The tourism slump to the UK triggered by Brexit is continuing. The annual VisitBritain forecast for inbound tourism shows spending is sharply down compared with 2019. This was the last year before the Covid pandemic – and also before the UK left the European Union.
The inbound tourism organisation predicts a record 43.4 million visits in 2025, with spend of £33.7 billion. That will be 19 per cent above the amount that foreign tourists spent in the last pre-Covid, pre-Brexit year, 2019 – but, allowing for inflation, around 9 per cent down.
One of the Brexit decisions taken by Boris Johnson’s government was to ban more than 200 million European Union citizens from travel to the UK using their identity cards. European travellers can…
