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Bury St Edmunds Tour Guides in the top 10% of attractions worldwide
Winners in Travellers’ Choice Awards 2024
Reviews of Bury St Edmunds Tour Guides via Tripadvisor have resulted in them being rated in the top 10% attractions worldwide, classing them as a winner in the Travellers’ Choice Awards for 2024.
Every year, Tripadvisor award travellers’ favourite destinations, hotels, restaurants, and things to do around the world, based on reviews and ratings collected over 12 months. So their Travellers’ Choice Awards Best of the Best winners are decided by real travellers from all over, sharing real opinions and stories.
Marketing Officer John Saunders explained, “At the end of our tours customers are invited to post their feedback on our Tripadvisor webpage and 236 have rated us as excellent or very good, giving us worldwide recognition and making us the top favourite attraction for visitors to the town. These reviews show consistent satisfaction with tour content and delivery and the comments make for good reading.”
The reviews cover the daily tours, their ghostly and macabre evenings and the recent popular Masters of the Air tours.
The guides have continued to attract record numbers of people from the town, other parts of the U K and many countries from abroad.
All available tours continue to be advertised at www.burystedmundstourguides.org and will soon include a special September tour for dog-lovers as well as the return of Masters of the Air.
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