Eden Project losses more than double as visits fall

THE Eden Project has revealed tumbling visitor numbers and losses more than doubling after a difficult year that saw the attraction axe jobs.

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The Cornish ecological centre reported a 10% drop in visitors in the year to March 31, to 543,000 compared with 604,000 the previous year, as it faced “more challenging trading conditions in South West tourism”.

The group slumped deeper into the red with pretax losses of £3.5 million, against losses of £1.5 million the previous year, according to the latest set of filed accounts.