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THE ASSOCIATION OF LEADING VISITOR ATTRACTIONS (ALVA) POSTPONE ACTIVITY AROUND ITS MEMBERS' VISITOR FIGURES FOR 2019 UNTIL A LATER DAY

24 March 2020: Bernard Donoghue (Director) of The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions has just issued the below statement, and we ask that media, members and key stakeholders DO NOT issue and use the figures from 2019 until a later date.

“In the light of the Prime Minister's statement last night and the severe restrictions on leaving home, we feel that to issue the results of last year's bumper year for visitor attractions would be inappropriate when all of our members are closed and are facing challenging times. We will issue the data later in the Spring.

He continues: “All of our attractions have fantastic websites and we encourage members of the public to visit them, see the diversity and breadth of their collections, people, places and stories, and use this time at home to create their own 'UK tourism bucket list' of places they will visit when attractions re-open.”

Members are the UK's most popular, iconic and important museums, galleries, palaces, castles, cathedrals, zoos, historic houses, heritage sites, gardens and leisure attractions. The 70 ALVA members manage some nearly 2,200 tourist sites and welcome over 119 million domestic and overseas visitors each year; some 28% of the visits made annually in the United Kingdom.

For further information on ALVA, please visit www.alva.org.uk

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