Over 150,000 Visitors to Hope Street in December 2010
Press Release
On behalf of Liverpool Visitor Economy Group
Immediate: 26 January 2011
Over 150,000 Visitors to Hope Street in December 2010
Liverpool’s iconic Hope Street welcomed 150,000 visitors to its venues, and attractions during the month of December. This number is in addition to the many thousands who used Hope Street’s outstanding mix of restaurants, hotels, bars and cafes in the same period.
The figures are announced today by the Hope Street Visitor Economy Group, an informal consortium of some of the most important businesses on and around Hope Street who have been working together in partnership to raise the profile of the area with leisure visitors for both the daytime and night time economy.
Hope Street and the surrounding vicinity is an area of stunning architectural beauty with some of the finest 18th and 19th Century housing and buildings in the North West. It is home to Liverpool Cathedral and Metropolitan Cathedral and to some of the most significant performing arts organisations in the City Region including Liverpool Philharmonic and the Everyman and Unity Theatres. It is a cultural hub for some of the City’s leading arts organisations such as Hope Street Limited and Merseyside Dance Initiative and is its academic heart, with Liverpool University, Liverpool John Moores University and LIPA all based there. It counts the Victoria Gallery and Museum and Chambre Hardman House amongst its attractions, several historic pubs and locations significant in the Beatles history, and the independent boutique Hope Street Hotel.
Michael Eakin, Liverpool Philharmonic’s Chief Executive said: “The individual organisations and businesses on and around Hope Street are successfully targeting and attracting a wide variety of audiences and consumers. Collectively, these fantastic visitor figures clearly demonstrate that Hope Street is a significant asset in Liverpool’s cultural offer and economy as visitors are increasingly seeing it as a unique and essential part of their visit to the City.”
Eryl Parry, Liverpool Cathedral’s Director of Enterprise added: “Hope Street is one of the City’s most vibrant areas and home to many of its most distinctive businesses and attractions. It is becoming a destination for visitors in its own right, and one that contrasts with and complements other key destinations in the City such as the Waterfront, Liverpool One and William Brown Street.”
Notes to Editors
Hope Street Visitor Economy Group is:
Liverpool Everyman Theatre
Liverpool Philharmonic
Unity Theatre
Liverpool Cathedral
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King
Hope Street Hotel
60 Hope Street/Host/The Quarter restaurants
Liverpool John Moores University
University of Liverpool
Blackburne House
Further information from Jayne Garrity, Head of Communications
0151 210 3791/07967 364241;
