England’s Historic Cities carry out an annual benchmarking exercise to evaluate their collective contribution to England’s visitor economy and provide insights into changes and trends over time. The information provided in the dashboard below is provisional and indicative and represents data received from most but not all of the cities in the consortium.
A total of over
67 million
Visitors in 2024
Over 1.7 million visitors came from overseas to visit the Historic Cities in 2024
60 million tourism visits made by Day Visitors in 2024
A total of £12.3 billion was generated through visitor and tourism business
Day Visits generated £6.9 billion in 2024
Visitors in EHC cities over covid supported
123,448 FTE jobs
In total, overseas visitors generated a total economic impact of
£638 million
TRENDS
24 vs 23
Economic Impact grew by 6.38% YOY same cities 24 vs 23
Overall Visitor Numbers grew by 2.31% YOY — when comparing the same cities 24 vs 23