Overview
- A SportsShoes.com eye‑tracking study published in early July asked 200 volunteers to view images of famous hiking routes and produced an 'Eye‑Catching' score to rank the top 20 trails.
- The Calanques de Marseille topped the list, with the UK's Seven Sisters Cliffs Walk and Northern Ireland's Causeway Coast Way placing inside the top 10.
- The study measured visual attention by recording how long participants' gazes lingered on each image rather than judging objective beauty.
- Coverage highlights practical details for visitors to the Seven Sisters, noting it is a demanding about 12‑mile walk from Seaford to Eastbourne that typically takes four to seven hours and offers National Trust facilities and popular photo spots such as Hope Gap and Belle Tout.
- Because the research comes from a commercial retailer and uses a subjective gaze metric, its main likely impact is to shape what images and routes attract walkers and to boost local tourist interest rather than to serve as a definitive ranking of scenic quality.