The visitors boost the economy and the films, which feature gay cowboys eating pudding, are better than expected.
Tate Modern – in fourth position – welcomed a record 5.78 million visitors, boosted by its Matisse exhibition, while Oxford's Ashmolean Museum saw numbers swell by 15% thanks to the popularity of the exhibitions of the work of Francis Bacon, Henry Moore and Cezanne.
According to a study conducted with use of the money generation model, park visitors boosted the local economy by 14.2 million Euros in 2008 (Metsähallitus and Metla [Finnish Forest Research Institute; Helsinki, Finland] 2009).
If there was going to be a positive outcome on the final day the visitors, boosted by two late Monty Panesar wickets on day three, needed to make brisk progress on the fourth morning but Taylor and Shazhad were defiant.
The visitors, boosted by six returning Scotland internationals and seeking a first away win over Leinster since 2011, broke the deadlock in the 13th minute, with a multi-phase attack that finished with the 19-year-old prop Fagerson muscling over from close range.
Andrew Murphy, the director of customer service at John Lewis, said overseas visitors were boosting business, but he added that the London stores were also useful indicators of the state of the wider economy: they had been hit first and hardest by the beginning of the downturn, and now seemed to emerging from the recession first, too.
"Compare that to the Tower of London - they have over 2 million visitors". She said boosting annual visitor numbers could help to pay for improvements both to Windsor Castle and to the Victoria and Albert Mausoleum, which had been waiting 18 years for repairs.
The company opened Walt Disney Studios adjacent to the main Disneyland Park in March 2002, hoping to draw more visitors and boost revenues.
Andreas hopes that this renewed investment in the area will bring more visitors and boost the local economy.
