Category: BBC
Date: 01.12.2005
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BBC Tours has won the silver award in the Tour London Category of the Visit London Awards.
Some 50,000 people visit BBC Tours each year to see the corporation's Television Centre in Wood Lane, west London.
Nine tours of the centre are held daily, Monday to Saturday, and a new CBBC tour has been introduced for children.
Tim Davie, BBC Director of Marketing, Communications and Audiences, said: "This is a fantastic achievement by everybody involved with BBC Tours and is all the more impressive when you consider that London has so many attractions to visit.
"Thanks to BBC Tours thousands of people have enjoyed an insight into what goes on behind the scenes at Television Centre."
On the tours visitors are likely to see television studios, BBC News and get the chance to use an interactive studio.
On the CBBC tour, children also see studios where CBBC presenters work and may visit the Blue Peter garden.
BBC Tours took the silver award behind the London Eye in the Tour London category. Last year the London Eye was voted the world's leading attraction by travel agents worldwide.
Notes to Editors
BBC Tours' past awards include:
Winner of the 2003 Group Travel Awards in category of Best Guided Tour Experience;
English Tourism Council - Quality assured visitor attraction;
Winner of the London Tourism Awards 2002 best sightseeing tour in London category.
Tours last 90 minutes to two hours, and run Monday to Saturday at 10.00am, 10.20am, 10.40am, 1.15pm, 1.30pm, 1.45pm, 3.30pm, 3.45pm and 4.00pm.
Tours must be booked in advance by calling 08706 03 03 04.
