Manchester tours, attractions and museums: which businesses can AI agents use?
Every tour operator, attraction and museum in Manchester with its own website, scanned the same way. 32 of 34 scanned so far.
businesses in OpenStreetMap
have their own website on record
of reachable sites turn an AI crawler away at the edge
score A or B so far
A 0 · B 5 · C 9 · D 7 · F 11
Scores are provisional where the action test or the citation check is still to come. Methodology · Markdown · JSON.
Ranked by Agent-Direct Score
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| # | Business | Score | Menu | Direct channel | AI crawlers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Museum of Illusions moimanchester.com | B 84.6% | none | own site | open |
| 2 | Kuoni kuoni.co.uk | B 80% | none | own site | open |
| 3 | AO Arena ao-arena.com | B 73.8% | none | own site | open |
| 4 | Coronation Street Experience coronationstreetexperience.co.uk | B 73.8% | none | own site | open |
| 5 | Hays Travel haystravel.co.uk | B 70% | none | own site | open |
| 6 | Manchester United Museum manutd.com | C 69.1% | HTML page | own site | blocked |
| 7 | Pankhurst Centre pankhurstmuseum.com | C 64.5% | none | own site | blocked |
| 8 | People's History Museum phm.org.uk | C 63.8% | own site | open | |
| 9 | Greater Manchester Police Museum & Archives gmpmuseum.co.uk | C 61.5% | none | own site | open |
| 10 | RNCM Collection of Historic Musical Instruments rncm.ac.uk | C 60% | none | own site | open |
| 11 | Breakout Manchester breakoutmanchester.com | C 58.8% | none | own site | open |
| 12 | Castlefield Viaduct Urban Park nationaltrust.org.uk | C 58.8% | none | own site | open |
| 13 | Manchester Jewish Museum manchesterjewishmuseum.com | C 58.8% | none | own site | open |
| 14 | Ordsall Hall salfordcommunityleisure.co.uk | C 55.4% | none | none | open |
| 15 | Stockport Air Raid Shelters stockport.gov.uk | D 54.5% | none | own site | blocked |
| 16 | Salford Museum and Art Gallery salfordmuseum.com | D 50.8% | none | none | open |
| 17 | The Manchester Museum manchester.ac.uk | D 50.8% | none | none | open |
| 18 | Victoria Baths victoriabaths.org.uk | D 50.8% | none | none | open |
| 19 | Runway Visitor Park runwayvisitorpark.co.uk | D 50% | none | own site | open |
| 20 | Barrhead Travel barrheadtravel.co.uk | D 48.6% | none | third party | blocked |
| 21 | Elizabeth Gaskell's House elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk | D 47.7% | none | third party | open |
| 22 | Heaton Park Tramway hptramway.co.uk | F 38.5% | none | none | open |
| 23 | International Anthony Burgess Foundation anthonyburgess.org | F 38.5% | none | none | open |
| 24 | Platt Hall platthall.org | F 38.5% | none | none | open |
| 25 | Museum of Transport Greater Manchester motgm.uk | F 37.4% | none | third party | blocked |
Show all 32
| # | Business | Score | Menu | Direct channel | AI crawlers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Clayton Hall claytonhall.org | F 0% | unreachable | none | blocked |
| 27 | Imperial War Museum North iwm.org.uk | F 0% | unreachable | none | blocked |
| 28 | National Football Museum nationalfootballmuseum.com | F 0% | unreachable | none | blocked |
| 29 | Science and Industry Museum scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk | F 0% | unreachable | none | open |
| 30 | Special Collections Museum mmu.ac.uk | F 0% | unreachable | none | open |
| 31 | TUI tui.co.uk | F 0% | unreachable | none | blocked |
| 32 | Thomas Cook thomascook.com | F 0% | unreachable | none | blocked |
What the index found in Manchester tours, attractions and museums
| none | 23 |
| HTML page | 1 |
| 1 |
| own site | 15 |
| none | 7 |
| third party | 3 |
| Unknown | 12 |
| Wordpress | 11 |
| Squarespace | 1 |
| Wix | 1 |
| Turn at least one away at the edge | 10 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 3 |
| Turn every visitor without a browser away | 7 |
| Did not answer in time | 0 |
| Unreachable from our scanner | 7 |
| No working site (dead address) | 2 |
Counts are over the 25 reachable sites, latest scan of each. Listings come from OpenStreetMap; businesses without a website of their own are counted but not scanned. 2 more have an address that no longer answers (dead domain, bad certificate or server down); they count next to the businesses without a website and stay out of the ranking.
Manchester tours, attractions and museums, month by month
A dated page per month, final once the month ends: how many sites turn AI crawlers away, how many take bookings or orders on their own domain, how many score A or B.
| Month | Sites scanned | Turn a crawler away | Direct booking or ordering | A or B |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 so far | 34 | 40% | 60% | 5 |
Manchester, by kind
Each kind of business is its own index, scanned the same way. This page is the tours, attractions and museums index.
| Kind | Businesses | Own site | Sites scanned | Grades |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| restaurants and fast food | 1,597 | 313 | 266 | A 29 · B 81 · C 48 · D 31 · F 77 |
| cafes and bars | 1,200 | 237 | 194 | A 17 · B 35 · C 46 · D 27 · F 69 |
| hairdressers and beauty salons | 682 | 46 | 37 | A 0 · B 5 · C 10 · D 6 · F 16 |
| dentists, clinics and vets | 272 | 76 | 67 | A 0 · B 7 · C 38 · D 4 · F 18 |
| tours, attractions and museums this page | 83 | 34 | 32 | A 0 · B 5 · C 9 · D 7 · F 11 |
Can an agent transact in Manchester tours, attractions and museums?
1 of 25 reachable sites expose a rail an agent could transact through: UCP profile 1. Measured, not scored.
A rail is a UCP profile, an ACP discovery document, an MCP server card, or an ordering vendor that takes orders placed by assistants (Square and Toast, and any vendor whose terms allow agents). Counted from the latest scan of each site; older scans were not measured. Methodology · vendor terms for agents.