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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Jonathan Prynn

No more ghost town: West End revival as sales beat pre-pandemic levels

The West End has staged a remarkable revival from the “ghost town” depths of the pandemic with sales now regularly beating pre-Covid levels as tourists flood back, new figures show.

Almost exactly a year on from the lifting of the last Covid restrictions, data from the New West End Company (NWEC) — which represents hundreds of businesses on Oxford Street, Regent Street and Bond Street as well as in Mayfair — reveal how strongly London’s shopping and entertainment district has bounced back.

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