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May 17th, 2019 |
By The Editor
This year, in the latest figures released in The Revitalise Accessibility Tourism Report, the Museum of Liverpool has overtaken Tate Modern as most accessible UK visitor attraction.
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Tags: disabled access toilets, Museum of Liverpool, Revitalise, Tate Modern
Mar 27th, 2019 |
By The Editor
In 2018, Tate Modern on the South Bank managed to usurp the BM as the most visited attraction in the UK.
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Tags: ALVA, British Museum, Tate Modern
Jul 7th, 2017 |
By The Editor
With those words, the winner of Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017 was announced to be The Hepworth Wakefield.
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Tags: Art Fund, Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017, Hepworth Wakefield, Lapworth Museum of Geology, National Heritage Centre for Horseracing & Sporting Art, Tate Modern, The Sir John Soane's Museum
Nov 12th, 2016 |
By Adrian Lawes
The opening of the skiing season is early in Alpe d’Huez, light shows are becoming increasingly popular and soon there will be direct flights to the city of the Terracotta Army.
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Tags: Abu Dhabi, Alpe d’Huez, Antigua and Barbuda, Athens, Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace Christmas Trail, Caravan Club, China, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dubai, Elton John, England Coast Path, Gatwick, Greece, Guyana, Heathrow, Hyperloop, Jamaica, Manchester, Natural England, Stansted, Stellenbosch, Tate Modern, Tianjin Airlines, Turks & Caicos, V&A, Xian
Jun 25th, 2016 |
By Adrian Lawes
Has Brexit been over- estimated by the travel industry? Adrian hardly mentions the subject concentrating on the Qantas competition to Sydney, The World Eskimo Olympic Games and National Tom Sawyer Day
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Tags: Alaska, Brexit, Croatia, Cruise Lines International Association, easyjet, Fairbanks, Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, Flybe, Golden Days - Fairbanks, Hannibal - Missouri, Iain Milne, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, Monarch, National Tom Sawyer Day, Qantas, Qantas - The Ultimate Trip, Southampton, Tate Modern, Tenerife, The Arch -London, World Eskimo-Indian Olympic Games
Jul 17th, 2014 |
By The Editor
Ahead of the two year anniversary of the Olympic Games, London based journalist and co-founder of Talk of the Town, Kaye Holland, opens her little black book to reveal the best places to eat, shop and play in London Town
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Airbnb, Bar Italia, Brasserie Zedel, Brixton, Bruno Mars, Caravan, Cayman Islands, Chiltern Firehouse, China, Chinatown, Chinese New Year, Chris Corbin, cocktails, East London, Foxtons, George Michael, Geri Halliwell, Ham Yard Hotel, Hawaii, Incanto, Jeremy King, Kaye Holland, Kensington and Chelsea, King's Cross, London Eye, London Underground, Lonely Planet, Mayor, Olympic Games, Olympics, One New Change, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Ronnie Scotts, Rosewood London, San Francisco, Shoreditch Grind, Soho, Soho Grind, St Paul's Cathedral, Talk of the Town, Tate Modern, The Delaunay, The Shard, The Wolseley, tibits, Trafalgar Square, tube, UAE, Vicarage Road, Watford, Watford FC, Wireless, Wireless Festival
Jul 1st, 2014 |
By Kaye Holland
John Bosco, a tour guide at Talk of the Town London reveals the London addresses to hit
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Tags: beer, Bermondsey High Street, Britain, Canada, England, London, London Bridge, London Dungeons, London Underground, Marble Arch, massage, Nell Gwyn, Notes, Pakistan, Prokofiev, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Reading, rooftop, Rules, Spas, St Martin in the Fields, Talk of the Town, Tate Modern, The Matisse cutouts, tube, What Women Want, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
Apr 3rd, 2014 |
By Adrian Lawes
The south bank of the Thames in London has changed out of recognition in the last fifty years. So altered has it become and so popular with visitors and Londoners that you can easily spend a whole day just wandering from London Bridge to Waterloo station.
