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Days out and culture
Cinemas, theatres, zoos, museums, attractions and festivals: what a day out earns the people who run it.
The biggest here by turnover is Bet365 at £4.0bn, followed by Mitchells & Butlers at £2.7bn.
Battles
Cinema chains
Blockbuster, or straight to streaming?
Cineworld · Odeon · Vue · Everyman · Picturehouse · Showcase
Festivals
Headliner, or second stage?
Festival Republic · Glastonbury · Edinburgh Festival Fringe · Manchester International Festival
Indoor snow slopes
Fresh powder, or running out of snow?
SnowCentres · SnowDome · Snozone
Competitive socialising venues
Darts, golf and ping pong with a bar attached. Who's scoring?
Flight Club · Topgolf · Puttshack · Electric Shuffle · Bounce · Swingers
Theatres
Full houses, or empty seats?
LW Theatres · Delfont Mackintosh Theatres · Royal Opera House · National Theatre
Visitor attractions
Queues round the block, or tumbleweed?
Warner Bros. Studio Tour London · Drayton Manor · Eden Project · Titanic Belfast · The View from The Shard
Museum trading arms
The companies behind the gift shops, cafés and licensing. Which one takes the most?
Royal Collection Trust shops · Tate shops · Historic Royal Palaces shops · Kew shops · V&A shops · British Museum shops · English Heritage shops · Science Museum shops · National Gallery shops
Independent museums and galleries
Priceless collections. What do the accounts say?
Royal Academy of Arts · London Transport Museum · Design Museum · Serpentine · Jorvik Viking Centre · Black Country Living Museum · Horniman Museum · Beaulieu · Bletchley Park · The Postal Museum · Brooklands Museum · Dulwich Picture Gallery · Mary Rose Museum
Zoos
Conservation charities with a ticket office. Who's thriving?
London Zoo and Whipsnade (ZSL) · Edinburgh Zoo and Highland Wildlife Park (RZSS) · Chester Zoo · Port Lympne and Howletts · Twycross Zoo · Marwell Zoo · Bristol Zoo Project · Banham Zoo
Safari and wildlife parks
Drive-through lions and bottom lines.
West Midland Safari Park · Yorkshire Wildlife Park · Blair Drummond Safari Park · Folly Farm · Drusillas Park
National museums and galleries
Free to enter, not free to run. Who pays the bills?
British Museum · Natural History Museum · Science Museum Group · V&A · Tate · National Gallery · National Portrait Gallery · Royal Museums Greenwich · Imperial War Museums · National Museums Liverpool · Royal Armouries · Wallace Collection · Sir John Soane's Museum · National Museums Scotland · National Galleries of Scotland · Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales · National Museums NI
VS Series
Cineworld v Odeon
Big screens, bigger bills: the cinema chains compared
Festival Republic v Glastonbury
The promoter against the farm: two ways to run a festival
Topgolf v Puttshack
Golf as a night out, two ways
Chester Zoo v Yorkshire Wildlife Park
The conservation charity against the private wildlife park
Royal Opera House v National Theatre
Two national stages, paid for by the box office and the public purse
Flight Club v Swingers
Darts against crazy golf: the competitive socialising rivals
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