The annual points of interest survey, printed right this moment by VisitEngland, has revealed that gardens noticed the best proportion progress in customer numbers throughout 2019.
Visits to gardens throughout England elevated by ten per cent in 2019 in comparison with the earlier yr.
Farms and locations of worship additionally noticed robust progress in customer numbers, up eight and 7 per cent, respectively.
historic homes/castles and wildlife points of interest/zoos noticed good progress in visits, each up by 5 per cent.
General England’s customer points of interest noticed an increase of three per cent in guests in 2019, the best year-on-year enhance since 2014, and 4 per cent progress in income in comparison with the earlier yr.
These developments are more likely to have gone into sharp reverse this yr, nevertheless, because the nation battles the Covid-19 pandemic.
VisitEngland chief govt, Sally Balcombe, stated: “From world-renowned museums, galleries, castles and historic homes to rural, wildlife and out of doors experiences, England’s excellent vary of customer points of interest are an important and helpful a part of our tourism provide, boosting native economies proper throughout the nation.
“England’s points of interest continued to offer a wealthy and diverse canvas to seize the creativeness of home and worldwide guests and our gorgeous gardens had been a confirmed tourism draw, admired at house and internationally for his or her magnificence and selection.
“Thousands and thousands of jobs and native economies depend on tourism and this annual survey can be a well timed alternative to spotlight the dedication of customer points of interest throughout the nation who’ve been working so onerous to welcome guests again safely, adapting and innovating to satisfy new methods of working and nonetheless offering an incredible expertise.”
Topping the record of free points of interest was the British Museum with 6.2 million guests adopted by the Tate Trendy with practically 6.1 million and the Nationwide Gallery with six million.
The Tower of London remained essentially the most visited ‘paid for’ attraction in 2019 with virtually three million visits adopted by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which noticed a 25 per cent enhance in guests to 2.three million and Chester Zoo with 2.1 million.
The survey, which gathered info from 1,308 English points of interest, additionally confirmed will increase in worldwide guests general in 2019, up two per cent, and extra native day journeys to points of interest than within the earlier yr, additionally up two per cent.
Extra Data
To see the outcomes of the VisitEngland annual survey of visits to customer points of interest, together with regional information for points of interest, head over to the official website.
