AI Travel Planners Went Multilingual: How Hotels Get Recommended in Any Language
The short answer Yes — AI travel planning has gone multilingual, and an English-only GEO strategy now misses most of the conversation. In September 2026, OpenAI’s Signals consumer-usage data confirmed that more than half of active ChatGPT users on consumer plans predominantly use a language other than English, with Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic the most common. The fastest relative growth since a July 2023 baseline has come from Africa and Asia, and in June 2026 the fastest-growing languages with over one million users were Uzbek, Kazakh and Burmese. ...