Shoppers shun Christmas sales as footfall drops amid Covid fears
New data reveals a 37.2% decline in footfall compared with 2019, with central London badly affected. …
But Jace Tyrrell, chief executive of the West End Company, which represents shops, hotels and restaurants in central London, told the BBC: “We are still dealing with Covid and we haven’t got international tourists here so it is going to be muted for some time [for] customers coming into the West End.”