BOP500

Data and and geo-location on over 28,000 individual museums, libraries, cinemas and concert halls in 110 countries across six continents.

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Number of cultural assets per capita across 250 global cities, capturing how well cities provide culture to their citizens.

A proxy measure for how much cultural experiences in cities cost relative to their residents’ ability to pay. This includes data on cinema ticket pricing and average net salary across our 250 cities.

Data and geo-location on fixed cultural assets like world heritage sites, restaurants, opera houses and theme parks. Data on key time limited events, including film festivals, biennales, fashion weeks and art fairs. Identification of cultural hotspots across every major global region.

Data on cultural tourism visits by both international and domestic tourists (including visitor numbers to the Art Newspaper's world's top 150 most visited museums), and their annual spend across 250 cities.

Using two indicators from the UN World Travel Organisation 'tourism balance' and 'tourism concentration,' our database captures cultural tourism sustainability relative to city population and geographic size. Definition of the maximum ‘carrying capacity’ of 250 major global cities in terms of numbers of cultural tourists.