The Yorkshire city of Bradford was voted the city travellers least want to visit, a poll of 5,000 people conducted by hotel company Travelodge revealed that not only was Bradford bottom of the list but also other Yorkshire cities such as Wakefield and Ripon as well as other northern cites like Sunderland. Wales also didn’t fair too well with people voting St David’s one of the least attractive as well along with Wells in Somerset, Ely in Cambridgeshire and Lichfield in Staffordshire. Some of the reasons given for disliking all these places were bad weather there, nothing to offer, dislikeable local accents, high crime rate, dangerous, ugly and boring.
London led the list of the most popular and most visited places as well as being the place most people wanted to go to this year, other popular destinations for travellers include Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and York. A boost for some of the more popular destinations like London and Manchester is the transport links with good road, rail and air links available, you can get flights to Manchester, Birmingham or Edinburgh from most UK airports as well as access via train to and from these destinations.
Bradford Council’s strategic director for culture, tourism and sport Jane Glaister, said: “Bradford is a great city to visit. It’s home to the National Media Museum, the most visited museum outside London and host to the nationally acclaimed Bradford Film Festival. Also, Bradford has recently been designated as Unesco City of Film – the only city in the world to achieve this designation.” Not only that, Bradford has good rail links as well as been close to Leeds Bradford Airport
.
Posted in