Titanic Belfast profits up nearly 60%

Profits at one of the country’s most popular visitor attractions, Titanic Belfast, jumped by 57% last year to £1.25m (€1.44m).

Newly-filed accounts, for the 12 months to the end of last March, show that revenues at the attraction’s holding company marginally increased from £11.6m to £11.9m. During the year, the centre — which celebrates Belfast’s status as the birthplace of the ill-fated passenger liner — attracted 638,000 visitors.

In its first four years of operation, the attraction has welcomed 2.6m visitors.