Most travellers are put off visiting a city that has few standout sites, limited budget accommodation and a daunting reputation.
According to the Brooks Advisory Service, 25percentnt of under-16s put off visiting a sexual health service because of worries about confidentiality, compared with 12percentnt of over-16s.
I hope Oldfield won't entirely be put off visiting his home-country, which might just need his inventiveness to overturn some its own inequities.
The political unrest that swept across the Middle East and North Africa earlier this year has hurt the whole travel industry, as many holidaymakers have been put off visiting the region.
So we have to assume that tourists are indeed coming, and that for every person who has been put off visiting London by the games, more than one has decided that the Olympics make a good time to come.
I put off visiting and telling him, and put it off and put it off, until the day before my flight, when we sat at his dining room table and I said, "This isn't a message".
It's ironic that people should be put off visiting at a time when RoH is particularly keen on getting daytime visitors to its beautiful, under-seen and free floral hall, with its reasonably priced cafe.
Egypt's tourism industry is battling to recover from what the tourism minister has described as its "worst year in modern history", after millions of tourists were put off visiting Egyptian resorts and heritage sites in 2013 by reports of civil unrest.
"We are urging women of any age to get to know their body by looking at and feeling their breasts regularly, there's no right or wrong way, and if they find any unusual changes for them to not put off visiting their GP".
So I continued to put off visiting.
