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Who does AI cite most for Luxury Hospitality St Barth, St Barthélemy?

youtube.com holds the strongest AI citation share on this market across the 7-run window from July 6–12, 2026, at 15.33%.

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Market
Luxury Hospitality St Barth
Location
St Barthélemy
Observed period
July 6–12, 2026
Run type
Period run · 7 comparable runs
Queries
107 queries per run
Search engine
Google
Device
Desktop
Source location
BL
Reading
Ranking Top 5 · AI citation
“Platforms, not hospitality domains, collect the most AI Overview citations on Luxury Hospitality St Barth.”

Quick answer

The top-5 panel on the AI Overview citation rail is composed entirely of platforms and focused sources, with no single actor exceeding 15.33%.

Key reading

Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI citation · July 6–12, 2026

youtube.com holds the rank-1 position in the period-wide AI citation ranking at 15.33%, but the 4 sources behind youtube.com range from 10.00% down to 8.64%. The spread between the panel leader and the rank-5 actor is 6.68 percentage points — a gap that separates youtube.com from the rest without granting it a commanding lead. The top 3 actors together hold more than the remaining 2 combined, yet the trailing cluster sits in a narrow band. The surface is distributed: no actor on this panel has accumulated a share that would signal concentrated AI citation authority on this observed surface across the 7-run window.

Core metric

Citation share — top 5 · Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI citation · July 6–12, 2026

Observed metric

Citation share — top 5

July 6–12, 2026107 queries per run7 comparable runs
Citation share — top 5 · Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · July 6–12, 2026 · 7 comparable runs · AI citation · 5 ranked rows
ActorRankAIO citation sharePresence
youtube.com#115.33% AI citation sharecited in 7/7 runs
facebook.com#210.00% AI citation sharecited in 7/7 runs
instagram.com#39.29% AI citation sharecited in 7/7 runs
Le Barthelemy Hotel & Spa#48.91% AI citation sharecited in 7/7 runs
sebastianluxetravel.com#58.64% AI citation sharecited in 7/7 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 St Barth in Saint-Barthelemy on Google desktop across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period July 6–12, 2026. The panel ranks the top-5 actors by cumulative AI citation volume over the period, aggregated from 107 observed queries using one single period-wide denominator. The primary metric is AI citation share on this market. AI Overview citation evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs in the comparable window.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 St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI citation · July 6–12, 2026

youtube.com

youtube.com holds the strongest AI citation share on this market in this card scope, at 15.33%. Cited in 7 of 7 comparable runs, it occupies a position on the AI Overview citation panel for this market as a social platform rather than a specialist hospitality source.

facebook.com

facebook.com records 10.00% AI citation share on this market and sits 5.33 percentage points behind youtube.com on AI citation share on this market. Also cited in 7 of 7 comparable runs, it appears on the AI Overview citation surface as another social platform drawing AI citations on luxury hospitality queries in Saint-Barthelemy.

instagram.com

instagram.com records 9.29% AI citation share on this market, sitting 6.03 percentage points behind youtube.com. Cited in 7 of 7 comparable runs, it rounds out a trio of social platforms that collectively occupy the top three positions on this period-wide AI citation panel.

Le Barthelemy Hotel & Spa

Le Barthelemy Hotel & Spa records 8.91% AI citation share on this market and sits 6.41 percentage points behind youtube.com. Cited in 7 of 7 comparable runs, it is the highest-ranked focused source on this panel — yet its share places it below all three social platforms.

sebastianluxetravel.com

sebastianluxetravel.com records 8.64% AI citation share on this market, the lowest on the governed panel, sitting 6.68 percentage points behind youtube.com. Cited in 7 of 7 comparable runs, it appears on this surface as a focused source alongside Le Barthelemy Hotel & Spa at the bottom of the ranking.

Pattern on the observed surface

Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI citation · July 6–12, 2026

The panel splits into two structural tiers

The panel splits into two structural tiers: three social platforms at the top and two focused sources at the bottom. The top 2 actors together hold less than the remaining 3 combined, which means the surface is not top-heavy — citation volume is distributed across the panel rather than concentrated at the lead. The 4 sources behind youtube.com range from 10.00% down to 8.64%, forming a tight trailing cluster. All 5 actors on the panel were cited in all 7 comparable runs, which means the panel composition was broad enough to include every actor across the full window.

