Tourism in Britain – Travel Article
According to Visit Britain, the Monarchy brings in £500 million a year from foreign tourists. Our “culture and heritage’’ in the widest sense – extending from theaters and galleries, to pubs, Premiership Football, castles and stately homes – generated £4.6 billion in total spending by overseas tourists in 2009, and supported 100,000 jobs, the report said. But within that total one-in-eight of those sites – ranging from the Tower of London to The Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh and Ruthin Castle in Wales – are associated with Britain’s monarchy. The report reveals that foreign tourists who visited them generated £500 million of spending, directly and indirectly.