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Looking beyond London Tourism body VisitBritain is looking to encourage overseas visitors to venture beyond London and explore what else the UK has to offer. Its new report, The Beyond London Challenge, looks at a variety of strategies to entice visitors from both mature and emerging markets to all parts of the country. “We need to encourage people to come back time after time,” said VisitBritain’s director of strategy Patricia Yates.
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ments industry but also the regulators, particularly the UK’s, who seem so indifferent to the argument that the majority of gambling comes in the shape of the National Lottery. Surprise, surprise, lotteries made a bright start to 2014, with first-quarter on first-quarter sales increasing by 8.9 per cent, the best opening to a new year since 2012. According to the latest report from the World Lottery Association, the growth in global lottery sales was again grounded in strong performances from the Asia-Pacific and Latin American regions, with additional contributions from the North American market and, surprisingly, the European region. Sales among participating European
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lotteries increased by 4.2 per cent on aggregate in the first three months of 2014, as against the first three months of 2013. The silence that could almost deafen you whilst reading your copy of Coinslot is that coming from the antigaming and gambling lobby whose tight lipped shtummer stance is disappointing to say the least. Has anyone considered the fact that the stench of problem gambling emanating from the National Lottery is actually not Chanel No 5, and that those who suggest so have not lost their sense of smell - the’ve just read the catalogue of official reports and surveys on problem gambling that confirm time and time again that lotteries, especialy government backed ones, are more dangerous than arcade machines? Coinslot JUNE 20 - JUNE 26, 2014
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