation mix
  • UGC 4%
  • Editorial 2%
  • Video 1%
  • Reference 2%
  • Other 91%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding hotels & resorts answers. Brand-owned citations sit in the next cell and are not counted here. “Other” covers domains we have not classified into a type yet.
Brand-owned citation share
8.3%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
58/100
Mean tone of mentions across the ranked brands that carry a measured value. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
32k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
2.5m
249k in October · ▼ 0.4% vs September
Citations parsed
11.9m
1m in October · ▲ 14.3% vs September
Brands observed
610
24 ranked here · 586 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Hotels & Resorts, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01Marriott International
75.2
10.3%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity—63hotelsforkings.com
02Beaches Resorts
74.0
10.1%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity—78forbes.com
03Hilton
53.9
7.4%ChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 1.262hotelsforkings.com
04Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group
53.9
7.4%AI ModeCopilotPerplexity▲ 2.675hospitalitynet.org
05Aman Resorts
37.1
5.1%AI ModePerplexity—70hospitalitynet.org
06Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
36.8
5.0%AI ModePerplexity▲ 3.073hospitalitynet.org
07World of Hyatt
36.5
5.0%AI ModePerplexity▲ 0.975hotelsforkings.com
08St. Regis Hotels & Resorts
35.6
4.9%ChatGPTCopilot—51hilton.com
09Hilton Worldwide
35.0
4.8%ChatGPTCopilot—58nerdwallet.com
10Hyatt Hotels Corporation
34.2
4.7%ChatGPTPerplexity▼ 2.659hotelsforkings.com
24 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Oct with Sep

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Hotels & Resorts
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01sina.cn
7.7%
—
02marriott.com.cn
4.5%
—
03marriott.com
4.2%
▼ 0.1
04hyatt.com
4.0%
▼ 2.0
05instagram.com
3.8%
—
06nortonmediaenterprise.com
3.8%
▲ 0.8
07sohu.com
3.6%
—
08youtube.com
3.5%
—
09wikipedia.org
3.1%
—
10hotelsforkings.com
3.1%
▼ 1.1
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Oct with Sep, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Sampled prompts

Prompts sampled for Hotels & Resorts, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Hospitality brands with strong loyalty programs93144
02Luxury hotel brands delivering premium experiences106131
03Resort brands ideal for family vacations131120
04Budget hotel brands travelers trust149105
05哪家奢华酒店贵得值,不只是照片好看?1519
5 of 32k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Hiltonscore 53.9
▲ 1.2
Falling
▼ 2.9
▼ 2.6
Disney Resortsscore 18.0
▼ 0.7
7 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±2.0/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
150,205,797 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Hotels & Resorts, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States81.6M
02United Kingdom26.1M
03France13M
04Canada7.9M
05Germany6.1M
06Australia5.3M
07Japan4.1M
08Italy4M
09Saudi Arabia739K
10United Arab Emirates594K
11Egypt561K
12Singapore353K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Marriott International leads Hotels & Resorts this edition with a visibility score of 75.2, ahead of Beaches Resorts at 74.0.

sina.cn is the most-cited source grounding hotels & resorts answers, at roughly 7.7% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 8.3% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked hotels & resorts brands is 18.9, and a score above 34.2 reaches the industry top ten.

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Our Methodology

Our Approach to Gathering AI Visibility Data

We process millions of real prompts across AI Mode, ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity, then track which brands, products, and domains show up in the answers. That's the raw data behind every score in the Index.

Real Intent Capture

This data results from processing millions of real user prompts. We use advanced semantic and agentic processing to categorize them and define intent, filtering out noise to focus on high-value queries.

Global Model Interrogation

We run these prompts across the tracked models and across every market we cover, so each market is scored on its own answers rather than on a global average applied everywhere.

Attribution Mapping

We analyze the generated answers to capture the "Kingmaker" domains: the specific sources models cite most often in the answers that name a brand, so you can see which sources the models lean on where you appear and where you do not.

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FAQ · Hotels & Resorts

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Marriott International currently leads AI search visibility in hotels & resorts with a Goodie visibility score of 75.2, measured across the tracked AI models.

sina.cn is the most-cited source in hotels & resorts AI answers, grounding roughly 7.7% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked hotels & resorts brands is 18.9. A score above 34.2 places a brand in the industry top ten.

Each edition samples the same tracked prompt set across the models Goodie follows, then ranks brands by how often they are named in those answers.

Monthly. Each edition re-samples the tracked prompt set so month-over-month figures are directly comparable.