LEAD: A recent telephone survey of some of the city's popular holiday attractions indicated that tickets for many still remained.

The exhibit was an instant hit, and was and still is one of the major holiday attractions in Pittsburgh.

THE annual proliferation of choral concerts and other holiday attractions will soon be in full bloom.

It has been a holiday attraction since 1920 and it is the oldest large-scale outdoor Christmas lighting venue in the world.

Most of the key holiday attractions are easily accessible, free to the public and designed with children in mind.

Norfolk is a popular tourist destination and has several major examples of holiday attractions.

Variety magazine called it an "oddly misanthropic, occasionally amusing but thoroughly cheerless holiday attraction that is in no way a family film."

He had just two criteria for gauging the worth of a holiday attraction: Was it educational and was it free?

The board will have one of the biggest exhibitions at the fair with 21 towns and holiday attractions taking part.

But the choice of runs for all standards, along with some dramatic off-piste terrain with vertigo-inducing views of the lake, form only a part of the holiday attraction.