— Ranking Top 5 · AI citation —
Who does AI cite most for Luxury Yachting Thailand, Phuket / Koh Samui?
facebook.com holds the strongest AI citation share on the Luxury Yachting Thailand market across the 7-run window from October 19–25, 2026, recording 21.97%.
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- Market
- Luxury Yachting Thailand
- Location
- Phuket / Koh Samui
- Observed period
- October 19–25, 2026
- Run type
- Period run · 7 comparable runs
- Queries
- 105 queries per run
- Search engine
- Device
- Desktop
- Source location
- Thailand
- Reading
- Ranking Top 5 · AI citation
“A social platform — not a specialist — accumulated the highest AI Overview citation share on the Luxury Yachting Thailand surface across this 7-run window.”
Quick answer
The top-5 actors on this AI Overview citation rail are all cited in every comparable run, yet the spread between the first and fifth positions reaches 15.67 percentage points.
Key reading
Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI citation · October 19–25, 2026
facebook.com holds the strongest AI citation share on this market at 21.97%, accumulated across the full 7-run window. facebook.com leads YachtCharterFleet by 10.28 percentage points on AI citation share on this market. YachtCharterFleet at 11.69% and youtube.com at 11.51% sit close together in the second and third positions, separated by a narrow margin. tripadvisor.com records 7.10% and asiaglobalyachting.com records 6.30%, and the 4 sources behind facebook.com range from 11.69% down to 6.30%. The surface is top-heavy: the top 2 actors together hold more than the remaining 3 combined.
Core metric
Citation share — top 5 · Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI citation · October 19–25, 2026
Observed metric
Citation share — top 5
| Actor | Rank | AIO citation share | Presence |
|---|---|---|---|
| facebook.com | #1 | 21.97% AI citation share | cited in 7/7 runs |
| YachtCharterFleet | #2 | 11.69% AI citation share | cited in 7/7 runs |
| youtube.com | #3 | 11.51% AI citation share | cited in 7/7 runs |
| tripadvisor.com | #4 | 7.10% AI citation share | cited in 7/7 runs |
| asiaglobalyachting.com | #5 | 6.30% AI citation share | cited in 7/7 runs |
How the actors read on the surface
Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI citation · October 19–25, 2026
facebook.com holds the strongest AI citation share on this market in this card scope, at 21.97%. As a social platform rather than a specialist operator, its rank-1 position on the AI Overview citation rail signals that user-generated and discussion content is what AI Overviews reach for most frequently when answering luxury yachting queries in Thailand. facebook.com was cited in 7 of 7 comparable runs.
YachtCharterFleet records 11.69% AI citation share on this market and sits 10.28 percentage points behind facebook.com on AI citation share on this market. As a focused source on this surface, it accumulated the second-highest cumulative citation volume across the window. YachtCharterFleet was cited in 7 of 7 comparable runs.
youtube.com records 11.51% AI citation share on this market and sits 10.47 percentage points behind facebook.com. Another general-purpose platform, it occupies a position on the AI Overview citation panel for this market just behind YachtCharterFleet. youtube.com was cited in 7 of 7 comparable runs.
tripadvisor.com records 7.10% AI citation share on this market and sits 14.87 percentage points behind facebook.com. A user-generated and discussion platform, it was cited in 7 of 7 comparable runs.
asiaglobalyachting.com records 6.30% AI citation share on this market and sits 15.67 percentage points behind facebook.com on AI citation share on this market. A niche domain on this surface, it was cited in 7 of 7 comparable runs — present on every observation despite holding the fifth position by cumulative citation volume.
Pattern on the observed surface
Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI citation · October 19–25, 2026
The panel is top-heavy
The panel is top-heavy. The top 2 actors together hold more than the remaining 3 combined, and the top 3 actors together hold more than the remaining 2 combined. Three of the five positions belong to general-purpose platforms — facebook.com, youtube.com, and tripadvisor.com — while only two focused sources, YachtCharterFleet and asiaglobalyachting.com, appear on the governed top-5 panel. The spread of 15.67 percentage points between the first and fifth positions confirms a concentrated lead rather than an evenly distributed surface. All 5 actors on the panel were cited in all 7 comparable runs.
Why this reading matters
Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI citation · October 19–25, 2026
facebook.com's rank-1 position on the AI Overview citation rail for Luxury Yachting Thailand means that when AI Overviews answer yachting queries in Thailand, they cite a social platform more often than any focused yachting source. The two niche domains on the panel — YachtCharterFleet and asiaglobalyachting.com — together sit behind facebook.com alone, underscoring how platform content shapes this AI citation surface.
