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Who does AI cite most for Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami), New York / Miami?

youtube.com holds the strongest AI citation share on the Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) panel at 15.49%, accumulated across 6 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period June 22–28, 2026.

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Market
Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami)
Location
New York / Miami
Observed period
June 22–28, 2026
Run type
Period run · 6 comparable runs
Queries
105 queries per run
Search engine
Google
Device
Desktop
Source location
United States
Reading
Ranking Top 5 · AI citation
“On luxury hospitality's AI Overview citation rail, platforms claim every top-5 seat but one — and no actor pulls away.”

Quick answer

The top 2 actors together hold more than the remaining 3 combined.

Key reading

Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) · New York / Miami · AI citation · June 22–28, 2026

youtube.com leads the period-wide AI Overview citation ranking at 15.49%, but the 4 sources behind youtube.com range from 13.71% down to 7.63% — a spread of 7.87 percentage points that confirms a fragmented, multi-actor contest rather than a clear hierarchy. reddit.com sits 1.79 percentage points behind youtube.com on AI citation share on this market, keeping the top of the panel tightly contested. Four of the five panel actors are platforms; forbestravelguide.com is the only focused source to reach the governed top-5. All 5 actors on the panel were cited in all 6 comparable runs, meaning every actor on this ranking carried citation signal across the full window.

Core metric

Citation share — top 5 · Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) · New York / Miami · AI citation · June 22–28, 2026

Observed metric

Citation share — top 5

June 22–28, 2026105 queries per run6 comparable runs
Citation share — top 5 · Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) · New York / Miami · June 22–28, 2026 · 6 comparable runs · AI citation · 5 ranked rows
ActorRankAIO citation sharePresence
youtube.com#115.49% AI citation sharecited in 6/6 runs
reddit.com#213.71% AI citation sharecited in 6/6 runs
instagram.com#39.89% AI citation sharecited in 6/6 runs
forbestravelguide.com#47.63% AI citation sharecited in 6/6 runs
linkedin.com#57.63% AI citation sharecited in 6/6 runs
How to read this tableThese three measures describe actors' visibility through sources cited in Google's AI Overviews. Each should be read separately.Rank — The actor's position based on the cumulative number of links citing its website.AIO citation share — The actor's percentage of recorded citations among the sources included in the measurement.Presence — The number of comparable daily observations in which the actor received at least one citation.For a full explanation of how these rankings are calculated, see Method & Standards.Reading basis. This card observes the AI Overview citation rail for Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) in the United States on Google desktop, aggregated across 6 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period June 22–28, 2026. The panel ranks the top-5 actors by cumulative AI citation volume over the period, using one single period-wide denominator across all 6 runs. AI Overview citation evidence was available on 6 of 6 runs. The source run covered 105 observed queries. The primary metric is AI citation share on this market.Read with how readings are scoped and run metadata · what this card does not claim.Produced using AI and automated checks. See methodology.

How the actors read on the surface

Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) · New York / Miami · AI citation · June 22–28, 2026

youtube.com

youtube.com holds the strongest AI citation share on this market in this card scope, at 15.49% accumulated over the 6-run window. As a general-purpose platform, it occupies the top position on a surface where no specialist hospitality operator appears — cited in 6 of 6 comparable runs.

reddit.com

reddit.com records 13.71% AI citation share on this market, sitting 1.79 percentage points behind youtube.com. That narrow gap makes reddit.com the closest challenger on the AI Overview citation rail — a user-generated platform drawing AI citations on luxury hospitality queries across all 6 comparable runs.

instagram.com

instagram.com records 9.89% AI citation share on this market, sitting 5.60 percentage points behind youtube.com. A social platform cited in 6 of 6 comparable runs, it occupies a mid-panel position where the gap to the lead widens noticeably compared to the top two.

forbestravelguide.com

forbestravelguide.com records 7.63% AI citation share on this market, the only focused source on the governed top-5 panel. It sits 7.87 percentage points behind youtube.com — cited in 6 of 6 comparable runs, yet unable to match the citation volume of any platform above it.

linkedin.com

linkedin.com records 7.63% AI citation share on this market, tying forbestravelguide.com at the bottom of the panel. A social platform cited in 6 of 6 comparable runs, it sits 7.87 percentage points behind youtube.com on AI citation share on this market.

Pattern on the observed surface

Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) · New York / Miami · AI citation · June 22–28, 2026

The panel is platform-heavy

The panel is platform-heavy: four of five positions belong to general-purpose or social platforms, with forbestravelguide.com the sole focused source. The top 3 actors together hold more than the remaining 2 combined, yet the spread from rank 1 to rank 5 is only 7.87 percentage points — narrow enough that the surface reads as distributed rather than concentrated. No specialist hospitality operator appears on the governed top-5, leaving the AI Overview citation rail for this market shaped entirely by platform-scale domains and one niche source.

Why this reading matters

Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) · New York / Miami · AI citation · June 22–28, 2026

youtube.com's rank-1 position on the period-wide AI Overview citation ranking is held without any operator or specialist hospitality domain in the governed top-5. The entire citation surface for Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) is mediated by platforms and a single focused source — a structural composition that signals how AI Overviews source luxury hospitality answers in the United States on this observed surface.

Market implication

Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) · New York / Miami · AI citation · June 22–28, 2026

The AI Overview citation rail for this market is fragmented across platforms and one focused source, with a spread of 7.87 percentage points separating the top from the bottom of the governed panel. This observation signals that AI Overviews draw luxury hospitality citations from a dispersed set of domains rather than channeling them through any single authority. For operators monitoring their AI citation visibility on this market, the absence of any specialist hospitality domain from the top-5 is the defining structural feature of this period window.

