--- title: Cologne tours, attractions and museums in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/cologne-tours/2026-10?format=md --- [The Direct Index](https://directindex.org/) [Scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[Cities](https://directindex.org/cities)[Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings)[Search](https://directindex.org/search)[Guides](https://directindex.org/guides)[About](https://directindex.org/about) Monthly snapshot · Cologne tours, attractions and museums, DE # Cologne tours, attractions and museums in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 120 shop:travel agency and office:travel agent and tourism:attraction and tourism:museum websites scanned, 101 reachable. 29% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 37% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 8 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 120 sites scanned 29% turn an AI crawler away 37% book or order on their own domain 8 score A or B For October 2026 so far, 120 tours, attractions and museums websites were scanned, with 101 reachable and 19 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at the results, 1 site received an A, 7 received a B, 28 received a C, 24 received a D, and 60 received an F, meaning A or B together accounted for 8 sites, which is 7% of the scanned sites. Among the reachable sites, 29 turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 29% of the reachable sites, while 3 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt. Regarding direct transactions, 37 sites take a booking or an order on their own domain, representing 37% of the reachable sites, while 1 allows booking or ordering only through a marketplace, 5 go through an unrecognised third party, and 58 provide no booking or ordering path. Für den aktuellen Monat wurden 120 Websites erfasst, von denen 101 erreichbar und 19 nicht erreichbar waren. Bei den Noten gab es A 1, B 7, C 28, D 24 sowie F 60, womit A oder B zusammen auf 8 Websites und damit 7% der erfassten Seiten entfallen. Von den erreichbaren Seiten weisen 29 Websites beziehungsweise 29% mindestens einen AI-Crawler an der Edge ab, während 3 Seiten einen AI-Crawler in der robots.txt blockieren. Eine Buchung oder Bestellung ist bei 37 Websites und damit 37% der erreichbaren Seiten direkt auf der Seite des jeweiligen Business möglich, während 1 Seite dies nur über einen Marketplace anbietet, 5 über eine nicht erkannte dritte Partei laufen und 58 keinen solchen Pfad aufweisen. 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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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. 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