Middle Eastern tourists spent £888 million in London in 2014, leading many luxury retailers to offer VIP treatment around Ramadan, including Arabic speaking concierges and chauffeurs. What’s this group’s ideal shopping experience? And how can brands target consumers that already have it all?

Why do tourists come to the UK? To wonder at Windsor Castle? To hike in the Scottish Highlands? 2015 figures from VisitBritain show that 800,000 international visitors to the UK in 2014 went to watch a football match. And these footy fans are spending big while they are abroad.

In place of a work-to-live mentality, work has become a lifestyle choice for Gen Y, extending into their travel plans. Others go abroad to spend, with visitors to NYC spending 25% of their travel money on shopping. The second in our two-part series looks at travelling to work and shop.

In the run up to the EU referendum, the pound slumped to a seven-year low back in February, and as a result, confidence in the economy plunged, with consumer spending falling to the lowest level in two years. With a lacklustre start to the year, how quickly can the economy recover?