No but the chinese are the top spending country claiming tax back off shopping at about £600+ per head in Manchester and the awash bit is from the a few visits recently and a very high number of chinese around and about
I agree about Americans as you see very few up here as they do London, Paris, Rome etc with about 2 days at each. I was having a chat with some at CDG last year waiting for our flight back to Manchester (they were going to London) and their flight was delayed about 6hrs so had totally screwed the visit to London as they were doing the many of the art galleries in 2 days
Ian