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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Nicholas Cecil and Jonathan Prynn

Tourism to London bounces back… ‘but we still need VAT-free shopping’

Tourism to London is bouncing back after the pandemic with 16 million overnight visits to the capital from people from overseas last year, official figures revealed on Friday.

But the tally was much lower than the 21.7 million in 2019 and prompted more calls for the “tourist tax” to be abolished.

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