Forecasting Visitor Demand from Open AI-Camera Counts and Weather: Lessons from Japan for Saudi Heritage Sites

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Small heritage and nature sites need a few days' notice of busy days to plan staff, overflow parking and shuttles, but most have neither sensors nor forecasting expertise. We test what one artificial intelligence (AI) camera counter per site, a public holiday calendar and a free weather forecast can predict. Using 22 months of open AI-camera counts from three contrasting sites in Fukui, Japan (a train station, a coastal cliff and a mountain summit park), we measure how weather changes visits, fo…