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Article: City rings up another tourist attraction .. its charity shops
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- September 5, 2006
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IT is usually the spectacular historic buildings, stunning scenery
and buzz of the festivals that attract flocks of tourists to
Edinburgh.
But the city can now boast another, rather unexpected, tourist
attraction . . . its charity shops.
Groups of foreign visitors have started following a trail around
the city's secondhand shops using maps showing the location of 97 of
them.
Among the droves of bargain-hunters are Japanese and Chinese
tourists looking for cut-price Burberry clothes and traditional
Scottish items such as kilts. Some have even asked for organised
tours to take them around the best thrift shops.
The maps were created last year to encourage city residents to
make more use of ...