BRITISH travellers find Paris's Eiffel Tower and Egypt's pyramids a bore and much prefer to flock to some of Australia's top tourist spots, a survey has found.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge, Kings Canyon in the Northern Territory and Broome's Cable Beach have made it into a top 10 list of the best foreign tourist spots for British tourists.
Two of Paris's renowned sites - the Eiffel Tower and Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa at the Louvre - were rated the least impressive foreign sightseeing spots for British travellers.
New York's bustling Times Square and Statue of Liberty, the famous street of Las Ramblas in Barcelona, the White House in Washington DC, Egypt's historic pyramids and Rome's romantic meeting place, the Spanish Steps, also got the thumbs down.
Holidaying on home soil also proved a major disappointment for many Brits, with England's prehistoric Stonehenge named the worst tourist spot in the UK.
Some of London's major attractions - Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, the London Eye and the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain - fared little better, according to the survey of 1267 British tourists by Virgin Travel Insurance.
Joining the three Australian tourist hot spots in the top 10 foreign attractions was the Grand Canal in Venice, the Treasury monument at Petra in Jordan and Kenya's Masai Mara.
Top 10 tourist sights
1. The Treasury, Petra, Jordan, The Grand Canal, Venice, The Masai Mara, Kenya, Sydney, Harbour Bridge, Taroko Gorge, Taiwan, Kings Canyon, Australia, Cappadaocia Caves, Turkey
Lake Titicaca, Peru and Bolivia, Cable Beach, Australia, Jungfraujoch, Switzerland.
By Belinda Tasker
