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every Friday morning. But now what has been happening on Friday the 11th of June? Well, an exciting

day for domestic tourism in the UK because the tourism recovery plan has been made.

This is an interesting enterprise. It says that there is going to be a return to 2019 numbers of incoming tourists, basically 41 million people spending 28 billion

pounds by 2023, which is quite, I think, in the circumstances and ask. The UK has written off domestic tourism for the last 15 months and definitely there is a

case for saying that once the ban on people coming in from the European Union on their

identity cards is completed, which will happen from October,

then there will be yet another no entry sign going up to many, many millions of Europeans

who might want to come here who simply won't be able to because they won't be prepared to go and get their passport specially.

But I hope genuinely that I'm wrong and that I will be able to eat my words that things will return to

2023 levels but the signs aren't great. It's an interesting time also for Heathrow Airport.

They have announced today, and of course this is the main gateway for most people coming in from the UK,

coming into the UK from abroad, and said well their incoming numbers and outgoing numbers

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