NewswireTODAY - /newswire/ - London, Great London, United Kingdom, 2007/07/10 - In spite of the recent security incidents and increased alert status in London during the past ten days a top London website has reported its highest week of tourist bookings ever - AllInLondon.co.uk.

Allinlondon.co.uk has seen bookings in its restaurant, hotel and theatre ticket channels rise to their highest ever levels suggesting that London visitors remain undaunted by recent terror threats. Last week company bosses saw visits in the website’s restaurant channel increase by 30% over the previous week; similarly ticket channel traffic rose by 20% and hotel bookings enjoyed an increase of more than 35% over the previous week.

Staff at the website, who live and work in London, were also able to report no significant changes in the mood of the city despite the recent attack outside Tiger Tiger bar in London’s West End; in fact conversely, the venue has risen to the top of allinlondon.co.uk’s “most popular bars” rankings. A comment on one of the website’s forums reads “Security alerts are becoming more and more commonplace and so it’s gradually becoming something that you shut out when you hear them. There’s always some kind of notice on the tube or announcement about unattended bags or the like and so it’s just becoming something that you accommodate in your life. Even when there’s an incident at a place that you know very well, such as Tiger Tiger, there isn’t as much of a mad panic from Londoners anymore, for the most part people just wonder where else they can go that night.

“It’s not that people don’t take the security alerts or incidents seriously it’s just that everyone works around them more nowadays.”

The past week has been one of the busiest weeks for events in the capital’s calendar, hosting events including: the Harry Potter Film Premiere, the Hairspray Film Premiere, the Tour de France, Wimbledon Tennis, London City Airport Open Day and Live Earth events which attracted swarms of visitors into central London, yet attendance at all of these events equaled if not surpassed projections giving further indications that London refuses to give in to the spectre of terror.

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