— Ranking Top 10 · AI Overview —
Who controls Google's AI Overview for Luxury Hospitality St Barth, St Barthélemy?
facebook.com holds the strongest AI opening share on the Luxury Hospitality St Barth market across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period September 21–27, 2026, recording 17.88% of all AI answer openings observed over the period.
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- Market
- Luxury Hospitality St Barth
- Location
- St Barthélemy
- Observed period
- September 21–27, 2026
- Run type
- Period run · 7 comparable runs
- Queries
- 107 queries per run
- Search engine
- Device
- Desktop
- Source location
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- Ranking Top 10 · AI Overview
“On St. Barth's AI opening-control rail, a social platform — not a hospitality source — opens the most answers across the 7-run window.”
Quick answer
sebastianluxetravel.com follows at 15.58%, and ourismantravel.com sits third at 13.65%.
Key reading
Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · September 21–27, 2026
The AI Overview opening-control rail for Luxury Hospitality St Barth across the September 21–27, 2026 window shows a distributed structure: facebook.com holds the rank-1 position in the period-wide ranking at 17.88%, but the top 3 actors together hold more than the remaining 7 combined. The 9 sources behind facebook.com range from 15.58% down to 3.85%, and the spread between rank 1 and rank 10 is 14.04 percentage points. The panel mixes social platforms — facebook.com, instagram.com, youtube.com — with focused domains such as sebastianluxetravel.com, ourismantravel.com, and forbestravelguide.com. All 10 actors on the panel opened AI answers in all 7 comparable runs, meaning every source on this governed top-10 carried opening signal across the full window.
Core metric
AIO opening control — top 10 · Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · September 21–27, 2026
Observed metric
AIO opening control — top 10
| Actor | Rank | AIO opening share | Presence |
|---|---|---|---|
| facebook.com | #1 | 17.88% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| sebastianluxetravel.com | #2 | 15.58% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| ourismantravel.com | #3 | 13.65% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| forbestravelguide.com | #4 | 9.62% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| instagram.com | #5 | 8.08% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| youtube.com | #6 | 6.73% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| ellitravel.com | #7 | 5.00% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| Le Barthelemy Hotel & Spa | #8 | 5.00% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| theluxurytravelexpert.com | #9 | 4.62% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| cntraveler.com | #10 | 3.85% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
How the actors read on the surface
Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · September 21–27, 2026
facebook.com holds the rank-1 position in the period-wide AI opening-control ranking at 17.88% of all openings observed across the 7-run window. As a social platform rather than a specialist operator, its position at the top of this hospitality surface is the defining structural feature of the panel.
sebastianluxetravel.com records 15.58% AI opening share on this market, sitting 2.31 percentage points behind facebook.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs and holds the highest cumulative opening volume among the focused domains on the panel.
ourismantravel.com records 13.65% AI opening share on this market, sitting 4.23 percentage points behind facebook.com. Together with sebastianluxetravel.com, it forms a pair of niche domains that sit closer to the rank-1 actor than any other source on the panel.
forbestravelguide.com records 9.62% AI opening share on this market and sits 8.27 percentage points behind facebook.com. Its position marks a visible step down from the top three, placing it at the boundary between the upper cluster and the lower half of the panel.
instagram.com records 8.08% AI opening share on this market, sitting 9.81 percentage points behind facebook.com. It is the second social platform on the panel and opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs.
youtube.com records 6.73% AI opening share on this market and sits 11.15 percentage points behind facebook.com. It is the third social platform on the governed top-10, reinforcing the visible platform presence across this hospitality surface.
ellitravel.com records 5.00% AI opening share on this market, sitting 12.88 percentage points behind facebook.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, carrying consistent opening signal despite its position in the lower portion of the panel.
Le Barthelemy Hotel & Spa records 5.00% AI opening share on this market, also sitting 12.88 percentage points behind facebook.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, occupying a position on the AI Overview opening-control panel for this market alongside ellitravel.com at the same displayed value.
theluxurytravelexpert.com records 4.62% AI opening share on this market and sits 13.27 percentage points behind facebook.com. Its opening volume places it near the bottom of the governed panel across the 7-run window.
cntraveler.com records 3.85% AI opening share on this market, the lowest on the governed top-10 panel, sitting 14.04 percentage points behind facebook.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs despite holding the smallest cumulative opening volume.
