BRITONS still love to be beside the seaside but overseas visitors are giving UK coastal resorts a miss, figures showed today.
Seaside destinations featured strongly in a top 20 list of spots visited in the UK by UK residents last year.
But only one coastal resort - Brighton and Hove - managed to make it into the top 20 for visits by foreign residents.
Resorts in the domestic list included Blackpool, Scarborough, the Isle of Wight, Skegness in Lincolnshire, Bournemouth, Great Yarmouth and Brighton and Hove. London was the top UK destination for foreign travellers last year, receiving nearly 13.9 million visits - 4% up on 2004, the figures from the VisitBritain organisation revealed.
Liverpool had a huge increase in visits from overseas residents last year, soaring 109% to 438,000.
Liverpool was sixth in the foreign visitor list, with Edinburgh second, Manchester third, Birmingham fourth and Glasgow fifth.
London was comfortably the most popular destination for UK visitors with 4.88 million trips.
