Boom year for London tourism

#LONDON continued to welcome record numbers of international tourists – more than 5.2 million – between July and September last year, according to the Office for National Statistics. 

The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said: ‘London is the best big city on the planet. We really know how to roll out the red carpet and put on a show for the millions of visitors who flock here year after year.

London also recorded a rise in the number of domestic visits to the city, with 9.3 million trips to London during the first nine months of 2015.

This growth has contributed £2.25 billion to London’s economy.

The number of international visits to London has risen steadily over the last five years, with 2014 seeing a record-breaking 17.4 million trips to the capital, a trend which has been matched across the UK as a whole.

VisitBritain has forecast that the number of overseas visitors travelling to the UK in 2016 will increase again by 3.8 per cent to 36.7 million, with those tourists spending almost £23 billion.

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