Booking.comSurvey
36%
25%detractors
Share of consumers classified as AI enthusiasts
How is consumer sentiment towards AI distributed?
36% of consumers are AI Enthusiasts and 25% are Detractors, with Advocates at 13%, Cautious at 13% and Sceptics at 9%.
Share of consumers classified as AI enthusiasts · Global (33 markets)36%
detractors25%
11 points apart
The five-cohort split is more useful than any average. A quarter of the market is actively negative on AI, which is why visible AI features can cost conversion with some audiences even as they win others.
Source
Booking.comPlatform data
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- Geography
- Global (33 markets)
- Evidence type
- Survey
- Sample
- 37,325 respondents across 33 markets
- For comparison
- detractors: 25%
- Last checked
Method
Booking.com Global AI Sentiment Report, April–May 2025. Full split: Enthusiasts 36%, Advocates 13%, Cautious 13%, Sceptics 9%, Detractors 25%. The five published shares sum to 96%; the report does not say what the remaining 4% is, so the cohorts are not a complete partition of the sample.
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