Around 90 percent of people coming for the games were expected to visit the West End. Experian Footf

A composite image of the unusually quiet streets of the West End, London and the busy shopping centre of Westfield next to the Olympic Park. (Top Image) (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Shoppers peruse the outlets in the giant Westfield Stratford shopping mall adjacent to the Olympic Park on July 31, 2012 in London, England. (Bottom Image) (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
Around 90 percent of people coming for the games were expected to visit the West End. Experian Footfall, a company that sells systems that measure pedestrian traffic in U.K. shopping centers, said around 10 percent fewer people visited the district, and 7 percent fewer visited the East End last Friday and Saturday than last year, The Independent reported.
"The numbers are currently dramatically down on last year," Tom Jenkins, CEO of the European Tour Operators Association told the newspaper. "How far down will be determined by how long Transport for London maintains the 'Don't come into London' campaign."
Some of the visitors to the city, he said, "are not necessarily interested in London as a tourist destination. They are not here to shop, sightsee, or dine out." He added, This has occurred in every other Olympics games."
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