ALVA | Association of Leading Visitor Attractions

Eden Project: Cornwall
St Paul's Cathedral: 'Ecce Homo' by Mark Wallinger
English Heritage: Stonehenge, Wiltshire
Continuum Group Ltd: Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth
Royal Collection Trust: Windsor Castle
National Gallery: Michelangelo and Sebastiano
National Portrait Gallery: Absent Friends; Howard Hodgkin
Warner Bros. Studio Tour London: The Making of Harry Potter
Zoological Society of London: Whipsnade Zoo, Bedfordshire
Historic Scotland: Edinburgh Castle
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust: Slimbridge, Gloucestershire
National Trust: Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland
National Football Museum: Manchester
Titanic Belfast: Queen's Island, Belfast.
Treasure Houses of England: Chatsworth; House Style - Five centuries of Fashion
Treasure Houses of England: Leeds Castle, Kent

ALVA's members are the UK's most popular, iconic and important museums, galleries, palaces, castles, cathedrals, zoos, historic houses, heritage sites, gardens and leisure attractions.

They comprise over 2200 tourist sites, hosting over 119 million domestic and overseas visitors each year - around 28% of the visits made annually in the UK.

We represent our members to Government, media and business and lobby for support for the sector. We provide training, benchmarking and advocacy initiatives to assist our members continually improve the visitor experience.

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Upcoming events

20-20 July 2017

Finance Directors Forum

Farrer & Co

25 July 2017

ALVA Board meeting and Summer Lunch

Farrer & Co, London

16 August 2017

ALVA Scotland meeting

Kelvinhall

11 September 2017

ALVA Education Managers's forum

Roman Baths, Bath

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Latest News

ALVA NEWS

12 June 2017

ALVA Director appointed Mayor of London's Ambassador for Cultural Tourism

ALVA Director Bernard Donoghue has been appointed by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to be the Mayor's Ambassador for Cultural Tourism and a member of the Mayor's Cultural Leadership Board. [more...]

INDUSTRY NEWS

23 Jun 2017

Exclusive: Moscow startup eyes global expansion with free-roam VR experiences

Russian virtual reality startup Anvio VR has set its sights on establishing multiple worldwide attractions after launching its debut product, a free-roam multiplayer zombie shooter which tracks the entire human body. [more...]

INDUSTRY NEWS

21 Jun 2017

Paramount splits from £3.2bn Kent theme park project

London Resort Company Holdings (LRCH) – the developer behind the Paramount theme park in Kent – has announced a surprise split from the film studio, which was to act as the masthead for the multi-billion-pound attraction. [more...]