Top 10 Ranking for Windermere Lake Cruises Cumbria Tourism
New figures show Windermere Lake Cruises officially returned to the top ten list of ‘paid for’ visitor attractions in England in 2021 despite ongoing disruption caused by the global pandemic.
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t’s ranked 4th most visited “paid for” attraction nationally in the VisitEngland list having attracted 1,065,707 visitors in 2021 despite the year beginning with a third national Covid lockdown. The figures show a strong recovery following the disruption of the global pandemic in 2020. The Managing Director of Windermere Lake Cruises, Nigel Wilkinson MBE, says: “We are very pleased to have been able to return to a Top Ten ranking after being particularly hard hit with the onset of Covid in 2020. “The recovery in visitor numbers in 2021 is testament to all the hard work of our teams in developing systems and
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procedures to be able to operate in a Covid secure manner. They provided customers with confidence that they could visit Windermere safely and enjoyably.” Nigel adds: “I would like to thank colleagues at all levels within the business for their much-valued contributions and help in getting us through a very diffi cult period.” The latest Annual Visitor Attractions Survey collated by VisitEngland, the national tourism body, shows the company’s 17-strong fleet of “steamers”, modern and wooden launches carried out a total of 1,065,707 passenger journeys during 2021. In the North West region, the attraction is ranked as the second most popular ‘paid-for’ attraction just below Chester Zoo. It’s sister-attraction the Lakeland Motor Museum is ranked at number 18 on the list. Other Cumbrian ‘paid-for’ attractions featuring in the regional top 20 include Ullswater Steamers (8th) the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway (11th) Sizergh Castle (13th) Hill Top (16th) and Lake District Coast Aquarium (20th)
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