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Record shopping by tourists to UK in 2012, but France is still 8 times that

Laura Chesters

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These numbers are good in actual amount, but macro trends on number of visitors, especially from Europe, are trending lower.

Overseas tourists to the UK spend more than £4.5bn in Britain's shops each year, with "personal shopping" requests a growing trend for the worlds' super wealthy. A new survey by the national tourism agency VisitBritain found the £4.5bn spent in shops in 2011 was up more than 7 per cent on the previous year. Initial data for 2012 rev

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