The UK�s tourism industry celebrated last night as the best of the countries visitor attractions were recognised at The Enjoy England Awards for Excellence 2009. London had a successful evening scooping up the Gold Award in the Best Tourism Experience for the London Walks (www.londonwalks.com).

London Walks is one of the oldest urban walking companies in the world and offer a year-round service. The company offers more than 400 different walking tours fronted by 70 world-class guides, including several renowned actors. New themed walks recently added include walks on Gandhi�s London and a mouth-watering Foodies� West End walk.

The award�s judges described the walks as �consistently providing a fun, green, entertaining and value for money experience all year round.�

London also received a further three silver awards which were awarded to the National Theatre for Best Access for all Tourism, ExCeL London took silver in the Business Tourism category and the Best Large Visitor Attraction (Over 100,000 visitors) silver award was given to the Natural History Museum, which recently announced the �78m new Darwin Centre, which is set top open in September of this year.

The annual awards, which are organised by VisitBritain, celebrate the best of British tourism and are in their twentieth year.

Visit London Interim Chief Executive, Sally Chatterjee, said: �We are delighted that such a diverse range of London attractions were successful in this year�s awards. London prides itself on offering a sheer range and depth of attractions, events and history in our city for both business and leisure visitors. We are delighted for all our partners who won the awards last night and we send our congratulations to all the rest who took part.�

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Notes to editors

Visit London is the official visitor organisation for London. A leader in best practice destination marketing, Visit London promotes the UK capital internationally, across Britain and to Londoners targeting leisure and business visitors. Visit London works in partnership with the Mayor of London, the London Development Agency, London Councils and the tourism industry. For broadcast-standard video of London, please visit www.thenewsmarket.com/visitlondon

For images of the �Gold� and �Silver� winners, please visit http://pa.photoshelter.com/c/grahamjepson

For A-roll footage of all the Gold winners, please visit www.itnconsulting.co.uk/enjoyengland

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Jacqueline French Tel : 020 7234 5844 Email: jfrench@visitlondon.com