Leicestershire tourism ‘booming’, show new figures
More than 33 million people visited Leicester and Leicestershire last year, with a million more visitors choosing to spend time in the area in 2016 than in the previous year.
According to new figures published this summer, 10.81m people visited the city of Leicester last year, compared with 10.36m in 2015 – while visitors to Leicestershire were up from 21.82m in 2015 to 22.58m.
This means that tourism is now worth more than £600m to the city’s economy and £1.156bn to the county’s.
The increase in numbers – and the 5... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
