UK tourism did great with new growth economies in 2012, but Europe's numbers are stagnating
Skift Take
UK's push towards Asian/emerging economies is a necessary one, as the short-haul inbound European market is stagnating or shrinking.
VisitBritain has come out with its 2012 annual review and while 2012 overall numbers are decent, especially from new visitors from BRIC and emerging countries, the trendlines from the traditional tourism drivers aren't.
Taking all types of visits together – holidays, business trips, visits to friends and relatives and so on the number of visits in the past twelve months is little changed on, the year before and still has some way to go in order to recoup the losses seen following
