U.K.’s Tourism Numbers Still Slow To Recover

LONDON— The number of overseas visitors to the United Kingdom has continued to pick up, according to a recent report on caterer.com, with a rise of more than 4% in the three months to June 30, 2002, when compared with the same period last year. The second quarter saw 6.5 million visitors, compared with 6.28 million for the same period in 2001, when the U.K. was in the grip of the foot-and-mouth crisis. However, the latest figures are still below those of the second quarter of 2000 when 6.7 million people visited the U.K., suggesting that Sept. 11 is still affecting the tourist industry. The figures, from the latest International Passenger Survey from the Office for National Statistics, show that the numbers of U.K. residents traveling abroad also increased by 4% to 16.3 million. SOURCE: caterer.com