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it would lead to the proliferation of holiday homes and Airbnbs. It would lead to litter pollution and parking problems
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/10/new-national-park-wales-local-opposition
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"Holiday Flats Edinburgh's Ruin"
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Posted 4 months ago #
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The council’s proposal is to charge the tax at 5%, cap it at five nights of overnight accommodation in The City of Edinburgh Council area, and to spend the tax in a variety of ways, including a new participatory budgeting scheme to allocate spending of £100,000 in each and every council ward each year
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https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2025/01/visitor-levy-under-the-spotlight
Posted 2 months ago # -
I wonder why they have gone for a percentage? (And of what? Just the room rate, or would it be applied to meals, spa sessions and the like taken in the hotel as well?)
As far as I remember all the "tourist taxes" I've paid in other countries have been a fixed amount per night, which I would imagine to be much simpler for the hoteliers etc to administer.
Posted 2 months ago # -
@ejstubbs - its 5% of the pre-VAT accommodation charge. Food, drink, and entertainment charges are exempted. If operators can charge "dynamic prices", I see no reason why the Council cannot also collect dynamic taxes.
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‘I have no neighbours’: overtourism pushes residents in Spain and Portugal to the limit
As visitor numbers hit record levels in southern Europe, some residents are surrounded entirely by tourist flats
When her husband, who had cancer at the time, took a tumble in the couple’s sixth-floor flat last year, Maria frantically wondered who she could call for help to lift him.
In another building, another era, she might have dashed next door to ask a neighbour. But it wasn’t an option in her 11-unit building in central Lisbon, where tourist flats had proliferated and turned long-term residents into a rarity.
She resorted to calling the fire service. But the moment stuck with her, hinting at the community she had lost as a ceaseless rotation of tourists moved in and out of all but three of the building’s units.
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