Measuring the Inaccessible: Can AI Evaluate Accessibility in Heritage Tourism?

Assessing access to archaeological heritage requires evidence that online descriptions cannot always provide. In a study of five parks in Spain and Italy, the authors compare an AI-based desk assessment with field evidence. The automated audit could score only 66% of site-and-dimension combinations and missed aspects that require direct experience or organisational information. The study proposes combining AI-assisted evidence collection with interpretable Bayesian evaluation to make uncertainty explicit. This is a preprint and has not been presented here as peer-reviewed research.

Citation

Armenio, Sabrina, and Manuele Leonelli. “Measuring the Inaccessible: Can AI Evaluate Accessibility in Heritage Tourism?” arXiv, 2026, arXiv:2610.38642. Preprint.

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