London welcomed over 3.6 million overseas visits in the first three months of 2014, resulting in the best ever first quarter tourism numbers in the city’s history, according to London & Partners.
The Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England, has unveiled a waxwork figure of the famed author, allowing people to see the face of Jane Austen for the first time.
The city is the destination of choice for international travelers for the third time in four years, according to the annual MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index released today.
The four surviving original copies of the Magna Carta will come together for what organizers say is the first time ever as part of the 800th anniversary celebration of the declaration. Two of the copies are housed at the British Library in London, a third is in Lincoln Cathedral in Lincoln and the fourth in Salisbury Cathedral in Salisbury.
Tickets are now on sale for the limited season of exhibition The Art of the Brick – over 75 artworks created by US artist Nathan Sawaya, using more than a million Lego bricks – at London’s Old Truman Brewery this autumn.
Delta and Virgin Atlantic Airways will transfer operations for nonstop flights connecting London-Heathrow to Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport.