LONDON: 'I don't know if you're aware, but we're living through a pandemic right now,' says Joel Robinson with a smile as he introduces his Jack ...
LONDON:"I don't know if you're aware, but we're living through a pandemic right now," says Joel Robinson with a smile as he introduces his Jack the Ripper tour in London's East End.
Tour guide Joel Robinson leads a group of tourists on a Jack The Ripper tour in London on Aug 24, 2020. London's tourist guides are resuming their work slowly as lockdown restrictions are eased, and adapting to new health and safety rules to curb the spread of the virus.Where before Robinson and walking guides like him played mainly to foreign tourists, now customers are mainly British.
Among the home-grown tourists traipsing around the Ripper's old haunts are Anne and Nick Garner, a couple in their fifties from near Manchester, in northwest England. British tourism promotion body VisitBritain also forecast that the number of foreign tourists will plummet by 73 per cent in 2020, to 11 million people - a drop largely blamed on grounded aircraft and travel restrictions.Tourists queue for the London Eye attraction in central London on Aug 24, 2020.
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