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Leading Hotels & Resorts Brands in AI Search in Japan

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts leads AI search visibility in Hotels & Resorts on Perplexity in Japan with a Goodie visibility score of 82.9, ahead of Club Med (82.2) and The Ritz-Carlton (82.1). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 81.2, and a score above 77.6 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is ihg.com at 5.4% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 15.2%.

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
81.2
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 77.8
Score to enter the top 10
77.6
Clearing 77.6 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 3.6 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
9.1
A typical answer names nine brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 6.5
Citation mix
  • UGC 8%
  • Editorial 1%
  • Video 2%
  • Reference 4%
  • Other 85%
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
15.2%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
66/100
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
01Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
82.9
10.2%Perplexity—38cnbc.com
02Club Med
82.2
10.2%Perplexity▼ 17.059goodhousekeeping.com
03The Ritz-Carlton
82.1
10.1%Perplexity—79aaa.com
04Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
81.6
10.1%Perplexity—73aaa.com
05Beaches Resorts
81.4
10.1%Perplexity▼ 17.076goodhousekeeping.com
06Hilton Worldwide
81.0
10.0%Perplexity▼ 19.360hospitalitynet.org
07Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group
80.7
10.0%Perplexity—73aaa.com
08InterContinental Hotels Group
80.3
9.9%Perplexity▼ 26.154thepointsguy.com
09Aman Resorts
79.4
9.8%Perplexity▼ 22.979aaa.com
10Marriott International
77.6
9.6%Perplexity—66thepointsguy.com
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
01ihg.com
5.4%
—
02accor.com
4.5%
—
03prnewswire.com
4.5%
—
04hilton.com
4.1%
—
05hospitalitynet.org
3.2%
—
06youtube.com
3.1%
—
07glion.edu
2.8%
—
08instagram.com
2.7%
—
09travelandleisure.com
2.7%
—
10tripadvisor.co.uk
2.7%
—
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 vacations5745
02Luxury hotel brands delivering premium experiences4845
03Which hotel chains business travelers prefer?2643
04Budget hotel brands travelers trust4837
05カップル向けじゃなく、子どもと行けるリゾートはどこ?311
5 of 32k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising

No rising brands this month.

Falling
▼ 26.1
Aman Resortsscore 79.4
▼ 22.9
▼ 19.3
5 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±20.5/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

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts leads Hotels & Resorts this edition with a visibility score of 82.9, ahead of Club Med at 82.2.

ihg.com is the most-cited source grounding hotels & resorts answers, at roughly 5.4% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 15.2% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked hotels & resorts brands is 81.2, and a score above 77.6 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

Questions?
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the Answers.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts currently leads AI search visibility in hotels & resorts with a Goodie visibility score of 82.9, measured across the tracked AI models.

ihg.com is the most-cited source in hotels & resorts AI answers, grounding roughly 5.4% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked hotels & resorts brands is 81.2. A score above 77.6 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.