This is interesting. Tate modern was the most visited before Covid hit.
VisitEngland’s Annual Visitor Attractions Survey for 2020 published today shows the severe impact on visitor attractions from the COVID-19 pandemic, with a 65% drop in visitors overall compared to 2019 and a 55% decline in revenue.
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British tourism is booming
I agree that the big royal events and the pageantry will garner huge attention, especially jubilees and weddings, but those events happen too few times to be considered a reason as to why foreigners travel to visit Britain. Foreigners go to London because it's in the lists of top cities to visit with a lot to see. People visit Scotland for Loch Ness monster attractions, and along with Edinburgh, and other attractions. People visit Stonehenge too, which is another tourist site. Along with Hadrian's wall. Also, Harry Potter tour and the Downton Hall manor house tour.
There is so much history and things to see in Britain that people would still visit even if we didn't have the royal family. I'm neither a royalist or republican. I think we pay about 20p a month for the royal family, so that's nothing to me to worry about. The issue is that members like Andrew who have taken that privilege for granted for too long, he's taken the piss. The Queen has served the country and done what is necessary to put Britain in the best light, so I don't place any blame on her for what her family has done. I also don't think that lifestyle is particularly ideal, even if from the outside it looks so.
The scrutiny and restrictive nature of the job doesn't make me envy the Queen or RF in general to be honest. I would take my life over that because I can say what I want or do what I want, within reason, whereas she cannot. I also believe that the royal family has indirect pros, such as keeping many people in employment. But of course, in the grande scheme they aren't particularly important, so I can understand both sides of the argument.