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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Esther Addley

Visitors to the UK’s leading attractions down 25% on pre-Covid numbers

London’s Natural History Museum, the UK’s most visited indoor attraction, which was up 196% on last year’s numbers with 4.6m visitors in 2022.
The UK’s most visited indoor attraction, London’s Natural History Museum, was up 196% on last year’s numbers with 4.6 million visitors in 2022. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Visitor numbers at the UK’s leading attractions are still almost a quarter lower than before the pandemic, thanks to a perfect storm of Covid, Brexit, energy prices and the wider financial crisis, according to the sector’s trade body.

Figures published on Friday by the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions show that while the number of visits to its sites rose by 69% in 2022 compared with the year before, this was still 23% lower than in 2019.

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