The graph shows how many people visited four categories of tourist attractions and five different amusement parks in Britain in 1999.
Overall, theme parks and museums and galleries were the two most popular attraction types in the year examined, with Blackpool Pleasure Beach receiving by far the highest percentage of tourists in the theme park sector.
Specifically, the proportions of visitors in theme parks and museums and galleries were almost comparable, at 38% and 37% respectively, both of which were over two times higher than those of historic houses and monuments (16%). This pattern can also be seen in the figure for historic houses and monuments compared to that of wildlife parks and zoos (9%).
In the amusement park sector, the highest tourist proportion (47%) was seen in Blackpool Pleasure Beach, higher than the figures for Alton Towers (17%) and Pleasureland in Southport (16%) combined. Finally, Chessington World of Adventures and Legoland in Windsor were the two least visited theme parks, at 10% each.
