— 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 the 7-run window September 28 – October 4, 2026, recording 21.05% of all AI Overview openings observed over the period.
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- Market
- Luxury Hospitality St Barth
- Location
- St Barthélemy
- Observed period
- Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
- Run type
- Period run · 7 comparable runs
- Queries
- 107 queries per run
- Search engine
- Device
- Desktop
- Source location
- BL
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- Ranking Top 10 · AI Overview
“On Saint-Barthélemy's luxury hospitality AI opening rail, a social platform — not a hotel — opens the most answers.”
Quick answer
facebook.com holds the strongest AI opening share on the Luxury Hospitality St Barth market across the 7-run window September 28 – October 4, 2026, recording 21.05% of all AI Overview openings observed over the period.
Key reading
Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
facebook.com holds the rank-1 position on the AI Overview opening-control rail for Luxury Hospitality St Barth in the period-wide ranking, at 21.05%. sebastianluxetravel.com sits in second place at 13.28%, 7.77 percentage points behind facebook.com on AI opening share on this market. instagram.com follows closely at 12.53%. The top 3 actors together hold more than the remaining 7 combined, concentrating the opening surface around two social platforms and one focused domain. The panel spread is 18.05 percentage points between the rank-1 and rank-10 actors, and the 9 sources behind facebook.com range from 13.28% down to 3.01%.
Core metric
AIO opening control — top 10 · Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
Observed metric
AIO opening control — top 10
| Actor | Rank | AIO opening share | Presence |
|---|---|---|---|
| facebook.com | #1 | 21.05% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| sebastianluxetravel.com | #2 | 13.28% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| instagram.com | #3 | 12.53% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| youtube.com | #4 | 8.52% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| Le Barthelemy Hotel & Spa | #5 | 7.27% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| ourismantravel.com | #6 | 6.52% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| forbestravelguide.com | #7 | 6.02% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| sbhonline.com | #8 | 4.51% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| tripadvisor.com | #9 | 4.26% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| access.sb | #10 | 3.01% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
How the actors read on the surface
Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
facebook.com holds the strongest AI opening share on this market in this card scope, at 21.05%. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, making it one of 6 actors on the panel to open AI answers in all 7 comparable runs.
sebastianluxetravel.com records 13.28% AI opening share on this market and sits 7.77 percentage points behind facebook.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, placing it as the highest-ranked focused domain on this opening-control rail in the period-wide ranking.
instagram.com records 12.53% AI opening share on this market, sitting 8.52 percentage points behind facebook.com. As a social platform, it reinforces the pattern of general-purpose platforms occupying the upper ranks of this opening-control surface across the 7-run window.
youtube.com records 8.52% AI opening share on this market and sits 12.53 percentage points behind facebook.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, anchoring the mid-panel as another social platform on this surface.
Le Barthelemy Hotel & Spa records 7.27% AI opening share on this market and sits 13.78 percentage points behind facebook.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs, the highest-ranked actor on this rail whose presence was not continuous across the full window.
ourismantravel.com records 6.52% AI opening share on this market and sits 14.54 percentage points behind facebook.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs.
forbestravelguide.com records 6.02% AI opening share on this market, 15.04 percentage points behind facebook.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs.
sbhonline.com records 4.51% AI opening share on this market and sits 16.54 percentage points behind facebook.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, one of 6 actors on the panel to do so.
tripadvisor.com records 4.26% AI opening share on this market and sits 16.79 percentage points behind facebook.com. As an aggregator domain, it opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs yet accumulated the second-lowest opening share in the period-wide ranking.
access.sb records 3.01% AI opening share on this market, the lowest on the governed panel, sitting 18.05 percentage points behind facebook.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs.
Pattern on the observed surface
Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
The opening-control surface for Luxury Hospitality St Barth
The opening-control surface for Luxury Hospitality St Barth is top-heavy and platform-led. The top 3 actors together hold more than the remaining 7 combined, and three of those top-3 positions belong to social platforms rather than focused hospitality sources. The 9 sources behind facebook.com range from 13.28% down to 3.01%, forming a long, gradually declining tail. 6 of the 10 actors on the panel opened AI answers in all 7 comparable runs; 4 opened AI answers in fewer runs. The mix of social platforms, aggregator domains, and niche domains on the same rail signals that AI Overview opening behavior on this market draws from structurally diverse source types rather than concentrating on a single category.
