Tourist spending down by third as wealthy overseas visitors shun UK over shopping tax imposed by Rishi Sunak when he was Chancellor

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Emily Hawkins

03.11.23

Italy and Spain are much closer to seeing a return to 2019 levels of tourist spending, while in France they are already spending more.

Paul Barnes, head of the Association of International Retail (AIR), said other cities would be ‘rubbing their hands with glee’ over the figures. American and Middle Eastern tourists in particular have returned to rival cities – more than doubling the amount they spend in Paris. But in the UK, spending by US visitors has only recently reached pre-Covid levels.

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