Market implication
Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI citation · October 19–25, 2026
The AI Overview citation surface for Luxury Yachting Thailand is structurally open — the rank-1 actor holds 21.97%, and no single source has captured a commanding share across the 7-run window. The observation that general-purpose platforms occupy three of the five governed panel positions suggests that AI Overviews draw heavily on user-generated and aggregator content when sourcing answers on this market. For monitoring purposes, this surface composition signals that citation visibility on this market's AI Overview rail is distributed across platform and niche sources rather than concentrated around specialist operators.
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- Scope:
- Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui
- Surface:
- AI citation · Google · Desktop
- Observed:
- October 19–25, 2026
- Published:
- October 31, 2026
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Who does AI cite most for Luxury Yachting Thailand, Phuket / Koh Samui? Source: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-yacht-charter-phuket-koh-samui-most-cited-by-ai-october-19-25-2026 Scope: Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI citation · Google · Desktop Family: Ranking Top 5 Observed: October 19–25, 2026 (2026-10-19/2026-10-25) Published: October 31, 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-yacht-charter-phuket-koh-samui-most-cited-by-ai-october-19-25-2026/data.csv Citation text: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-yacht-charter-phuket-koh-samui-most-cited-by-ai-october-19-25-2026/citation.txt Reuse terms: https://theobservatory.io/terms facebook.com holds the strongest AI citation share on the Luxury Yachting Thailand market across the 7-run window from October 19–25, 2026, recording 21.97%. Key facts: • facebook.com: 22% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs • YachtCharterFleet: 12% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs • youtube.com: 12% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs Published table — Citation share — top 5 (October 19–25, 2026 · 105 queries per run · 7 comparable runs): Rank · Actor · Citation share 1. facebook.com — 21.97% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs — #1 2. YachtCharterFleet — 11.69% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs — #2 3. youtube.com — 11.51% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs — #3 4. tripadvisor.com — 7.10% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs — #4 5. asiaglobalyachting.com — 6.30% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs — #5 Reading basis: This card examines sources cited in Google's AI Overviews for Luxury Yachting Thailand, observed on Google desktop from Thailand during October 19–25, 2026. It draws on 7 of 7 comparable daily observations within a governed market panel of 105 observed queries, applying the relevant source-selection rules. 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 Yachting Thailand Phuket / Koh Samui, October 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window. — The Observatory · Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI citation · Google · Desktop · October 19–25, 2026 Based on governed AAI Kernel evidence. Capture identifier: pr_1792901227069_263b04. Cite freely with attribution. Published by The Observatory. Source footnote: Sourced from a published AAI Kernel Market Intelligence Board (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 31, 2026), Who does AI cite most for Luxury Yachting Thailand, Phuket / Koh Samui?. https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-yacht-charter-phuket-koh-samui-most-cited-by-ai-october-19-25-2026 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: b14d599986f061d3
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— The Observatory · Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI citation · Google · Desktop · October 19–25, 2026
Based on governed AAI Kernel evidence. Capture identifier pr_1792901227069_263b04. 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 panel. It does not measure who opens those AI Overview answers, nor does it reflect organic search ranking.
- Can this card establish a longer-term trend?
- No. This card observes a 7-run window from October 19–25, 2026. AI Overview content varies by query, model behavior, and date. The values reflect cumulative citation volume across the window, not a trajectory over time.
- Why does a social platform hold the rank-1 position on a luxury yachting surface?
- AI Overviews select sources based on the content they surface for each query. facebook.com accumulated the highest citation volume across the 7-run window at 21.97%. This card observes what AI Overviews cite, not why they cite it.
Scope and limitations
Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI citation · October 19–25, 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 Yachting Thailand Phuket / Koh Samui, October 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window.
Method & source
This card examines sources cited in Google's AI Overviews for Luxury Yachting Thailand, observed on Google desktop from Thailand during October 19–25, 2026. It draws on 7 of 7 comparable daily observations within a governed market panel of 105 observed queries, applying the relevant source-selection rules.
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, October 19–25, 2026. 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 2026-10-31 · Governed capture ID · pr_1792901227069_263b04
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The Luxury Yachting Thailand room places this AI Citation Ranking — Top 5 reading alongside the market’s other published observations.
For the same observation window, October 19–25, 2026, Luxury Yachting Thailand 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.
The Bali / Komodo / Raja Ampat reading examines the same AI Citation Ranking — Top 5 for October 19–25, 2026; compare the stated reading bases before drawing a cross-market conclusion. An earlier AI Citation Ranking — Top 5 reading for Amalfi / Capri / Positano provides additional context; it records October 12–18, 2026.
