— Ranking Top 10 · AI Overview —
Who controls Google's AI Overview for Luxury Hospitality St Barth, St Barthélemy?
instagram.com holds the strongest AI opening share on the Luxury Hospitality St Barth market in this period, at 16.12%, observed across 7 comparable scheduled runs from August 24–30, 2026.
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- Market
- Luxury Hospitality St Barth
- Location
- St Barthélemy
- Observed period
- August 24–30, 2026
- Run type
- Period run · 7 comparable runs
- Queries
- 107 queries per run
- Search engine
- Device
- Desktop
- Source location
- BL
- Reading
- Ranking Top 10 · AI Overview
“On St Barth's AI opening-control rail, a social platform edges out every specialist across the top-10 panel.”
Quick answer
instagram.com holds the strongest AI opening share on the Luxury Hospitality St Barth market in this period, at 16.12%, observed across 7 comparable scheduled runs from August 24–30, 2026.
Key reading
Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026
instagram.com holds the rank-1 position on this AI opening-control rail in the period-wide ranking, yet its 16.12% share leaves the surface wide open — the top 2 actors together hold less than the remaining 8 combined. sebastianluxetravel.com sits just 0.60 percentage points behind instagram.com on AI opening share on this market, making the gap between the two narrowest on the panel. The 9 sources behind instagram.com range from 15.52% down to 3.28%, a spread of 12.84 percentage points from top to bottom. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 6 of 7 runs in the comparable window; one run on August 27, 2026 returned no AI Overview source competitors. None of the 10 actors on the panel opened AI answers in all 7 comparable runs.
Core metric
AIO opening control — top 10 · Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026
Observed metric
AIO opening control — top 10
| Actor | Rank | AIO opening share | Presence |
|---|---|---|---|
| instagram.com | #1 | 16.12% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| sebastianluxetravel.com | #2 | 15.52% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| facebook.com | #3 | 13.13% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| ourismantravel.com | #4 | 11.04% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| forbestravelguide.com | #5 | 10.75% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| youtube.com | #6 | 7.16% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| Le Barthelemy Hotel & Spa | #7 | 5.07% AI opening share | opening in 5/7 runs |
| cntraveler.com | #8 | 3.88% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| reddit.com | #9 | 3.58% AI opening share | opening in 4/7 runs |
| theluxurytravelexpert.com | #10 | 3.28% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
How the actors read on the surface
Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026
instagram.com holds the strongest AI opening share on this market in this period, at 16.12%. A social platform rather than a specialist operator, it opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs across the window.
sebastianluxetravel.com records 15.52% AI opening share on this market, sitting 0.60 percentage points behind instagram.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs, occupying the closest position to the rank-1 actor on this opening-control rail.
facebook.com records 13.13% AI opening share on this market and sits 2.99 percentage points behind instagram.com. Another social platform on the panel, it opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs.
ourismantravel.com records 11.04% AI opening share on this market, sitting 5.07 percentage points behind instagram.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs across the window.
forbestravelguide.com records 10.75% AI opening share on this market and sits 5.37 percentage points behind instagram.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs, rounding out the upper portion of the panel.
youtube.com records 7.16% AI opening share on this market, sitting 8.96 percentage points behind instagram.com. A social platform, it opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs.
Le Barthelemy Hotel & Spa records 5.07% AI opening share on this market and sits 11.04 percentage points behind instagram.com. It opened AI answers on 5 of 7 comparable runs, the lowest presence frequency among the top-7 actors on this panel.
cntraveler.com records 3.88% AI opening share on this market, sitting 12.24 percentage points behind instagram.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs despite its lower cumulative opening volume.
reddit.com records 3.58% AI opening share on this market and sits 12.54 percentage points behind instagram.com. A user-generated discussion platform, it opened AI answers on 4 of 7 comparable runs — the lowest presence frequency on the panel.
theluxurytravelexpert.com records 3.28% AI opening share on this market, the lowest on the governed top-10 panel, sitting 12.84 percentage points behind instagram.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs.
Pattern on the observed surface
Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026
The panel is dispersed rather than concentrated
The panel is dispersed rather than concentrated. The top 2 actors together hold less than the remaining 8 combined, and the spread from rank 1 to rank 10 is 12.84 percentage points. Three social platforms — instagram.com, facebook.com, and youtube.com — appear alongside niche domains and focused sources, giving the surface a mixed composition of general-purpose platforms and specialist or niche domains. The 9 sources behind instagram.com sit between 0.60 and 12.84 percentage points behind it, with the upper portion of the panel relatively compressed and the lower portion trailing more sharply.
Why this reading matters
Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026
instagram.com holds the rank-1 position on this AI opening-control rail in the period-wide ranking, yet the surface it leads is structurally open: no actor accumulated more than 16.12% of AI answer openings across the window. The presence of three social platforms in the top six positions signals that AI Overviews on this market draw heavily from user-generated and aggregator domains when selecting their opening source.
Market implication
Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026
The AI-answer opening layer on this market is wide open — even the rank-1 actor on this observed AI Overview opening-control surface across the 7-run window holds only 16.12% of openings over the period. This observation suggests that no single source has consolidated the AI primacy slot for Luxury Hospitality St Barth queries, and the mix of social platforms and niche domains on the panel signals that AI Overviews draw from structurally different source types when opening answers on this market.
