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Assistants · Manchester tours, attractions and museums, GB · October 2026

Where assistants send people in Manchester tours, attractions and museums

24 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, asked on 2026-10-24, to the questions people ask and to questions about the top businesses in the index. 100% of them link a business's own site or its booking software, and 8% link a marketplace, most often expedia.com (4%).

Fewer than 30 answers, so this share is not compared with other cities.

100%

of answers link the business's own site or its booking software

8%

link a marketplace

4%

link expedia.com, the marketplace named most

24

answers, 24 to the questions people ask and 0 about businesses

Of the 24 answers to the questions people ask, 100% link a business's own site or its booking software and 8% a marketplace, expedia.com most often.

Updated 2026-11-03. The Manchester tours, attractions and museums index · Places named, question by question · Markdown · JSON · Share image · All cities.

League table

The destinations, most linked first

Each row is a place an answer can send people. Share is the percentage of all 24 answers that link to it. Each assistant's column counts only that assistant's answers.

DestinationKindAnswersShareChatGPTGemini
The businesses' own sitesown site24100%12 100%12 100%
Press, guides and forumspress and guides1146%1 8%10 83%
cademy.ioother site14%01 8%
classbento.co.ukother site14%01 8%
DesignMyNightvendor, direct14%1 8%0
eventslist.co.ukother site14%1 8%0
expedia.commarketplace14%01 8%
freemanchesterwalkingtours.comother site14%01 8%
guruwalk.commarketplace14%01 8%
holmfirthvineyard.co.ukother site14%01 8%
kidify.co.ukother site14%01 8%
kirklees.gov.ukother site14%01 8%
manchesterarndale.comother site14%01 8%
manchestersightseeingtours.comother site14%01 8%
openswim.org.ukother site14%01 8%

8 more destinations with fewer answers each are in the JSON.

By assistant

What each assistant does in Manchester tours, attractions and museums

ChatGPT: answered by gpt-6-luna (12).

Gemini: answered by gemini-3.8-flash (12).

Places named when people ask

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places and a link to book or order with each one directly. The table shows how many of the places it named came with a link to the place's own site, to a marketplace or to a directory, or with no link at all.

AssistantOwn site or directMarketplaceDirectoryNo linkPlaces
ChatGPT93%0%0%7%27
Gemini94%0%0%6%36
Question by question

Who gets named, and with which link

Asked on 2026-10-24. A place in this index links to its report. A place with its own site that isn't in the index yet links to a scan. "No link" means the assistant named the place but didn't link its site. Each question links to the full list of places named.

QuestionChatGPTGemini
A walking tour on Sunday morning with tickets online.Walking Tours in Manchester own site
Si Manchester own site
Free Manchester Walking Tours own site
Free Manchester Walking Tours own site
The Ultimate Manchester Free Walking Tour own site
Jonathan Schofield Manchester Tours own site
A food tour this Saturday evening for two, book it.Manchester Bites own site
Flavours of Manchester own site
Manchester Bites own site
Scranchester Tours own site
Secret Food Tours own site
Skip-the-line tickets for the main museum tomorrow, where do I buy them?Manchester Museum own site
National Football Museum own site
Science and Industry Museum own site
Manchester Museum own site
National Football Museum own site
A bike tour of the city for a family with kids, book for Saturday.MANC CYCLES own site
National Football Museum own site
Manchester Museum own site
MANC CYCLES own site
National Cycling Centre own site
Manchester Bike Tours own site
A day trip out of the city with a guide this week, tickets online.National Park Adventure Tours own siteRabbies Tours own site
Mountain Goat Tours own site
BusyBus own site
A sunset boat tour tomorrow, I want to book directly.Manchester River Cruises own site
City Centre Cruises own site
Manchester River Cruises own site
City Centre Cruises own site
Bridgewater Cruises own site
A wine tasting or vineyard visit this weekend, book for two.Whole Bunch Wines own site
Manchester Wine Tours own site
Holmfirth Vineyard own site
Manchester Wine School own site
Veeno own site
Kayaking or paddleboarding tomorrow morning, tickets online.Salford Watersports Centre own siteSalford Watersports Centre own site
Trafford Watersports Centre own site
Debdale Outdoor Centre own site
A private guide for half a day with the family, how do I book one?Walking Tours in Manchester no link
City & Northern Quarter own site
Free Manchester Walking Tours own site
Manchester Guided Tours no link
Manchester Guided Tours no link
Manchester Sightseeing Tours own site
British Guild of Tourist Guides no link
A ghost or night walking tour tonight, two tickets.The Original Manchester Ghost Walk own site
Manchester Tours’ Ghost Walkabout own site
Flecky Bennett’s Manchester Ghost Walk own site
Flecky Bennett’s Manchester Ghost Walk own site
The Manchester Ghost Walkabout own site
Ghosts of Manchester own site
A local cooking class this week, book two places.Food Sorcery own siteFood Sorcery own site
Zouk Tea Bar & Grill Cookery School own site
COOK! with the Vegetarian Society own site
It's raining. Something fun to book indoors for this afternoon.Treetop Golf Manchester own site
Museum of Illusions Manchester own site
National Football Museum own site
National Football Museum own site
Science and Industry Museum own site
Immersive Gamebox own site
Method

How this is counted

Everything here is counted in answers, using the latest answer from each assistant to each question, asked with web search on. Some questions are the ones people ask ("best pizza delivered right now", "book me a table for Saturday"). The others are three questions about each of the top-ranked businesses in the index: the official website, where to book and where to order. Every link in an answer is read. A destination counts once for each answer that links to it, whether as the place to book or as a source the assistant cited. So each share is the share of answers that link that destination, and the shares don't add up to 100%.

All the businesses' own sites share one row, whatever the business. A booking or ordering vendor on the business's own domain counts as direct. Marketplaces and directories are named. Listing, review and map sites (Tripadvisor, Google Maps, Yelp) count as directories, even where the scanner files them with the marketplaces. Newspapers, magazines, guides, forums and tourism sites share one row. Anything left is listed by its registered domain, and a model sorts each of those unknown hosts once into directory, press, marketplace, vendor, business or other, with the reason shown. Text that only looks like a host because a space is missing ("them.here") is dropped. Business names are matched against the index. A place that isn't in the index links to a scan of its site, if the assistant gave one.

Updated 2026-11-03. The data is open, and the JSON version of this page has every destination. Methodology.