Record number of big-spending tourists expected in UK this summer
Despite recent terror attacks, Britain can expect a huge influx of foreign visitors, especially from the US and China
Travel & leisure
UK enjoys record tourism as fall in pound boosts visitor numbers
ONS says weaker sterling since Brexit vote led to 37.3m visits to UK in 2016, with big rise in North American tourists
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: faces of the new ‘global citizen class’?
Research finds tens of thousands of ultra-rich individuals buying multiple homes in the planet’s most desirable locations
Qatar wins approval to turn US embassy in London into hotel
Westminster council accepts plan to build 137-room hotel in Grade II-listed building in Grosvenor Square
Robert De Niro gets go-ahead to open London hotel
Actor’s third hotel, the Wellington, will be a luxury 83-bedroom boutique establishment in Covent Garden
Abu Dhabi could buy luxury Mayfair hotels from Barclay brothers
But long-standing minority shareholder Paddy McKillen believes complex legal agreements between the shareholders effectively weaken the brothers’ hand