Why this reading matters
Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
facebook.com's rank-1 position on this AI opening-control rail across the 7-run window is notable because the surface it leads is a luxury hospitality market in Saint-Barthélemy — a niche geography where focused hospitality sources might be expected to open AI answers. Instead, the opening slot defaults to general-purpose platforms for the plurality of observed queries, while the first focused domain, sebastianluxetravel.com, appears only at rank 2.
Market implication
Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
The observed opening-control surface suggests that AI Overviews on this market reach for social platforms and general-purpose sources first, ahead of focused hospitality domains. For any operator monitoring AI visibility on Luxury Hospitality St Barth, the period observation across 7 comparable runs frames a surface where the primacy slot is not held by a hospitality-specific source. This reading does not establish a longer-term pattern, but it does signal that the AI opening rail on this market, as observed in this window, is structurally oriented toward platforms.
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- Observed:
- Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
- Published:
- October 6, 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-28-to-october-4-2026 Scope: Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · Google · Desktop Family: Ranking Top 10 Observed: Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026 (2026-09-28/2026-10-04) Published: October 6, 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-28-to-october-4-2026/data.csv Citation text: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-hospitality-st-barthelemy-ai-overview-control-september-28-to-october-4-2026/citation.txt Reuse terms: https://theobservatory.io/terms facebook.com holds the strongest AI opening share on the Luxury Hospitality St Barth market across the 7-run window September 28 – October 4, 2026, recording 21.05% of all AI Overview openings observed over the period. Key facts: • facebook.com: 21% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs • sebastianluxetravel.com: 13% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs • instagram.com: 13% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs Published table — AIO opening control — top 10 (Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026 · 107 queries per run · 7 comparable runs): Rank · Actor · AIO opening control 1. facebook.com — 21.05% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #1 2. sebastianluxetravel.com — 13.28% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #2 3. instagram.com — 12.53% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #3 4. youtube.com — 8.52% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #4 5. Le Barthelemy Hotel & Spa — 7.27% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #5 6. ourismantravel.com — 6.52% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #6 7. forbestravelguide.com — 6.02% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #7 8. sbhonline.com — 4.51% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #8 9. tripadvisor.com — 4.26% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #9 10. access.sb — 3.01% 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-Barthélemy on Google desktop across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period September 28 – October 4, 2026. The panel ranks the top-10 actors by cumulative AI opening volume over the period, aggregated from 107 observed queries per run. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs. 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, October 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window. — The Observatory · Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · Google · Desktop · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026 Based on governed AAI Kernel evidence. Capture identifier: pr_1791126366294_ew9llv. 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 (October 6, 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-28-to-october-4-2026 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: 09fe24dd90292f63
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- What does 'AI opening share' measure?
- AI opening share captures which source AI Overviews reach for first when constructing an answer. It measures the opening slot — the source cited at the very beginning of the AI-generated response — not general citation frequency across the full answer.
- Does this card measure general citation share or organic search ranking?
- No. This card reads only the AI Overview opening-control rail. It does not measure general citation share across the full AI answer, and it makes no claim about organic search results. Those are separate surfaces observed by different card families.
- Can this observation be read as a longer-term trend?
- This observation covers 7 comparable scheduled runs in an observation period from September 28 (Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026). AI Overview opening behavior is volatile across queries, models, and dates. This observation does not establish a longer-term trend; future windows may produce different results.
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Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI Overview · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 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, October 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-Barthélemy on Google desktop across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period September 28 – October 4, 2026. The panel ranks the top-10 actors by cumulative AI opening volume over the period, aggregated from 107 observed queries per run. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs. The primary metric is AI opening share on this market.
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Period observation across 7 comparable scheduled runs (September 28 – October 4, 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 2026-10-06 · Governed capture ID · pr_1791126366294_ew9llv
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