Overall an alright article, but one bit that annoyed me was
>BBC Scotland News counted 96 key boxes of the type typically used for holiday lets on, or just off, the Royal Mile earlier this month.
Like that’s an accurate statistic for anything? Are they still operational, in disrepair, for AirBNBs specifically or what?
Gold Brothers gift shops aren’t the problem, Air B&Bs are.
Recent changes to regulations should help that.
Realistically? No probably not. However would we rather potentially see 72 empty units? Its not as if bricks and mortar retail is thriving outside of some quite narrow sectors; tourist tat being one of them.
No, it really doesn’t.
Edinburgh’s just drowning in those tacky Gold Brothers souvenir shops. The same cheap shite in every single one, blasting out music like it’s a nightclub.
It’s the same story in any city that’s ‘tourist centric’ though. I was just in Venice, for such a small city like Edi, it’s completely choked with souvenir stalls.
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How many of those 72 are owned by gold brothers?
Overall an alright article, but one bit that annoyed me was
>BBC Scotland News counted 96 key boxes of the type typically used for holiday lets on, or just off, the Royal Mile earlier this month.
Like that’s an accurate statistic for anything? Are they still operational, in disrepair, for AirBNBs specifically or what?
Gold Brothers gift shops aren’t the problem, Air B&Bs are.
Recent changes to regulations should help that.
Realistically? No probably not. However would we rather potentially see 72 empty units? Its not as if bricks and mortar retail is thriving outside of some quite narrow sectors; tourist tat being one of them.
No, it really doesn’t.
Edinburgh’s just drowning in those tacky Gold Brothers souvenir shops. The same cheap shite in every single one, blasting out music like it’s a nightclub.
It’s the same story in any city that’s ‘tourist centric’ though. I was just in Venice, for such a small city like Edi, it’s completely choked with souvenir stalls.
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