www.bbc.co.uk Nearly a third of Britons have been put off visits or travel in London since the July attacks, new figures suggest.
A similar number of French adults said they had been discouraged from making trips to the capital but only a fifth of Germans said they were deterred.
The TNS survey of 3,000 people for news network CNN and Time magazine was conducted between 26 and 31 July.
Tourism chiefs said any downturn was likely to be short-lived as more recent research showed "robust attitudes".
"Whilst the tourism industry is very mindful of the effect of recent events, this research is misleading, meaningless and already out of date," said Martine Ainsworth-Wells, marketing director of Visit London.
"Our figures are showing an upward trend in business to London over the last two weeks."
TNS said its survey revealed 21% of Britons - and 33% of those living in London - had become wary of using public transport.
"People in Britain also seem to be generally supportive of the introduction of additional measures on trains and buses to make them safer, even if this meant increased journey times or increases in the price of tickets," said a spokesperson for TNS.
TNS found that 31% of those interviewed in the UK had been deterred by the 7 July and 21 July attacks, compared to 32% in France.
Overall, 40% of women said they had been discouraged, compared with 21% of men.
"The bombs in London - together with those in Madrid in 2004 - have graphically demonstrated the vulnerability of public transport networks to terrorist attacks," said TNS.
"Users of those services are realising that tighter measures need to be put in place to guard their safety in the future."
A senior Tube manager told BBC News passenger numbers had dropped by 30% at weekends and between 5% and 15% on weekdays since 7 July.
Most regular commuters were continuing to travel - but a significant number of visitors and weekend shoppers were not using the system, the figures suggested.
Colin Stanbridge, chief executive of the London Chamber of Commerce, said the TNS findings were not surprising, in the immediate aftermath of the attacks.
"I think that we are bound to see that people are going to be nervous about coming to London," he told the BBC.
"But all the experience with Madrid and even New York is that after a time people come back and say 'no no no, I need to go to this destination, I want to go to this destination', and resume their bookings." |