The number of US travellers looking to travel the UK has dropped in the past year, according to internet travel company Cheapflights.com.
The company's rankings were based on the number of clicks that were made to search for flight deals in July 2006 and 2007 on its US site.
Although the site and London bargain deals had drawn larger traffic in the past year, the city's overall ranking had dropped.
London's drop was also indicative of the effect the weak dollar in respect to the pound was having on the decision of US tourists, the internet company argued.
The UK capital had fallen from 7th in the rankings to 15th, as more US tourists preferred to stay within borders.
But the relationship between both currencies had also had the opposite effect:
"New York is consistently the number one destination searched for on our UK site cheapflights.co.uk. With the cheap dollar, it is therefore not surprising that the dollar's weakness has caused a 38 per cent surge in traffic searching for deals to America's first city compared to July 2006 a year ago," said Francesca Ecsery, general manager for the company.
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