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Tags: Bankside Gallery, Borough St Market, Globe Theatre, Golden Hind, Shard, Southwark cathedral, Tate Modern, The Anchor
Mar 16th, 2014 |
By Kaye Holland
Kaye Holland has had enough of ‘workends’
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Caravan, Claridges, Electric cinema, King's Cross, London, Portobello, Shatterday, Shunday, Spitalfields, Tate Modern, Tennessee Williams, The National Theatre
Mar 5th, 2014 |
By Kaye Holland
London is just capital. Here’s 10 reasons why
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Tags: BAFTAs, Brit Awards, Camden, Electric Ballroom, Eurostar, food trucks, Harrods, Hyde Park, London, London Fashion Week, NME Awards, Notting Hill Carnival, Olympics, Portobello, Prince, Regent's Park, Selfridges, Spitalfields, Tate Modern, Theatreland
Aug 14th, 2012 |
By Jane Egginton
Jane Egginton runs through London’s forthcoming attractions, in a packed month that would leave even Usain Bolt breathless
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Tags: 007, Beijing, Billy Elliott, British Library, Danny Boyle, James Bond, Lion King, London, NHS, Olympics, Shrek the Musical, Singing in the Rain, Tate Modern, Team GB, The Hobbit, The Wizard of Oz, Usain Bolt, William Blake
Jul 23rd, 2012 |
By Kaye Holland
Get ready to take London drinking, eating and even theatre watching outside. CD-Traveller gives you the low-down on five fabulous al fresco options – regardless of which side of the river you’re on…
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Tags: al fresco, Hampstead Heath Ponds, Kew Gardens, Kew the Movies, Madison, Marine Ices, One New Change, Ragtime, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, St. Paul's, Tate Modern, The London Eye, The Mall Tavern, The Shard
Jul 21st, 2012 |
By Kaye Holland
The stars of the Olivier Award nominated family show The Tiger Who Came to Tea – Abbey Norman (Sophie), Alan Atkins (Daddy, Postman, Tiger) and Jenanne Redman (Mummy) reveal what they love about the capital
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Tags: Borough Market, Coach and Horses, Diamond Jubilee, Fortnum and Mason, Greenwich, Hamleys, Liberty's, London Eye, Lyric Theatre, oyster card, Sketch, Soho's Secret Tea Room, South Bank, St. Paul's, Tate Modern, The Tiger Who Came to Tea, West End
Jun 18th, 2012 |
By Kaye Holland
So London has been named the most expensive city for a night out, according to Trip Advisor’s TripIndex
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Tags: Brick Lane, British Museum, London, Portobello, Tate Modern, TripAdvisor, UK
Dec 7th, 2011 |
By The Editor
Kew Gardens have been voted the top visitor attraction in Britain at the British Airways magazine travel awards.
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Tags: British Airways, Buckingham Palace, Janet Street-Porter, Kew Gardens, London Eye, Seven Sisters, Stonehenge, Tate Modern, Windsor Castle
Apr 9th, 2010 |
By The Editor
Some may find this hard to believe but the Banksy exhibition last year in Bristol’s City Museum and Art Gallery made it into the top 30 exhibitions visited anywhere in the world.
That isn’t to belittle Bristol but to show what an achievement it was. It was up against capital cities with vastly bigger populations from which to draw visitors. In fact only one other exhibition in the UK drew more visitors, one on Chinese new art which was held at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Greater London’s population is about twenty times more than that of Bristol yet the Chinese exhibition attracted only about 280 more visitors per day than the Banksy one. And because of the nature of Banksy’s work, the exhibition couldn’t be publicised in advance.
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Tags: Bristol, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, British Museum, Centre Pompidou, London, Louvre, Musee d’Orsay, Musee Quai Branly, Nara National Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Paris, Saatchi Gallery, Tate Modern, Tokyo National Museum
Mar 9th, 2010 |
By The Editor
The figures for what we visited last year have been released by ALVA, the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions. Between their 42 members, they are responsible for nearly 1,600 different attractions. But not every attraction is a member and not every member provides figures so there could be more popular places around.
Last year more of us visited their attractions than ever before. The figures were up by nearly 11% over 2009 which may not be that surprising given that 2009 was a year when more of us holidayed at home.
Rather obviously, those that didn’t make an entry charge filled the top 5 positions with the British Museum being the leading attraction in the country with over 5.5 million visits.
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Tags: ALVA, Blenheim Palace, British Museum, Eden Project, Edinburgh Castle, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Lady lever Art Gallery, Mersey Maritime Museum, National Gallery, Natural History Museum, Science Museum, St Fagans, Tate Modern, Tower of London, Walker Art Gallery, World Museum
Sep 18th, 2009 |
By Adrian Lawes
Two recent surveys, one by Visit England and the other by the foreign exchange bureaux company, First Rate both claim to be able to reveal what visitors to our shores want to see. Unfortunately the two say different things. the findings from Visit England are based on visitor entry numbers and since places like Trafalgar Square and Tower Bridge are free to walk around (unless you want to go into Tower Bridge), visits aren’t counted.
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Tags: British Museum, Chester Zoo, Coventry Cathedral, Eden Project, First Rate, Kew Gardens, Lake District, National Gallery, Sheffield Winter Gardens, Stonehenge, Tate Liverpool, Tate Modern, Visit England, Westminster Abbey, Windemere
Mar 9th, 2009 |
By Adrian Lawes
Unlike my blog of Saturday about AOL, this list of the biggest UK tourist attractions is based on substance and fact. This is a list of those attractions who draw the biggest amount of visitors. So the voting panel is not one but millions. And to be fair, it includes only those places that are members of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions. ( for the full list see www.alva.org.uk/visitor_statistics) So which place came first?The British Museum had nearly 6 million visitors, up 9.5% on
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Tags: ALVA, Blackpool Pleasure Beach, British Museum, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, National Gallery, Tate Modern