AIR

02.23

AIR launches data at Parliamentary Event – presentations by Global Blue, Harrods, Value Retail, AIR and Conservative MPs. The first major set of industry and consumer data shows the real impact of withdrawing tax-free shopping on the behaviour of international visitors, based on actual spending by non-EU international visitors to Europe in 2022, the first full post-pandemic year.

In 2022 Americans visiting Britain were back to 101% of their level of spending in 2019 . However, in France they were at 226% of 2019 spending levels. Visitors to Britain from the GCC states in 2022 spent around 65% of their 2019 level. But in France, they were spending 198% of 2019 levels. There is clear evidence of a mass diversion of spending away from the UK towards France, Spain and Italy.

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