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title: Manchester: 60% of tours, attractions and museums websites take a booking or an order from an AI agent directly · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/editions/2026-q4/press/manchester-tours
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 Press release · The Direct Index, Q4 2026 · preview, data to 2026-10-15

# Manchester: 60% of tours, attractions and museums websites take a booking or an order from an AI agent directly

Manchester, 2026-10-15

The Direct Index, an independent measurement of whether AI assistants can find, read and act on a business's own website, published its Q4 2026 edition today, as a preview with data to 2026-10-15. In Manchester it scanned every tours, attractions and museums business with a website of its own: 34 sites, 25 of them reachable.

Of the reachable sites, 40% turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, almost always a hosting firewall the owner never chose. 60% take a booking or an order on their own domain; the rest hand that to a marketplace or offer nothing an agent can act on. 5 sites score A or B. Manchester has too few reachable sites to be ranked in this edition.

The assistants have not been asked about Manchester yet; the next edition will say where ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini send people.

[Quote from Antonio Curado, founder of The Direct Index, Brussels. Two sentences on what the number means for owners in Manchester.]

The Direct Index is built by Antonio Curado, an engineer based in Brussels. The method is public, the data is open (ODbL) and nothing in the ranking is for sale. Every business in the index has a page with its findings, a free rescan and a badge. The Manchester index: https://directindex.org/city/manchester-tours. The edition: https://directindex.org/editions/2026-q4. The method: https://directindex.org/methodology. The data: https://directindex.org/data. Contact: hello@directindex.org.

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