But a more telling figure might be that overall visitor numbers to Britain reached their highest ever level in the first half of 2014, continuing a trend that saw record overseas visitor numbers and record tourism spending in 2013.
The big thing, as Gideon Haigh says in his piece, is that their record overseas is magnificent – especially because this is an era in which everyone else is pretty dependent on home advantage.
The Germans could not quite get involved with their first Derby runner last week, but their overall record overseas in recent years commands respect for Nymphea (2.40).
Cruz sought to tie Obama's record overseas to the likely Democratic nominee, who was seldom mentioned in the day's speeches.
United earned £60.4m as the new record overseas TV deals saw top-flight clubs bring in up to £7m more than last season.
Its challenge to Carmichael, which will be heard in Sydney in August, also argues that Hunt did not properly consider the climate change impacts of burning coal from Carmichael, and Adani's "poor" environmental record overseas.
The court did not rule on the conservation group's separate argument that Hunt failed to consider the impact of carbon emissions from burning of thermal coal from the Carmichael mine – which would exceed Australia's annual emissions – or Adani's "poor" environmental track record overseas.
"It's an organization that has done extremely well by focusing on the requirements of its market," said Cutler, who points out Tesco's solid track record overseas, with 2,700 stores in 13 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia.
It went from playing parties downtown to somebody telling you: 'Yo, they're playing your record overseas.' How was that possible?" The answer to that, sadly, was the same as it had been for jazz, for rock'n'roll, the same as it had been throughout the history of popular American music: it was appropriated and resold to white, suburban audiences.
A record 32 million overseas visitors came to the UK that year, spending £21bn.
