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Visitors from Middle East are highest spending UK tourists

The Chinese are no longer the biggest spending tourists in the UK. According to Global Blue, the duty free shopping experts, the biggest spending tourists are from the Middle East. A recent survey by Visit Britain shows that tourists from the Middle East are twice as likely as typical visitorsto buy clothes and shoes. Kuwaiti visitors have the...

Fashion

Tourists flood to UK for luxury goods

Tourists looking to buy affordable luxury are coming to the UK in droves. Chinese shoppers, who at home pay hefty taxes on European designer brands, are coming to bag a bargain from beloved brands Burberry, Gucci and Prada, to name but a few. All which can be bought from Bicester Village in Oxfordshire. According to the FT, the changing...

Design

Elderly and plus size shoppers save high street

While the high street may still be facing a gloomy future, fashion ranges catering to larger sizes and older customers, or "plump and grey pound" as it is known, have proven successful. According to the financial times, N Brown, the plus-size shopping retailer, reported that like-for-like sales were 1.6 per cent ahead of last year for the last...