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London 'fails to pull provincial crowds'


23.07.08

The number of tourists coming to London from the provinces has slowed significantly compared with this time last year because there is no massive crowd-pulling show or exhibition.

That was the word today from Holidaybreak, the specialist travel business whose London citybreaks division fared so well a year ago from big sales of Joseph and Grease and the Tutankhamun and China Warriors exhibitions.

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