3rd March 2008
by ecofriendlytourist.com
Britain's top visitor attractions
The website www.ecofriendlytourist.com reports on Britain’s favourite tourist attractions and how to find them
Blackpool Pleasure Beach has topped the charts once again of Britain’s most popular visitor attractions. Five and a half million visits were made to the famous amusement park in 2007 but there was a fall in numbers compared with the previous year. It just pipped the British Museum which saw a 12% boost in visitor numbers with just over 5.4 million according to a survey by the industry body ALVA (the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions).
All the other top ten attractions were in London: Tate Modern, the National Gallery, Natural History Museum, Science Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Tower of London, National Maritime Museum and St. Paul’s Cathedral. Most have free admission.
Members of ALVA comprise the majority of Britain's biggest and best known attractions and ecofriendlytourist.com believes its website is a useful source of ideas and information for anyone planning a day out.
It features a nationwide map showing locations of dozens of attractions throughout the country and there are also links. The site has separate lists for museums and galleries, heritage sites, cathedrals, leisure attractions, gardens and conservation (this includes Chester Zoological Gardens, the Zoological Society of London, the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew and the Eden Project in Cornwall.
Nevertheless some of these links are to corporate sites so require a bit more digging to obtain visitor information.
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NOTES FOR EDITORS
For further details about the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) visit its website at www.alva.org.uk
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