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- Observed:
- August 24–30, 2026
- Published:
- September 1, 2026
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Who controls Google's AI Overview for Luxury Hospitality St Barth, St Barthélemy? Source: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-hospitality-st-barthelemy-ai-overview-control-august-24-30-2026 Scope: Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · Google · Desktop Family: Ranking Top 10 Observed: August 24–30, 2026 (2026-08-24/2026-08-30) Published: September 1, 2026 Method — How readings are scoped: https://theobservatory.io/method#standards Method — Run metadata: https://theobservatory.io/method/panel#run-metadata Method — Source protocol: https://theobservatory.io/method#source-protocol Method — Corrections and right of reply: https://theobservatory.io/method#corrections Public table: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-hospitality-st-barthelemy-ai-overview-control-august-24-30-2026/data.csv Citation text: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-hospitality-st-barthelemy-ai-overview-control-august-24-30-2026/citation.txt Reuse terms: https://theobservatory.io/terms instagram.com holds the strongest AI opening share on the Luxury Hospitality St Barth market in this period, at 16.12%, observed across 7 comparable scheduled runs from August 24–30, 2026. Key facts: • instagram.com: 16% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs • sebastianluxetravel.com: 16% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs • facebook.com: 13% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs Published table — AIO opening control — top 10 (August 24–30, 2026 · 107 queries per run · 7 comparable runs): Rank · Actor · AIO opening control 1. instagram.com — 16.12% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #1 2. sebastianluxetravel.com — 15.52% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #2 3. facebook.com — 13.13% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #3 4. ourismantravel.com — 11.04% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #4 5. forbestravelguide.com — 10.75% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #5 6. youtube.com — 7.16% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #6 7. Le Barthelemy Hotel & Spa — 5.07% AI opening share · opening in 5/7 runs — #7 8. cntraveler.com — 3.88% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #8 9. reddit.com — 3.58% AI opening share · opening in 4/7 runs — #9 10. theluxurytravelexpert.com — 3.28% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #10 Reading basis: This card observes the AI Overview opening-control rail for Luxury Hospitality St Barth in Saint-Barthelemy on Google desktop across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period August 24–30, 2026. The panel ranks the top-10 actors by cumulative AI opening share on this market, aggregated from 107 observed queries. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 6 of 7 runs. One run on August 27, 2026 returned no AI Overview source competitor data, so aggregated values are computed from the 6 runs with available evidence. The primary metric is AI opening share on this market. Limitations and non-claims: — Observes the observed AI answer surface only; within a defined scope and window. — A period aggregate (7 comparable runs) — not a claim about bookings, revenue, or market share. — Scoped to Luxury Hospitality St Barth St Barthélemy, August 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window. — The Observatory · Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · Google · Desktop · August 24–30, 2026 Based on governed AAI Kernel evidence. Capture identifier: pr_1788101528856_ut500j. Cite freely with attribution. Published by The Observatory. 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. Attribution: Published by The Observatory · Based on an AAI Kernel capture · governed by The Observatory editorial system Cite: According to The Observatory (September 1, 2026), Who controls Google's AI Overview for Luxury Hospitality St Barth, St Barthélemy?. https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-hospitality-st-barthelemy-ai-overview-control-august-24-30-2026 This record is the published reading and its public table/slice as served on the card — not the complete underlying capture or provider dataset. Observed by The Observatory. Not an endorsement, recommendation, market-share claim or commercial ranking. Free reuse, including commercial republication, under The Observatory’s Terms. Retain attribution, source link, scope and date. Revision: 3a1897db4311a001
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FAQ
- What does AI opening share measure?
- AI opening share captures how often a given source is cited at the very opening of an AI Overview answer — the primacy slot. It does not measure general citation frequency across the full AI answer, and it does not reflect organic search ranking.
- How was this period observation constructed?
- This card aggregates 107 observed queries across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period August 24–30, 2026. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 6 of 7 runs; one run on August 27, 2026 returned no AI Overview source competitors, so aggregated values are computed from the 6 runs with available evidence.
- Does this card prove a longer-term trend?
- This observation does not establish a longer-term trend. AI Overview opening behavior is volatile across queries, models, and dates. Future windows may produce a different panel composition and different opening shares.
Scope and limitations
Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026 · what this card does not claim
- Observes the observed AI answer surface only; within a defined scope and window.
- A period aggregate (7 comparable runs) — not a claim about bookings, revenue, or market share.
- Scoped to Luxury Hospitality St Barth St Barthélemy, August 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window.
Method & source
This card observes the AI Overview opening-control rail for Luxury Hospitality St Barth in Saint-Barthelemy on Google desktop across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period August 24–30, 2026. The panel ranks the top-10 actors by cumulative AI opening share on this market, aggregated from 107 observed queries. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 6 of 7 runs. One run on August 27, 2026 returned no AI Overview source competitor data, so aggregated values are computed from the 6 runs with available evidence. The primary metric is AI opening share on this market.
The complete methodology — scope, panels, run conditions and corrections — is set out on the Method page.
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Period observation across 7 comparable scheduled runs (August 24–30, 2026). AI Overview opening-control evidence available on 6 of 7 runs. This observation does not establish a longer-term trend. No claim about general citation share or organic visibility.
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The Luxury Hospitality St Barth room places this AI Overview Ranking — Top 10 reading alongside the market’s other published observations.
For the same observation window, August 24–30, 2026, Luxury Hospitality St Barth is also read in the AI Citation Ranking — Top 5 table, the Organic Ranking — Top 5 table and the Query Spotlight table; each keeps its own reading basis.
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