ALVA | Association of Leading Visitor Attractions

Continuum Group Ltd: Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth
Forestry Commission: The Forestry Commission: 'The Gruffalo' trail
Victoria and Albert Museum: 'Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up'
Zoological Society of London: Whipsnade Zoo, Bedfordshire
National Football Museum: Manchester
Warner Bros. Studio Tour London: The Making of Harry Potter
National Trust: Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland
Eden Project: Cornwall
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust: Slimbridge, Gloucestershire
Titanic Belfast: Queen's Island, Belfast.
Historic Scotland: Edinburgh Castle
Royal Albert Hall:
Treasure Houses of England: Leeds Castle, Kent
English Heritage: Stonehenge, Wiltshire
Royal Collection Trust: Windsor Castle

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

23 July 2019

ALVA Board meeting and Summer Lunch

Farrer & Co, London

24 July 2019

Directors of Public Engagement

Imperial War Museum London (Lambeth site), London

This is the first meeting of a new group of Directors of Public Engagement; looking at outreach work, community programming and initiatives. Guest speaker is Jon Alexander of New Citizenship Project. [more...]

01 August 2019

ALVA Finance Directors' Forum

Farrer & Co, London

16 August 2019

ALVA Scottish Members' forum

Historic Environment Scotland, Edinburgh

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Latest News

ALVA NEWS

27 March 2019

UK SITES INCREASE VISITOR NUMBERS BY 8.68%

Prior to English Tourism Week, the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) announced its members' visitor figures for 2018 today (Wednesday, March 27, 2019), which saw an average increase of 8.68% on 2017 visits to UK attractions, while attractions in Scotland saw the biggest increase of 19.07%. Overall 138, 823, 297 visits were made to the top 249 ALVA sites in the UK. [more...]

INDUSTRY NEWS

12 Jun 2019

London's Science Museum to open gallery charting the city's rise as a scientific power

A telescope that once belonged to Sir Isaac Newton, the microscope used by Robert Hooke to create the captivating drawings of insects and plants in his book Micrographia, and a range of objects commissioned by England's King George III upon his coronation, are among the exhibits at a new permanent gallery in London's Science Museum. [more...]

INDUSTRY NEWS

07 Jun 2019

Plans for Mullin UK car museum get the go-ahead

Proposals for a world-class automotive museum in the heart of the English countryside have moved a step further to realisation after West Oxfordshire District Council awarded outline planning permission for the plans. [more...]