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Insights Update: Tourism Levy Report and 2025 ALVA figures. Tourism Levy Impacts in England Report and ALVA 2025 Visitor Figures (Association of Leading Visitor Attractions).

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Natural History Museum most popular tourist attraction in 2025 The venue broke the record for the most visitors to any museum or gallery in a single year.

Natural History Museum overtakes British Museum as UK's top tourist attraction
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Pubs to get 15% off business rates as government announces hospitality support package www.itv.com/news/2026-01...

Summer sunshine boosts East's multi-billion tourism sector as Suffolk and Norfolk see record growth.

With economic modelling data supplied by Destination Research.

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£4.1 billion boost to the economy estimated as 11.2 million Brits planning a holiday at home this August bank holiday VisitEngland’s August bank holiday trip tracker survey, published today, shows that 11.2 million Brits are definitely planning an overnight holiday trip in the UK this bank holiday weekend, bringing a...

VisitEngland’s August bank holiday trip tracker survey shows that 11.2 million Brits are definitely planning an overnight holiday trip in the UK this bank holiday weekend, bringing an estimated £4.1 billion boost to the economy.

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Domestic Sentiment Tracker Find out where UK residents are likely to take short breaks and holidays, both within the UK and abroad. Get insights on the impact of current barriers to travel and how these evolve over time.

UK Domestic Travel Sentiment Tracker | VisitBritain.org

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The Social Value of Tourism This report explores the wide-ranging social, cultural, and community impacts of tourism

The Social Value of Tourism

This report reveals the positive cultural and social impacts that tourism has on local communities across the UK. www.visitbritain.org/social-value...

The primary reasons Brits whose next holiday is going to be domestic rather than overseas cite for their decision are that it's easier to plan a domestic trip, it will be cheaper than going abroad, and the amount of travel involved will be shorter and less time consuming.

ALVA announces visitor numbers in 2024 to the UK’s most popular attractions saw a rise of 3.4%.

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British Museum most visited UK attraction in 2024 for second year in a row Other top 10 attractions last year included Windsor Great Park and the National Museum of Scotland.

British Museum most visited UK attraction in 2024

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Great Britain domestic day visits: latest results Find the latest data on day visits that British residents took in Britain and England from the Great Britain Day Visits Survey (GBDVS).

VisitBritain/VisitEngland released the 2024 Great Britain domestic day visits survey report. The 2024 data shows a decrease in tourism day visit volume vs 2023 for England (-12%). When taking inflation into account, spend was up by 3%.

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UK short-term rentals Browse monthly insights into the supply of short-term rental properties across the UK.

UK short-term rentals

January 2025 Summary: Supply continues to grow, whilst nights reserved are flat; ADR has increased well above inflation

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Business and consumer confidence: Economic indicators Business and consumer sentiment can give an early indication of economic trends. Find the latest data on what businesses and consumers expect for the UK economy.

A useful, single source of the latest major UK national business, consumer confidence surveys, presented in a simple easily digestible form.
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2025 inbound tourism forecast The annual VisitBritain forecast for the volume and value of inbound tourism to the UK.

VisitBritain publishes its inbound tourism forecast for 2024 and 2025, showing that international visits overall and visitor spending to the UK are set to increase on 2023 levels, although with varying rates of growth from across its major inbound markets.

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The UK's art, heritage and culture offer is an exceptionally important part of what attracts tourists to the UK.

The announcement of a major funding package for arts and culture is absolutely to be welcomed.

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Almost one-in-four of those taking an overnight domestic holiday in 2023 had, or were accompanied by someone in their travel group that had, a physical or mental health condition or illness.

Domestic Sentiment Tracker Report - February 2025.

Domestic overnight trip intentions back up to February 2024 levels, whilst overseas intentions increased as well. Cost of living perceptions have been lower since the summer, but stabilised this month.

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Colchester Castle receives £1.3m for 'urgent' repairs The funding will be used to fix issues caused by water leakage at the Grade I listed landmark.

Norman castle receives £1.3m for urgent repairs

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"There are so many vacancies across our hospitality and tourism sectors and a youth mobility scheme could be instrumental in helping us to fill them."

Lib Dem MP Sarah Olney in Westminster Hall on why UK businesses struggling to recruit NEED a UK-EU youth mobility scheme. #Brexit

Tourist taxes: policy and debates A briefing about transient visitor levies or 'tourist taxes', including information on plans for the introduction of tourist taxes in Scotland and Wales.

Tourist taxes: policy and debates.

A briefing about transient visitor levies or 'tourist taxes', including information on plans for the introduction of tourist taxes in Scotland and Wales.

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New travel permit scheme for some overseas visitors could 'damage' NI's tourism
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Insights Update: Screen Tourism Research

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UK Tourism Facts & Figures 2024 We have published UK Tourism Facts and Figures 2024. This report collates useful information, stats and data across a range of tourism sectors and is designed to be useful to organisations and busine...

Tourism Facts and Figures 2024 from the Tourism Alliance. tourismalliance.com/2024-tourism...

Get involved in English Tourism Week 2025 with the new toolkit Spread the word about English Tourism Week 2025 with the new toolkit featuring this year's theme, "Supporting people and places to drive growth".

An industry toolkit for businesses and destinations to get involved in English Tourism Week 2025 is now available to download.
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Transport indicators in the week to 2 February 2025 show:

🚢 the number of ship visits to major UK ports increased 5% compared to the previous week
✈️ the number of UK flights increased 5% compared to the previous week.

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Tourism tax could help Cardiff host events, says council leader Taxing overnight stays could help Cardiff fund hosting concerts and sports matches, says Huw Thomas

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Bridgerton responsible for £5m boost to Bath tourism There has been a big economic boost to businesses as a result of Bridgerton filming in the city.

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Decision time: local government to be overhauled in the East The government has announced arrangements for local government reorganisation in most of the East of England

Local democracy shake-up: The biggest reorganisation of local government in 50 years is underway.

Norfolk, Suffolk & Essex will soon have Mayors and fewer councils. But will it bring savings—or more central control?