It’s a start, but they need to go further and heavily restrict short-term lets.
Comment section is a complete riot of Daily Heil readers.
This will change nothing. The money will be spent on some shite instead of fixing the streets or better transport.
A hard action has to be taken against all the Airbnb run as a professional scheme. I’m not talking about a grannie renting out a room during the bagpipes world championship but people buying complete apartment blocks to rent them via Airbnb.
This is the sort of delivery aye where some evidence would help but it’s absent from the article.
Do places that have tourist taxes get enough fewer tourists that the tax costs businesses as much as it raises for government? If so it’s probably bad and if not it’s probably good.
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I don’t think this is a good idea. It’s just picking on other people to pay even more tax.
No objection to this. I’m not long back from Italy and had to pay tourist tax (was about 30 euros for the week) – feels negligible in the overall cost of a holiday
Rather tax students tbh
AirBnB is a cancer which is causing people globally to revolt against tourism. It needs to be legislated for by name.
I’m overseas and we have a housing crisis. No shortage of inventory. But we have a housing crisis. Why? Investment properties from people trying to make a quid.
The gig economy only works when it’s accessible to normal people, Airbnb was fun to start with. Now any greedy bastard with equity is buying flats up to house temporary visitors, increasing homelessness across the globe.
I really can’t stress how much I hate that company.
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Fs have enough hassle getting tourists to visit Glasgow over Edinburgh
Just about every major city in Europe does this btw, it’s barely noticeable for most tourists.
How much are they paying tourists to go to Glasgow?
It’s a pretty common feature of most popular places – so seems like a good way to raise some funds to support the city.
Good to also see this being devolved to the city to decide rather than Holyrood as well.
People visit Glasgow?
I’m an American who will be visiting next week and I’m all for this. Air BnBs offer a better experience than hotels can provide and while I appreciate their affordability, I acknowledge that they are able to do that by skirting the taxes that would otherwise offset their burdens to the public.
Next week, though, we are staying with family in Bishopbriggs.
Does Glasgow have an over tourism problem to the point where this is warranted?
I can understand Edinburgh is a bit over capacity with tourists, but Glasgow isn’t exactly heaving with tourists each summer?
With two small kids an Airbnb is way more convenient than a hotel IMO. Enforce licences to cap the numbers in certain areas and make sure the company and the landlords are taxed.
Chat about Air BnB is missing the point slightly – the first time I ever paid a tourist tax was in a hotel in Copenhagen years ago.
Tourists come to the city, use public services and amenities, create a load more rubbish etc. But unlike the people who live in the city, they don’t pay council tax to help fund those services. That’s why it’s a good idea.
(A bit like all the commuters who work in the city, fill the bins with sandwich wrappers and single-use coffee cups, then piss off back to Newton Mearns or Bearsden or wherever and leave it to Glasgow council tax payers to pick up the tab.)
It’s even worse in places like the Highlands, where sometimes they’re hardly even putting money into the local economy, because they come along in their stupid motorhomes, leaving shite everywhere and ruining the roads.
Air BnB needs dealt with as well, but that’s not really the point of this.
Just visited, and I will visit again after there’s a tax. And I’ll use hotels not AirBnB. Social Hub was a bargain in Glasgow.
Should be an arrivals tax for non-UK passport holders in addition to local tourist taxes.
Absolutely the right thing to do. That could bring hundreds and hundreds of pounds to the city coffers every year.
People in my work are very upset that the cost of hotels in the city are going up for them.
I’ve never stayed in a hotel in glasgow because it’s a commute distance away from me, but I don’t feel like it matters all that much
It’s not really a “tourist” tax though. Even though im a Glasgow resident, I’d have to pay for staying over in hotels, which I often do if there’s a gig or something on.
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It’s a start, but they need to go further and heavily restrict short-term lets.
Comment section is a complete riot of Daily Heil readers.
This will change nothing. The money will be spent on some shite instead of fixing the streets or better transport.
A hard action has to be taken against all the Airbnb run as a professional scheme. I’m not talking about a grannie renting out a room during the bagpipes world championship but people buying complete apartment blocks to rent them via Airbnb.
This is the sort of delivery aye where some evidence would help but it’s absent from the article.
Do places that have tourist taxes get enough fewer tourists that the tax costs businesses as much as it raises for government? If so it’s probably bad and if not it’s probably good.
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I don’t think this is a good idea. It’s just picking on other people to pay even more tax.
No objection to this. I’m not long back from Italy and had to pay tourist tax (was about 30 euros for the week) – feels negligible in the overall cost of a holiday
Rather tax students tbh
AirBnB is a cancer which is causing people globally to revolt against tourism. It needs to be legislated for by name.
I’m overseas and we have a housing crisis. No shortage of inventory. But we have a housing crisis. Why? Investment properties from people trying to make a quid.
The gig economy only works when it’s accessible to normal people, Airbnb was fun to start with. Now any greedy bastard with equity is buying flats up to house temporary visitors, increasing homelessness across the globe.
I really can’t stress how much I hate that company.
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Fs have enough hassle getting tourists to visit Glasgow over Edinburgh
Just about every major city in Europe does this btw, it’s barely noticeable for most tourists.
How much are they paying tourists to go to Glasgow?
It’s a pretty common feature of most popular places – so seems like a good way to raise some funds to support the city.
Good to also see this being devolved to the city to decide rather than Holyrood as well.
People visit Glasgow?
I’m an American who will be visiting next week and I’m all for this. Air BnBs offer a better experience than hotels can provide and while I appreciate their affordability, I acknowledge that they are able to do that by skirting the taxes that would otherwise offset their burdens to the public.
Next week, though, we are staying with family in Bishopbriggs.
Does Glasgow have an over tourism problem to the point where this is warranted?
I can understand Edinburgh is a bit over capacity with tourists, but Glasgow isn’t exactly heaving with tourists each summer?
With two small kids an Airbnb is way more convenient than a hotel IMO. Enforce licences to cap the numbers in certain areas and make sure the company and the landlords are taxed.
Chat about Air BnB is missing the point slightly – the first time I ever paid a tourist tax was in a hotel in Copenhagen years ago.
Tourists come to the city, use public services and amenities, create a load more rubbish etc. But unlike the people who live in the city, they don’t pay council tax to help fund those services. That’s why it’s a good idea.
(A bit like all the commuters who work in the city, fill the bins with sandwich wrappers and single-use coffee cups, then piss off back to Newton Mearns or Bearsden or wherever and leave it to Glasgow council tax payers to pick up the tab.)
It’s even worse in places like the Highlands, where sometimes they’re hardly even putting money into the local economy, because they come along in their stupid motorhomes, leaving shite everywhere and ruining the roads.
Air BnB needs dealt with as well, but that’s not really the point of this.
Just visited, and I will visit again after there’s a tax. And I’ll use hotels not AirBnB. Social Hub was a bargain in Glasgow.
Should be an arrivals tax for non-UK passport holders in addition to local tourist taxes.
Absolutely the right thing to do. That could bring hundreds and hundreds of pounds to the city coffers every year.
People in my work are very upset that the cost of hotels in the city are going up for them.
I’ve never stayed in a hotel in glasgow because it’s a commute distance away from me, but I don’t feel like it matters all that much
It’s not really a “tourist” tax though. Even though im a Glasgow resident, I’d have to pay for staying over in hotels, which I often do if there’s a gig or something on.
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