Steve Varsano on how London's visitors have changed since COVID. Russian and Asian tourists have largely vanished. U.S. arrivals are at about half their pre-pandemic levels, shifting the entire mix of who walks through the city.
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Of course, you don't have any Russians here. Asian and China, they're not coming here as much. Before COVID we had a lot more activity coming through the show. There's no question about it. But here in London, you know, it's a completely different neighborhood now because COVID sort of prevented anybody from America or most places in the world to come here for 2 years. It was on, off, on, off. So people found other places to go that they wanted to vacation or visit for business, and they didn't return. So maybe half the people from the US are back here. So you're seeing now much more and more in the last few months of people coming, but It's completely a different mix than it was before.