3-Manchester
3: Manchester
Earning bronze is Manchester, England's second city, with 999k visitors.
Manchester is a key football city and it expected to welcome the Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville-backed Hotel Football in 2014, but the opening was delayed until 2015.
2014 also saw an influx of restaurant openings in Manchester with Ibérica and Marco Pierre White joining the party.
Manchester's county Lancashire was popular with tourists in 2014 with 25 per cent of people visiting for a holiday.