What's the biggest tourist attraction in the UK? Harry Potter of course! Tour operator British Tours Ltd. Determined the Top 10 Most Popular Tours for Visitors to the UK.
According to Yahoo Movies, more tourists book Harry Potter tours than any other tour that is offered by British Tours Ltd. The London company found that almost 700 groups went on their "Harry Potter locations tour" in the past five years. This is almost 50 percent more than their second most popular tour of the famous monument Stonehenge and sunrise or sunset.
The most popular tour, the Harry Potter tour takes movie fans to the filming locations such as Platform 9 ¾ at London St Pancras train station and other sites like Leadenhall and Borough Markets.
Guests also gets a change to visit the Hogwarts dining hall which is really Christ Church College's Great Hall at Oxford University. Fans also get a thrill by visiting Gloucester Cathedral where the scenes featuring the talking portraits and Moaning Myrtle were filmed.
"A number of other films have had a positive effect on UK tourism like 'Notting Hill', 'Four Weddings And A Funeral', and 'Pride & Prejudice' though not on the scale of 'Harry Potter'," British Tours Ltd director Jason Doll Steinberg said according to Yahoo.
The hype over some tours was large at time but quickly died out soon.
"Thousands of people wanted to visit the 'Da Vinci Code' locations in London and Paris," Steinberg told Yahoo. "It could almost be described as a mania but it died down pretty much as quickly as it started."
Here are the top ten most popular tours for visitors to the UK:
1. Harry Potter locations
2. Stonehenge Dawn/Dusk
3. Greenwich
4. British Museum
5. The Da Vinci Code
6. Jane Austen country/Pride and Prejudice film locations
7. Shopping
8. Jack the Ripper
9. Tours by Tube
10. Literary England - homes of Kipling, Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, the Bronte Sisters and Shakespeare.
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