Pattern on the observed surface
Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · September 21–27, 2026
The panel is moderately top-heavy
The panel is moderately top-heavy: the top 3 actors together hold more than the remaining 7 combined, yet no single source exceeds 17.88%. Three social platforms — facebook.com, instagram.com, and youtube.com — appear alongside seven focused or niche domains, giving the surface a mixed composition uncommon for a luxury hospitality market. The 9 sources behind facebook.com sit between 2.31 and 14.04 percentage points behind it, producing a gradual descent rather than a sharp cliff after rank 1. All 10 actors on the panel opened AI answers in all 7 comparable runs, meaning the governed top-10 carried full opening signal across the window.
Why this reading matters
Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · September 21–27, 2026
facebook.com holds the rank-1 position on this AI opening-control rail for a luxury hospitality market in Saint-Barthelemy — a surface where the reader might expect specialist travel or property domains to lead. The presence of three social platforms in the governed top-10 suggests that AI Overviews on this market draw opening sources from a broader pool than the specialist hospitality layer alone.
Market implication
Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · September 21–27, 2026
The distributed structure of this AI opening-control rail, with no actor having locked established authority on this observed surface across the 7-run window, signals that the opening slot remains structurally contested. Operators monitoring AI visibility on the Luxury Hospitality St Barth market should note that cumulative opening volume is spread across a mix of platforms and focused domains, and that the rank-1 position is held by a general-purpose social platform rather than a specialist hospitality source.
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- Observed:
- September 21–27, 2026
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- September 29, 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-september-21-27-2026 Scope: Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · Google · Desktop Family: Ranking Top 10 Observed: September 21–27, 2026 (2026-09-21/2026-09-27) Published: September 29, 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-september-21-27-2026/data.csv Citation text: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-hospitality-st-barthelemy-ai-overview-control-september-21-27-2026/citation.txt Reuse terms: https://theobservatory.io/terms facebook.com holds the strongest AI opening share on the Luxury Hospitality St Barth market across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period September 21–27, 2026, recording 17.88% of all AI answer openings observed over the period. Key facts: • facebook.com: 18% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs • sebastianluxetravel.com: 16% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs • ourismantravel.com: 14% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs Published table — AIO opening control — top 10 (September 21–27, 2026 · 107 queries per run · 7 comparable runs): Rank · Actor · AIO opening control 1. facebook.com — 17.88% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #1 2. sebastianluxetravel.com — 15.58% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #2 3. ourismantravel.com — 13.65% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #3 4. forbestravelguide.com — 9.62% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #4 5. instagram.com — 8.08% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #5 6. youtube.com — 6.73% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #6 7. ellitravel.com — 5.00% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #7 8. Le Barthelemy Hotel & Spa — 5.00% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #8 9. theluxurytravelexpert.com — 4.62% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #9 10. cntraveler.com — 3.85% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 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 September 21–27, 2026. The panel ranks the top-10 actors by cumulative AI opening volume over the period, aggregated from 107 observed queries per run. The primary metric is AI opening share on this market. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs in the window. 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, September 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window. — The Observatory · Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · Google · Desktop · September 21–27, 2026 Based on governed AAI Kernel evidence. Capture identifier: pr_1790520752384_pbkzlh. 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 29, 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-september-21-27-2026 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: 5894ab76318c3816
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FAQ
- What does AI opening share measure?
- AI opening share captures which source AI Overviews reach for first when answering a query — the opening slot. It is not general citation share (a separate metric) and it is not organic search ranking. This card reads only the opening-control rail.
- How was this period observation constructed?
- The panel aggregates AI answer openings across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period September 21–27, 2026. Each actor's share is its total openings divided by one single period-wide denominator. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs in the window.
- Does this card establish a longer-term trend?
- No. This observation covers a 7-run window and does not establish a longer-term trend. AI Overview opening behavior is volatile across queries, models, and dates; future windows may produce different panel compositions and rankings.
Scope and limitations
Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · September 21–27, 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, September 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 September 21–27, 2026. The panel ranks the top-10 actors by cumulative AI opening volume over the period, aggregated from 107 observed queries per run. The primary metric is AI opening share on this market. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs in the window.
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Period observation across 7 comparable scheduled runs (September 21–27, 2026). AI Overview opening-control evidence available on 7 of 7 runs. This observation does not establish a longer-term trend. No claim about general citation share 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 2026-09-29 · Governed capture ID · pr_1790520752384_pbkzlh
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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, September 21–27, 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.
The Dubai reading and French Riviera reading examine the same AI Overview Ranking — Top 10 for September 21–27, 2026; compare the stated reading bases before drawing a cross-market conclusion.
