The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Austin tours, attractions and museums, US

Austin tours, attractions and museums in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents?

23 shop:travel agency and office:travel agent and tourism:attraction and tourism:museum websites scanned, 16 reachable. 69% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 75% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 4 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

23

sites scanned

69%

turn an AI crawler away

75%

book or order on their own domain

4

score A or B

For October 2026 so far, 23 tours, attractions and museums websites were scanned, with 16 reachable and 7 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at site grades, 0 received an A, 4 received a B, 7 received a C, 3 received a D, and 9 received an F, meaning 4 sites, which is 17% of the scanned sites, earned an A or B together. Among reachable sites, 11 turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 69% of the reachable sites, while 2 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt. For transactions, 12 sites take a direct booking or an order on their own domain, which is 75% of the reachable sites, while 10 have booking or ordering on the business's own site, 2 through a vendor on the business's own site, 1 through an unrecognised third party, and 3 have no booking or ordering path.

Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-15; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown.

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F9
C7
B4
D3
Menu or price list
none13
HTML page2
elsewhere1
Direct booking or ordering
own site10
none3
vendor on own site2
third party1
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge11
Block one in robots.txt2
Unreachable from our scanner7

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 16 reachable sites.

Method

How this page is made

Every business of the index's kind with a website of its own is scanned the same way, about once a month, and every scan is kept. This page takes the latest scan of each site before October 2026 ended, so a site fixed in the following month shows up in the following month's page, not here. A past month does not change. The assistant tables use the latest answer per business and question before the month ended. Methodology · the live index · all cities.