Manchester is UK’s ‘most cultured’ city

Sept. 16, 2010 - PRLog -- Analysis of site statistics released by http://www.MyVoucherCodes.co.uk the UK’s leading discount and voucher code website, has revealed Manchester to be the UK’s ‘most cultured city.’

Based on the number of searches made by users on the http://www.MyVoucherCodes.co.uk site for cultural-related discounts and voucher codes, such as Theatre tickets, Manchester is the UK’s ‘most culture city’, with an average of more than 300,000 searchers per month relating to restaurants and the arts coming from that area of the UK in the past 6 months.

http://www.MyVoucherCodes.co.uk analysed site statistics from the past 6 months, to see what areas of the UK the most searches per month for discounts relating to the theatre, museums, galleries, arts and collectables and restaurants were directed from. Birmingham was the least ‘most cultured city’ in the UK, with just 1,782 “cultured” discount searches per month coming from that area in the UK.

The research was conducted by http://www.MyVoucherCodes.co.uk as part of a regular tendency to keep an eye on which cities are proving the most popular within certain search criteria. Searches for discounts over the past 6 months made by users to the site were therefore monitored and then broken down into a monthly average; with each city around Britain looked at in terms of its most popular search categories.

The top five most cultural cities, based on the number of searches from the area for discounts related to theatres, museums, galleries, arts and collectibles and restaurants averaged per month for the past 6 months, were as follows:
1.       Manchester – 300,032*
2.       Liverpool – 284, 812
3.       Edinburgh – 271,981
4.       Bristol – 162,399
5.       Brighton – 156,156
(*the average number of searches from the city per month for discounts on http://www.MyVoucherCodes.co.uk relating to museums, theatre, restaurants, arts/collectibles and galleries in the past six months).

The study found that restaurant discount codes were the most popularly searched for items in Manchester on the http://www.MyVoucherCodes.co.uk website, whilst on the contrary in Birmingham, takeaway discounts proved to be the most popular discount searched for.
Mark Pearson, Chairman of http://www.MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, commented on the findings:

“Manchester has come along leaps and bounds in terms of the cultural entertainment on offer over the past couple of years; and it appears, according to our research, that this has been well received with inhabitants of the city. Although being ‘cultural’ is of course subjective, we wanted to look at which cities were still proving themselves popular with entertainment no longer associated with the
“pop” culture of today.

“It is nice to see that so many people are still interested in going out to visit museums and galleries, especially given how easy it often is to give in to the temptation of staying in with a takeaway and watching a DVD instead of venturing out to take in the culture of the area.”
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EDITORS NOTES

Mark Pearson, Chairman of MyVoucherCodes is a regular media contributor regarding online shopping and the credit crunch. At 29, his personal worth is more than £30 million. Mark was previously a trainee chef working for Gordon Ramsay at Claridges, London.
MyVoucherCodes has had sales exceeding £481m in the last year
Consumer savings on online shopping via MyVoucherCodes.co.uk up from £28m in 2008 to £52m in 2009.

MyVoucherCodes is the UK’s most popular discount site.