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Tourism in the United Kingdom. Tourism in the United Kingdom is a major industry and contributor to the U.K. economy, which is the world's 10th biggest tourist destination, with over 40.1 million visiting in 2019, contributing a total of £234 billion to the GDP. [ 1][ 2] £23.1 billion was spent in the UK by foreign tourists in 2017.
Tourism plays a significant part in the economic life of England. In 2018, the United Kingdom as a whole was the world's 10th most visited country for tourists, [2] and 17 of the United Kingdom's 25 UNESCO World Heritage Sites fall within England. [3] VisitEngland is the official tourist board for England. VisitEngland 's stated mission is to ...
Attraction Ranking Rank Museum Location Country Visitors (2022) [1] 1: Windsor Great Park: Berkshire: England: 5,636,844 2: Natural History Museum: London: England
Import goods. £3.4 billion (2021) [ f][ 4] The economy of Manchester is among the largest in England. Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester. It lies within the United Kingdom's second-most populous urban area, with a population of 2.55 million. [ 5] Manchester's commercial centre is in Manchester city centre ...
The economy of the United Kingdom is a highly developed social market economy. [ 26][ 27][ 28] It is the sixth-largest national economy in the world measured by nominal gross domestic product (GDP), ninth-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP), and twenty-first by nominal GDP per capita, constituting 3.1% of nominal world GDP. [ 29]
Regions of the United Kingdom by GRP per capita in 2018. This article is about the gross regional product (GRP) per capita of regions of the United Kingdom, defined as Level 2 regions of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS 2), in nominal values. Values are shown in euros in the original source.
The travel and tourism sector in the United Kingdom contributed GBP66.3 billion to the gross domestic product (GDP), 3.4% of total GDP in 2016 and is expected to rise by 2.2% pa, from 2017 to 2027, to GBP84.6 billion, which could comprise up to 3.6% of the total GDP in 2027. [5] [better source needed]
United Kingdom is ranked 2 out of 180 countries in the Environmental Performance Index. [124] A law has been passed that greenhouse gas emissions will be net zero by 2050 in England. The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has said it would be affordable. [125] [126] The target for 2030 is a 68% reduction compared with 1990 levels. [127]