MUMBAI: BBC Tours in the UK has won the silver award in the Tour London Category of the Visit London Awards.

Around 50,000 people visit BBC Tours every year to see the UK pubcaster's television centre in Wood Lane, west London.Nine tours of the centre are held daily, Monday to Saturday, and a new CBBC tour has been introduced for children.

On the tours visitors are likely to see television studios, BBC News and get the chance to use an interactive studio. On the CBBC tour, children also see studios where CBBC presenters work and may visit the Blue Peter garden.

BBC director of marketing, communications and audiences Tim Davie said, "This is a fantastic achievement by everybody involved with BBC Tours and is all the more impressive when you consider that London has so many attractions to visit. Thanks to BBC Tours thousands of people have enjoyed an insight into what goes on behind the scenes at Television Centre."

BBC Tours took the silver award behind the London Eye in the Tour London category. Last year the London Eye was voted the world's leading attraction by travel agents worldwide.