The UK will get a £115 million boost when the Tour de France starts here for the first time next July, Transport for London (TfL) announced today.
TfL expect an estimated two million visitors from across the world to visit London and Kent during the three days the Tour will spend in the UK from 6 to 8 July 2007. The Grand Depart?s organisers say the Tour will pass through London landmarks, such as Big Ben, the London Eye, St Paul?s Cathedral and the Gherkin, before finishing at Canterbury cathedral.
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