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Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) · New York / Miami
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AI citation · Google · Desktop
Observed:
June 22–28, 2026
Published:
July 4, 2026

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Who does AI cite most for Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami), New York / Miami?

Source: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-hospitality-new-york-miami-most-cited-by-ai-june-22-28-2026
Scope: Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) · New York / Miami · AI citation · Google · Desktop
Family: Ranking Top 5
Observed: June 22–28, 2026 (2026-06-22/2026-06-28)
Published: July 4, 2026
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youtube.com holds the strongest AI citation share on the Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) panel at 15.49%, accumulated across 6 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period June 22–28, 2026.

Key facts:
• youtube.com: 15% AI citation share · cited in 6/6 runs
• reddit.com: 14% AI citation share · cited in 6/6 runs
• instagram.com: 10% AI citation share · cited in 6/6 runs

Published table — Citation share — top 5 (June 22–28, 2026 · 105 queries per run · 6 comparable runs): Rank · Actor · Citation share
1. youtube.com — 15.49% AI citation share · cited in 6/6 runs — #1
2. reddit.com — 13.71% AI citation share · cited in 6/6 runs — #2
3. instagram.com — 9.89% AI citation share · cited in 6/6 runs — #3
4. forbestravelguide.com — 7.63% AI citation share · cited in 6/6 runs — #4
5. linkedin.com — 7.63% AI citation share · cited in 6/6 runs — #5

Reading basis: This card observes the AI Overview citation rail for Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) in the United States on Google desktop, aggregated across 6 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period June 22–28, 2026. The panel ranks the top-5 actors by cumulative AI citation volume over the period, using one single period-wide denominator across all 6 runs. AI Overview citation evidence was available on 6 of 6 runs. The source run covered 105 observed queries. The primary metric is AI citation share on this market.

Limitations and non-claims:
— Observes the observed AI citation surface only; within a defined scope and window.
— A period aggregate (6 comparable runs) — not a claim about bookings, revenue, or market share.
— Scoped to Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) New York / Miami, June 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window.

— The Observatory · Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) · New York / Miami · AI citation · Google · Desktop · June 22–28, 2026
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Source footnote: Sourced from a published AAI MIB card. The Observatory publishes this card’s public findings; values are as observed on the search surface, not business-market claims.
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Cite: According to The Observatory (July 4, 2026), Who does AI cite most for Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami), New York / Miami?. https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-hospitality-new-york-miami-most-cited-by-ai-june-22-28-2026

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— The Observatory · Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) · New York / Miami · AI citation · Google · Desktop · June 22–28, 2026

Based on governed AAI Kernel evidence. Capture identifier pr_1791414791961_d9dwxo. Cite freely with attribution. Published by The Observatory.

FAQ

What does 'AI citation share on this market' measure?
It measures how often a domain appears as a cited source inside AI Overview answers when Google responds to queries in the Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) market. It does not measure who opens those AI answers, nor does it reflect organic search ranking.
Why are platforms rather than hotel operators at the top of this panel?
This card observes only which domains AI Overviews cite as sources. Platforms such as youtube.com and reddit.com carry user-generated content that AI models reference when constructing answers. The panel reflects citation behavior on the AI Overview surface, not business-market position or booking volume.
Can this card establish a longer-term trend for AI citations on this market?
No. This card aggregates 6 comparable scheduled runs across June 22–28, 2026. AI Overview content varies by query, model behavior, and date. A longer observation window would be needed to identify directional movement.

Scope and limitations

Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) · New York / Miami · AI citation · June 22–28, 2026 · what this card does not claim

  • Observes the observed AI citation surface only; within a defined scope and window.
  • A period aggregate (6 comparable runs) — not a claim about bookings, revenue, or market share.
  • Scoped to Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) New York / Miami, June 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window.

Method & source

This card observes the AI Overview citation rail for Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) in the United States on Google desktop, aggregated across 6 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period June 22–28, 2026. The panel ranks the top-5 actors by cumulative AI citation volume over the period, using one single period-wide denominator across all 6 runs. AI Overview citation evidence was available on 6 of 6 runs. The source run covered 105 observed queries. The primary metric is AI citation share on this market.

The complete methodology — scope, panels, run conditions and corrections — is set out on the Method page.

Source protocol · How readings are scoped · Run metadata · Corrections

Period observation across 6 comparable scheduled runs, June 22–28, 2026. AI Overview citation evidence available on 6 of 6 runs. This observation does not establish a longer-term trend. No claim about AI opening control or organic visibility.

A capture from AAI Kernel’s governed intelligence — published by The Observatory. One reading of many; the publication date is distinct from the observed window shown above.Published 2026-07-04 · Governed capture ID · pr_1791414791961_d9dwxo

Sourced from a published AAI MIB card. The Observatory publishes this card’s public findings; values are as observed on the search surface, not business-market claims.

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Sourced from a published AAI MIB card. The Observatory publishes this card’s public findings; values are as observed on the search surface, not business-market claims.

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The Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) room places this AI Citation Ranking — Top 5 reading alongside the market’s other published observations.

For the same observation window, June 22–28, 2026, Luxury Hospitality US Urban-Resort (NY/Miami) is also read in the AI Overview Ranking — Top 10 table, the Organic Ranking — Top 5 table and the Query Spotlight table; each keeps its own reading basis.

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