The 'ghost town' Games, London Olympics 2012: Shops, theatres and businesses all empty as visitor l

[aadyy]

Overblown warnings of Olympics travel chaos are turning key sites into ghost towns and threatening Britains economic recovery, say business leaders.Messages to stay away from London and other key venues have worked too well, with visitor numbers suffering catastrophic falls.Incredibly, almost a third of the five million people employed in the capital are expected to heed official advice to work from home at some point over the fortnight to avoid disruption which has failed to materialise.

Bare: Overblown warnings of Olympics travel chaos are turning key sites into 'ghost towns' and threatening Britain's economic recovery, say business leaders. This image shows an empty Westfield shopping centre at Shepherds Bush at lunchtime yesterday

Empty: Messages to stay away from London and other key venues have worked too well, with visitor numbers suffering catastrophic falls. A usually heavily congested Blackwall Approach is virtually deserted

Leading attractions, meanwhile, are reporting visitor numbers down by a third on the same period last year.Experts insist that even if the short-term economic benefits of hosting the Games do not materialise, Britain will enjoy incalculable longer-term benefits in terms of increased trade and tourism.


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[jaanmark]

totally fail project Olympic 2012 London .games and economy can not go to gather.

Economy is a serious mater and game is for fun , one side 65 million people to deal with their income and look after and other side just hardly 25 thuosen people for their eyes fun spend 3 billion pound that is 3,000,000,000 just on dramas+ 1.500,000,000 spend on security name which a Swedish company take money and not done the job too +loss of national income in

unlimited billion pound and no news TVs or news paper write about it which they are proud to be a free from any fear to says or print like we in Pakistan free media which is funded by USA/UK.

 

[Dengue]

well majority of their income come frm tourist of middleast .. arabs spend alot more then common tourist in britain and rite now because of ramadan everyone is back to home country .. so i dont think there is any chance of tourists ...

 

[Clear]

well majority of their income come frm tourist of middleast .. arabs spend alot more then common tourist in britain and rite now because of ramadan everyone is back to home country .. so i dont think there is any chance of tourists ...

You ever been to London? You won't see many Arabs their doing shopping and not all Arab ar rich.

London attracts tourists from all over the world and most of them come from europe due to rail and bus link between London and France.