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Leading Hotels & Resorts Brands in AI Search in China

The same monthly sample, re-ranked using only Perplexity answers.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Marriott International leads AI search visibility in Hotels & Resorts on Perplexity in China with a Goodie visibility score of 74.9, ahead of Rosewood (74.5) and Beaches Resorts (74.3). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 72.9, and a score above 68.6 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is sina.cn at 13.5% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 12.7%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Hotels & Resorts · Perplexity
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
72.9
Half of the 10 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 73.0
Score to enter the top 10
68.6
Clearing 68.6 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 4.3 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
10.4
A typical answer names ten brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 8.1
Citation mix
  • UGC 5%
  • Editorial 2%
  • Video 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
12.7%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
68/100
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
10 ranked here · 600 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
74.9
10.3%Perplexity—68hotelsforkings.com
02Rosewood
74.5
10.3%Perplexity—54hospitalitynet.org
03Beaches Resorts
74.3
10.2%Perplexity—84forbes.com
04Aman Resorts
73.4
10.1%Perplexity—68hospitalitynet.org
05Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
73.1
10.1%Perplexity▲ 12.272hospitalitynet.org
06Hilton
72.8
10.0%Perplexity▲ 1.164hotelsforkings.com
07World of Hyatt
72.5
10.0%Perplexity▲ 3.884hotelsforkings.com
08Disney Resorts
72.0
9.9%Perplexity▼ 2.753forbes.com
09Hyatt Hotels Corporation
70.5
9.7%Perplexity—59forbes.com
10Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group
68.6
9.4%Perplexity▲ 6.171hospitalitynet.org
10 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
13.5%
—
02prnewswire.com
5.4%
—
03marriott.com.cn
4.5%
—
04sina.com.cn
4.5%
—
05accor.com
3.6%
—
06sohu.com
3.6%
—
07youtube.com
3.0%
—
08hotelsforkings.com
2.9%
▼ 1.1
09hotelminder.com
2.7%
—
10yougov.com
2.3%
▼ 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
01Resort brands ideal for family vacations5642
02Budget hotel brands travelers trust5539
03Luxury hotel brands delivering premium experiences5032
04Hospitality brands with strong loyalty programs2128
05哪家奢华酒店贵得值,不只是照片好看?810
5 of 32k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
World of Hyattscore 72.5
▲ 3.8
Falling
Disney Resortsscore 72.0
▼ 2.7
5 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±5.1/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
2,699,298 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Hotels & Resorts, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States1.8M
02United Kingdom548K
03France96K
04Germany69K
05Canada57K
06Australia51K
07Japan42K
08Italy37K
09Saudi Arabia7K
10United Arab Emirates6K
11Egypt5K
12Singapore3K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Marriott International leads Hotels & Resorts this edition with a visibility score of 74.9, ahead of Rosewood at 74.5.

sina.cn is the most-cited source grounding hotels & resorts answers, at roughly 13.5% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 12.7% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked hotels & resorts brands is 72.9, and a score above 68.6 reaches the industry top ten.

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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 74.9, measured across the tracked AI models.

sina.cn is the most-cited source in hotels & resorts AI answers, grounding roughly 13.5% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked hotels & resorts brands is 72.9. A score above 68.6 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.