Most popular UK tourist attractions

As Google releases its list of top UK tourist attractions, we see what the public think about places to visit where they live.

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00:00According to the ONS, that's the Office of National Statistics, the country from

00:05which the largest number of tourists come from is the United States, which may

00:09come as a bit of surprise to some people because of course maybe people felt

00:12that sort of, or feel that people come from elsewhere, well they sure do,

00:16but not in sort of the numbers that the Americans still come. Over five

00:20million a year on the latest statistics for America, followed by France

00:25and then we sort of have a whole host of other European countries. So Britain

00:29is still seeing this as a sort of place that people want to come and visit. The

00:32fact that they sort of come to London is again no great surprise because of

00:36course so much is packed into London. London of course is in many ways like a

00:40sort of a working museum of sorts, but nonetheless of course you know the whole

00:44of Britain is still seen as a place which is really sort of great to visit.

00:48Americans I've known who've come to this country, they tend to sort of do maybe

00:51London, maybe sort of a day trip somewhere else and then they sort of

00:54head elsewhere to Europe. So the fact that tourism is still sort of a

00:58great industry is no great surprise. Unfortunately of course the one thing

01:02that we can't guarantee any time of year is the weather. As we've heard tourists

01:06come to the UK from all over the world and at the moment the exchange rate is

01:09favourable for tourists coming into the country. Yeah I mean of course we hear a

01:13lot about this in terms of international sort of trade and sort of the pound

01:16going up or down against the sort of the euro and sort of the dollar and dare I

01:20say it, as the sort of the pound drops of course that makes it sort of better

01:23value. Going to sort of the capital you're going to get some bargains but

01:27dare I say it, you're going to have to sort of probably pay top whack to sort of stay

01:30there and eat out. So these are sort of big problems which I'm sure people factor

01:33in. While Buckingham Palace tops Google's list and three of the top five are in or

01:38just outside London, there are many places around the country that are

01:41worthy of tourists time. I'd always say you know get out and about and if you

01:45can sort of do a canal journey or take a sort of a rail trip on sort of one of

01:49the old sort of steam railways, you see a lot of it or the country from a

01:53different perspective you know perhaps you know Scotland you know that can be

01:58good if you get the right weather.