Annual Review

Highlights for 2023/24

• Visits to our libraries and museums grew to around 4 million each.
• Our Glasgow Club sport and leisure facilities recorded 4.7 million  attendances, an increase of 18% on the previous year.
• There were nearly 800,000 visits to our community facilities. This included more than 34,000 attendances to our youth programmes and nearly 16,000 attendances to our adult learning programmes.
• Our Family Learning team worked directly with 4,000 families.
• We also published a refreshed Vision for Glasgow Libraries, which sets out our priorities for the next five years, on the themes of Culture, Health and Wellbeing, Social, Economy, and the Environment. You can read the vision here.

Records broken

It was also a record-breaking year for our box office. Across our arts and music programming we sold 450,000 tickets. We also celebrated the 15th anniversary of Glasgow being named the UK’s first UNESCO City of Music.

Tourism and conventions

• Our cultural and sporting experiences and events helped to attract more visitors in 2023. 
• Visitor volume and value in 2023 almost doubled compared to the previous year.
• Nearly four million tourists stayed overnight in Glasgow last year spending £2.35 billion.
• The total number of people visiting Glasgow increased by more than a quarter to nearly 26 million.
• We also launched the new Glasgow 2030 Tourism Strategy, which you can read here.