Analysis: State of the Pound Should Tempt More Visitors, but There's a Bigger Picture

The ScotsmanMarch 02, 2009

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LAST summer, if you were visiting Florida, a pound would buy you dollars 2. Today, it fetches around a quarter less. With UK interest rates at their lowest level since 1694, the pound has also reached near parity with the euro - making buying a cup of coffee at a European airport a painful experience.

But if travelling Brits get poorer as the pound falls in value, foreign visitors to Britain should get a lot more for their money. So why aren't they flocking to Scotland in droves?

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Analysis: State of the Pound Should Tempt More Visitors, but There's a Bigger Picture

In fact, the number of foreign tourists coming to the UK in 2008 dropped by 2 per c...

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