Why this reading matters

Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI citation · July 6–12, 2026

youtube.com holds the rank-1 position by cumulative AI citation volume over the period, yet it is a general-purpose platform — not a hospitality-focused source. The two focused sources on this panel, Le Barthelemy Hotel & Spa and sebastianluxetravel.com, sit at the bottom of the ranking. On this AI Overview citation surface in Saint-Barthelemy, user-generated and social platforms are the sources AI Overviews cite most when answering luxury hospitality queries.

Market implication

Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI citation · July 6–12, 2026

The AI Overview citation surface for Luxury Hospitality St Barth is distributed across platforms and focused sources with no actor accumulating a share that signals concentrated authority on this observed surface across the 7-run window. For any operator monitoring AI citation visibility, the observation that social platforms occupy the top three positions on this rail — ahead of hospitality-specific domains — reframes what it means to be visible in AI-generated answers on this market.

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Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy
Surface:
AI citation · Google · Desktop
Observed:
July 6–12, 2026
Published:
July 18, 2026

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Who does AI cite most for Luxury Hospitality St Barth, St Barthélemy?

Source: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-hospitality-st-barthelemy-most-cited-by-ai-july-6-12-2026
Scope: Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI citation · Google · Desktop
Family: Ranking Top 5
Observed: July 6–12, 2026 (2026-07-06/2026-07-12)
Published: July 18, 2026
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youtube.com holds the strongest AI citation share on this market across the 7-run window from July 6–12, 2026, at 15.33%.

Key facts:
• youtube.com: 15% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs
• facebook.com: 10% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs
• instagram.com: 9% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs

Published table — Citation share — top 5 (July 6–12, 2026 · 107 queries per run · 7 comparable runs): Rank · Actor · Citation share
1. youtube.com — 15.33% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs — #1
2. facebook.com — 10.00% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs — #2
3. instagram.com — 9.29% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs — #3
4. Le Barthelemy Hotel & Spa — 8.91% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs — #4
5. sebastianluxetravel.com — 8.64% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs — #5

Reading basis: This card observes the AI Overview citation rail for Luxury Hospitality St Barth in Saint-Barthelemy on Google desktop across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period July 6–12, 2026. The panel ranks the top-5 actors by cumulative AI citation volume over the period, aggregated from 107 observed queries using one single period-wide denominator. The primary metric is AI citation share on this market. AI Overview citation evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs in the comparable window.

Limitations and non-claims:
— Observes the observed AI citation 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, July 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window.

— The Observatory · Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI citation · Google · Desktop · July 6–12, 2026
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Cite: According to The Observatory (July 18, 2026), Who does AI cite most for Luxury Hospitality St Barth, St Barthélemy?. https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-hospitality-st-barthelemy-most-cited-by-ai-july-6-12-2026

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— The Observatory · Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI citation · Google · Desktop · July 6–12, 2026

Based on governed AAI Kernel evidence. Capture identifier pr_1791404711476_slivuv. Cite freely with attribution. Published by The Observatory.

FAQ

What does AI citation share on this market measure?
It measures how often an actor's domain appears as a cited source inside AI Overview answers across the market's observed query set. It does not measure who opens those AI answers, nor does it reflect organic search ranking.
Does this card prove a longer-term trend on this market?
No. This card observes an observation period of 7 comparable scheduled runs from July 6–12, 2026. AI Overview content varies by query, model, and date. The observation captures one period and does not establish a multi-month trajectory.
Why do social platforms appear ahead of hospitality-specific sources?
AI Overviews select sources based on their own model logic, not on whether a domain is a specialist in the market. The observation records which domains AI cited most often across 107 queries over the window — it does not explain why those sources were selected.

Scope and limitations

Luxury Hospitality St Barth · St Barthélemy · AI citation · July 6–12, 2026 · what this card does not claim

  • Observes the observed AI citation 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, July 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window.

Method & source

This card observes the AI Overview citation rail for Luxury Hospitality St Barth in Saint-Barthelemy on Google desktop across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period July 6–12, 2026. The panel ranks the top-5 actors by cumulative AI citation volume over the period, aggregated from 107 observed queries using one single period-wide denominator. The primary metric is AI citation share on this market. AI Overview citation evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs in the comparable window.

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 7 comparable scheduled runs. AI Overview citation evidence available on 7 of 7 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 2026-07-18 · Governed capture ID · pr_1791404711476_slivuv

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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