When people visit UK/london..

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What are the actual attractions? I’m genuinely curious.. when we have tourists come to London.. for a holiday.. not to visit family or friends, what is it they’ve come for?m

You can’t be that dense.

Just google "top 10 attractions in xxxx"

What @justasmallbiz said.

Last week, I had three American visitors asking me how to get to Angel Islington from the Tower of London. Someone had told them it was a good place to visit. Still confused about that one!

It's usually the Shopping Centre in Croydon and the old Trocadero centre that draw visions from across the world.

Apart from museums, art galleries etc., you’ve got some big shops like Hamleys toy shop, Harrods’, Fortnums . Then you’ve got all the shows that are only on in London.

I don't know much about London but Beatrix Potter is HUGE in East Asia. The stage show went to the London West End, Taïwan and Hong Kong, (Nowhere in between) and the visitor centre in the Lakes seems very popular with them.

I first noticed this in the 90's when I was on the obligatory Lancashire teenagers' "Nearly Die Walking Around Ullswater" school geography field trip and thinking, "Why are there so many Japanese people here?"

It's often very hard to tell what will draw people and I've worked in tourism and hospitality all my life.

Fun fact: The Middleton sisters share great grandparents with Beatrix Potter.

Every time I walk past Parliament, there are long queues of people wanting to take selfies outside the two nearby red phone boxes so they can get Big Ben in the background.

They make me laugh, but at the same time I can see it’s an iconic shot.

I would have said a boat trip down the Thames and London Eye, houses of parliament, tower of London, Greenwich and cutty sark, Harrods, liberty and Hamley's, Kew gardens, buck palace and marne arch for starters. Ride on an open top bus maybe.

Tower of London, London dungeons, Buckingham palace, science museum, history museum, V and A, imperial war museum to name a few without really thinking about it

Surely it's an Angus Steak House and Buckingham Palace so the tourist money generated can flood into the UK.

To see the Pearly Queens and Dick Van Dyke dancing on the rooftops

History, art, architecture, theatre, the parks, shops, the food...
Variety of vibes: Camden, Soho, Hampstead, Highgate, Docklands, Greenwich, Covent Garden...

Big Tesco

I was in the Lakes this summer and I met a confused tourist who thought Beatrix Potter was Harry Potter’s mum and the house was like a Harry Potter prequel experience- kind of begged the question as to whether she thought Harry Potter is real but I didn’t get that far.

Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s cathedral.

M and M world.

Imagine being that rude.

thank you, just the kind of list I was hoping for!
i assume that the weather doesn’t affect this then..

I’ve always wanted to do borough market!

is it more for people who like history would you say?

Nelson Mandela House, Peckham.

Theatre, food and museums for me personally.

History, shopping, historical shopping, theatre, music.

Buckingham Palace, Tower of London, Piccadilly Circus, Churchill War Rooms, Trafalgar Square, Bond Street, Oxford Street, Carnaby Street still I guess, Hard Rock Cafe London, afternoon tea, shows.

Are you in the UK? I’m confused that you’re asking this question.

Buckingham Palace, changing of the guards, Covent Garden, South bank, ice skating at Somerset/Battersea Power Station, the London Eye, any of the dozens of museums, St Paul’s, Westminster Abbey, Parliament/Big Ben, Tower Bridge/Tower of London, King’s Rd, West End, theatres, Piccadilly Circus, Portobello Market, Harrods, Camden Market, the Serpentine, any of the parks, the shopping, river cruise, concerts, sports (Wimbledon Tennis, cricket, football, etc), the list goes on….

When it comes to visitor attractions, London is the greatest city in the world. I'm staggered that you even feel the need to ask.