Outdoor venues performed particularly well last year as lockdown restrictions eased in the UK.
Two giraffes pictured at Chester Zoo, one of the top five UK visitor attractions last year
But while visitor numbers were up 25% on 2020, overall they remain 57% lower than 2019, before the Covid outbreak. The average number of days that sites were closed in 2021 when they normally would have been open was 99, equivalent to 31% of regular opening days. On average, sites that provided an international figure reported that just 4% of visits in the past year were made by visitors from overseas - a result of tight travel restrictions.
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