Since then visitor numbers have declined to 563,000 in 2009.

The garden was opened to the public in 1987 and by 1989 visitor numbers had reached 36,000.

Visitor numbers are estimated to be up to 3,000 people per day.

And yet the chief impact of his words was to boost visitor numbers.

Few others come here; visitor numbers rarely top 100 in a year.

The council has donated a further £300,000 to help with the increase in visitor numbers.

Visitor numbers for the castle during the 1930s reached 300,000 a year.

The visitor numbers continued to rise, reaching 200,000 in 1939.

It closed in 1998, possibly due to low visitor numbers.

We've only been open a few weeks, but visitor numbers are already up.