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title: Barcelona tours, attractions and museums in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/city/barcelona-tours/2026-10
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 Monthly snapshot · Barcelona tours, attractions and museums, ES

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

87 shop:travel agency and office:travel agent and tourism:attraction and tourism:museum websites scanned, 71 reachable. 27% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 45% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 12 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

87

sites scanned

27%

turn an AI crawler away

45%

book or order on their own domain

12

score A or B

For October 2026 so far, the report evaluated 102 scanned tours, attractions and museums websites, finding 81 reachable and 21 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at site accessibility, 21 of the reachable sites turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 26% of the reachable sites, while 10 block an AI crawler in robots.txt. In terms of overall performance grades, 2 sites received an A, 14 received a B, 18 earned a C, 30 scored a D, and 38 got an F, meaning A or B together account for 16 sites, which is 16% of the scanned sites. When examining booking or ordering options, 37 sites take direct action on the business's own site, which is 46% of the reachable sites, compared to 2 only through a marketplace, 7 through an unrecognised third party, and 35 with no booking or ordering path.

Durante este mes se analizaron 102 sitios web, de los cuales 81 resultaron accesibles y 21 quedaron inaccesibles para nuestro rastreador. Entre los accesibles, 21 sitios, que representan el 26%, rechazan al menos un rastreador de IA en el perímetro, 10 bloquean un rastreador de IA en robots.txt y 37, que son el 46%, permiten reservar o hacer pedidos directos en su propio dominio. En cuanto a las calificaciones obtenidas, 2 sitios recibieron una A, 14 una B, 18 una C, 30 una D y 38 una F, sumando 16 sitios con A o B que suponen el 16% de los analizados. Respecto al contenido y las reservas, 4 sitios muestran el menú o lista de precios en la propia página, 9 como una página HTML y 68 no lo presentan, mientras que 37 ofrecen reserva o pedido directo, 2 solo a través de un marketplace, 7 mediante un tercero no reconocido y 35 no disponen de vía para ello.

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

| F | 31 |
| D | 26 |
| C | 18 |
| B | 10 |
| A | 2 |

Menu or price list

| none | 61 |
| HTML page | 6 |
| on the page | 4 |

Direct booking or ordering

| own site | 32 |
| none | 29 |
| third party | 8 |
| marketplace | 2 |

AI crawlers

| Turn at least one away at the edge | 19 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 10 |
| Unreachable from our scanner | 16 |

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 71 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](https://directindex.org/methodology) · [the live index](https://directindex.org/city/barcelona-tours) · [all cities](https://directindex.org/cities).

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