Joint working improving visitor numbers says MNH

Tuesday, 14 October 2014 00:00

More than 320,000 visits were made to Manx National Heritage sites over the last year.

Visitor numbers have increased significantly helping to improve revenues - director Edmund Southworth says things are starting to pick up:

The group travel market increased by seven per cent and there were 16,000 National Trust visits - 33 per cent more than in 2012.

The success is being attributed to a tourism steering group which sees the sector working closer together:

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