The business market helps Eurostar recover from the summer period
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Eurostar, the high-speed train operator that links the UK with France and Belgium, says a resilient business market helped it to recover from a challenging summer period, where overseas leisure travellers were briefly put off from visiting London.
The number of travellers using Eurostar grew by 4.3 percent in the first nine months of 2005, to 5.63 million, compared with 5.4 million in the same period last year. Sales to the end of September grew by 10 percent to