On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 01:09:34PM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 12:07:29
on Fri, 17 Apr 2015, David Cantrell remarked:
But people running businesses in London, and their employees, have a
vested interest in tourists not being treated badly and failing to
return (or even come in the first place if they've heard bad reports).
Most businesses in London are places like Robert's Greengrocer, on
Bristock Road, CR7. I really doubt that Robert or his minion give a ****
about tourists.
As far as I could see on Wednesday, pretty much every shop in Oxford
Street depends on tourists.

So? Oxford Street and places like it make up a tiny proportion of
London. The whole of the central area (which I'm defining as the area
that was considered for the Central London borough in 1959, which never
happened) is just 30km^2, and even that includes large residential areas
and loads of businesses that care not a jot about tourists. I'd estimate
that Oxford Street and its ilk make up no more than 0.5% of London.

Incidentally, are you *sure* that all the shops on Oxford Street depend
on tourists? HMV, for example? High and Mighty? Primark? And then
there's all the businesses there which aren't shops. There are almost
as many of those as shops, and I'm pretty damned sure that businesses
like Empire magazine care not a jot for tourists.

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