Harry Potter Now UK’s Top Tourist Attraction

By Vivian Ho | GlobalPost LONDON — Stonehenge has one serious challenger for most popular tourist attraction of England: Harry Potter, boy wizard, and all the locations he has fictionally touched. Britain is an island steeped in thousands of years of history, but more and more people at drawn by J.K. Rowling’s children’s books about the magical world of wizards. Visitors can tour Christ College, the film inspiration for the Great Hall; Leadenhall Market, also known as Diagon Alley; and the London Zoo, where Harry Potter accidentally frees a snake in the first film. They can also visit Oxford and Gloucester, whose cathedral serves as a hallway of Hogwarts. “We do a lot of big tours, and Harry Potter is one of the bigger ones,” said British Tours operator Jason Doll-Steinberg.
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