World Tourism Day is a big day for Yorkshire - one of the UK’s most loved destinations.
On Tourism Day in 2018, Yorkshire attracted 129.8 million visitors from all over the world and £5.066 billion was spent.
In 2017, York was rated twelfth among The 15 Best Cities in the UK for visitors in a Conde Nast Traveler survey.
We asked The Yorkshire Post readers to name their favourite attractions across God’s Own Country.
If you’re planning a holiday to Yorkshire, here are locals’ top recommendations.
9. North York Moors
The Moors is a Yorkshire treasure used as a backdrop for filming various TV shows and movies like The Runaways with Mark Addy (2020), The Secret Garden with Colin Firth and Julie Walters (2020), and Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop with Kelsey Grammer, Caroline Quentin and Natalie Cox (2020). It consists of one of the largest expanses of heather moorland in the UK and the area was a designated National Park in 1952 through the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949. There are 12,000 archeological sites and features dotted around the North York Moors National Park and radio carbon dating of pollen grains preserved in the moorland contains a record of plant species that has existed at different periods in history. The National Park attracts 8.38 million visitors every year, generating a spend of £730 million. Photo: Jonathan Gawthorpe