A new website for London shoppers from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to help visitors to the area and support its strong mix of large and small retailers and maintain vibrancy on the high street, has been launched today.
On the Map is the first online resource of its kind in London and covers some of the Capital’s most high-profile shopping destinations, including Knightsbridge, Notting Hill, the King’s Road and Portobello, providing a comprehensive list of the unique shops, boutiques, restaurants, bars, hotels, and attractions in the area.
The new initiative provides an interactive series of maps to The Royal Borough’s key shopping areas, highlighting the type of shopping experience each centre offers and linking to other useful services including individual retailers’ websites, where to eat, cultural highlights, local history, travel information and weather forecasts. The service can be accessed via smartphone, PC, handheld computer or similar.
The new maps have been created following research which showed that the number one reason for visiting the area is ‘to shop’: 13.1 million people visit the Borough each year, of which 1.7 are from overseas. £1.3bn is spent by visitors on shopping in the Borough each year.
Kensington and Chelsea has a vibrant and distinguished retail reputation as the home of destination stores such as Harrods, Harvey Nichols and Peter Jones and the birthplace of iconic design businesses such as Vivienne Westwood and Mary Quant’s first fashion houses. The borough is also home to the famous antiques, clothing and fruit and vegetable market on Portobello Road.
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