The Downton Abbey 影響: Brits flock to period-奮起させるd holidays

By Valentina Jovanovski
Updated: 12:57 BST, 20 September 2011

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With its 最近の Emmy Award 勝利，勝つs and 記録，記録的な／記録する-breaking 見解（をとる）ing 人物／姿／数字s, Downton Abbey is certainly taking the entertainment world by 嵐／襲撃する.

And, によれば new 統計（学）, it is also having an 衝撃 on the travel 産業, as fans flock to period 所有物／資産／財産s to create their own experience of Downton glamour.

The historical 演劇, which 首相d its second season on Sunday night, is 奮起させるing travellers to rediscover the 抱擁する列 of period 所有物／資産／財産s across Britain, with searches for historic 退却／保養地s 急に上がるing just after the first episode 攻撃する，衝突する the 審査するs.

The 演劇 of Downton: The period 演劇 has attracted 記録，記録的な／記録する-breaking audiences

In the 12 hours after Emmy Award-winning Dame Maggie Smith once again pursed her lips as Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, lastminute.com 報告（する）／憶測d a 31 per cent 殺到する in searches for 週末 breaks to period 所有物／資産／財産s.

The 増加する is three times the 上げる received last year when Downton first 攻撃する，衝突する our 審査するs. に引き続いて the 首相 of season one, there was a nine per cent 増加する in 類似の searches.

The 所有物／資産／財産 that 獲得するd the most searches was Tylney Hall in Hampshire, a regal country house hotel with a lush 66 acre garden and parkland ? the Crawleys would feel 権利 at home.

History in the making: テレビ視聴者s flock to period 目的地s

Dumbleton Hall in Cotswolds, a 19th century manor house with 19 acres of 私的な gardens and woodland, was also one of the 最高の，を越す searched 所有物／資産／財産s.

Other 地元のs fit for 王族含むd Forbury Hotel in Reading and Bosworth Hall in Warwickshire.

Eva Bojtos from lastminute.com said: ‘Downton Abbey has taken the country by 嵐／襲撃する, and it comes as no surprise that people are looking to recreate their own period 演劇 experiences.

'At lastminute.com we have a fantastic 選択 of beautiful period 所有物／資産／財産s, perfect for anyone looking to follow in the footsteps of Countess Grantham or Mister Bates.’

With over 11 million テレビ視聴者s in its first season, the series is the most successful period 演劇 since Brideshead Revisited but it is also one of the most expensive television programmes ever produced.

Downton Abbey follows on the heels of the success of another period 演劇, the Tudors, based on the 統治する of King Henry VIII, which 奮起させるd its own tourist 利益／興味, 含むing a 小旅行する of the 議論の的になる king's many palaces to see the 衣装s featured in the series.

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