Visitors to the UK take 190,000 train journeys and spend £2.5m every HOUR: Real-time infographic reveals what tourists are up to around Britain
- A new interactive infographic reveals what foreign tourists are up to in the UK on a real-time basis
- Visitors take over 3,100 trains every minute, with an average of 4,400 tourists heading to the beach per hour
- £100m is spent each month on fish and chips, with 405 cups of tea served by the National Trust per hour
Nearly 100,000 visitors enter the UK every day.
And spending a combined £2.5 million every hour, they're clearly busy.
According to this new infographic - which reveals what foreign tourists are doing and how they are spending their cash on a real-time basis - a whopping £100 million, for example, is spent each month on fish and chips alone.
As for moving around, visitors take more than 190,000 train journeys per hour - that's upwards of 3,100 a minute.
Visits to British beaches average around 5,400 per hour, while the Tower of London draws in a lesser number of 322 an hour, and Stone Henge only attracts 93.
The following interactive counter, created by Character Cottages, charts everything from how much tea is being served by the National Trust, to how many British gig tickets are flying off the shelves at any one time.
Scroll down (below) to see the numbers climb, and click on each 'postage stamp' to see quantities per hour, day and month
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