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andrewducker- New Zealand trade deal is 'disgrace', says UK government climate adviser
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- White House delays release of JFK assassination files "to protect against identifiable harm"
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- The UK's independent press standards organisation produced a report on trans people. The lead author is a transphobic bigot
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- A prop master on how prop guns can lead to deadly accidents.
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- 20Y study finds little evidence religiosity leads to greater life satisfaction
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- Royalty is not a huge tourism draw to England
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- UK teens are only getting one vaccination dose, making them unvaccinated as far as travel regulations go
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- Long-term brain damage caused by Covid
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- Paris To Become 100% Cyclable City Within Four Years
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Date: 2021-10-25 12:39 am (UTC)3. Appalling. Not an appointment to be tolerated at all. Roeber should be fired for cause (or whatever the appropriate term is for the UK).
Royalty as a Tourist Attraction
Date: 2021-10-25 10:48 am (UTC)I think it's a raw list of visitor numbers. IIRC 6 of the top ten attractions are free to the public and are very, very large public museums open every day of the year. That's not true of Buckingham Palace which isn't open all year round.
Royalty as a tourist draw is not the same thing as actually being able to go inside Buckingham Palace.
The Tower of London at 8th on the list and Hampton Court Palace which is 29th on the list surely draws a lot of tourist interest because of royal connections. (See also Holyrood Palace and Stirling Castle in Scotland.)
One could, if one were being silly or disingenous point at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the *Royal* Botanic Gardens, Westminster Abbey (royal burial and wedding venue,) the Old *Royal* Naval College etc to paint a very different picture of the impact of royalty on tourism in England.