Eden employs circa 350 people and gives another 150 people the opportunity to volunteer. Since opening to the public in 2001, the place has attracted more than 18 million visitors and inspired an economic renaissance in Cornwall by contributing more than £1.7 billion to the local economy.

We are an educational charity and social enterprise. Our global mission is to create a movement that builds relationships between people and the natural world to demonstrate the power of working together for the benefit of all living things.

Inspiration. Grimshaw’s starting point was the geodesic system made famous by the American architect Buckminster Fuller, who designed the Montreal Biosphere in Canada. Before Eden, Grimshaw had designed a similar structure for Waterloo International Station in London.

The project which has been a phenomenal success and become one of the country’s best loved attractions in just five years won “best of the best” prize in the British Construction Industry’s (BCI) 20th anniversary awards while the Channel Tunnel was named the top civil engineering project.

the Millennium Commission
1. The Eden Project Opened in 2001. Funded by the Millennium Commission and intended as a way of re-energising the Southwest, the Eden Project opened in March of 2001.

The Eden Project (Cornish: Edenva) is a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England, UK. The project is located in a reclaimed china clay pit, located 2 km (1.2 mi) from the town of St Blazey and 5 km (3 mi) from the larger town of St Austell….

Sir Tim Smit KBE
Tim Smit

Lots to enjoy indoors: our Biomes and the Core building are all undercover. Don’t miss some of our indoor highlights that tend to be quieter than the Biomes, such as the giant breathing Infinity Blue sculpture and the Seed sculpture in the Core.

The Eden Project is located in Cornwall, near St. Austell, on the site of a former china clay mine. It was opened in 2001.

The large amount of tourism that is created by the Eden Project has has huge effects on the local area. The positive and negative impacts of the Eden Project are illustrated below. From its opening in March in 2001 to the end of 2009 the Eden Project contributed £1 billion to the Cornish Economy. [7]

Case Study of Tourism in Cornwall: The Eden Project. Behind the construction of the Eden Project is a man called Tim Smit. Project. that is a tourist attraction. and fauna and other aspects of the natural world. The Eden Project was constructed in a 160-year-old exhausted china clay quarry at Bodelva, near St. Austell, in Cornwall.

Imaginative and highly ambitious regeneration project which turned a redundant quarry into an immensely successful visitor attraction of national and international stature. Gaining the support of, and involving, local people throughout has been a key aspect of the project’s success.