City taxes have never put me off staying somewhere, so I wouldn’t mind if we had them here. One way to bolster our income I guess.
Yes.
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Everywhere in the UK should have it – but especially London.
The question isn’t should it happen, but why hasn’t it already?
Yes, next
I am absolutely in favour on this, so long as the revenue is used in the right way. It is common in many countries, many of whom don’t even offer the benefit of free entry to venues like we have in the UK.
There was a scheme proposed in Cambridge to do this and it was rejected due to negative feedback from some corporate hotels who claimed it would reduce visits. Utter bullshit.
I went to Belgium about 3 months ago and the hotel charged me €3.50 (~£2.95) per night tourist tax.
The idea of charging tourists a small amount per night is pretty common in other countries, and the sky hasn’t fallen on their heads.
We should do this specifically for tourists from Barcelona IMO
Realistically this will just vary British visitors rather then international ones.
International visitors more likely to splurge or not be bothered about a little price on a big trip.
How ever visitors from the north who might come down for the weekend might not want an already short and expensive trip to become even more expensive.
This could bring in £1B to £2B per year
Absolutely.
Yes as long as it’s a sane amount as you pay in what feels like every other country in Europe
If it’s implemented and collected right and not abused to bolster profits.
I’d also like to know what it’s being spent on.
I’m here for it, I don’t grudge it in other cities and it seems appropriate for a city with a housing crisis
Every city and town near Euro Disney charges tourists for stay yet people still go there.
Meh, other countries do it.
Frankly, though, London is so expensive anyway that unless something radical is done about that, peeps will stop coming. I mean normal peeps. Not the oligarchs, obviously, they’re here to stay (and our insurance against nuclear bombing, thanks Kensington).
Yes
Yes
Yes, yes they should.
Maybe, and I also think non residents should also pay to visit London museums and galleries.
No brainer. Everyone else does it
1) Charge International visitors a hotel tax. They have to show ID/their passport anyway so you know theyre internationals
2) give every londoner a “london card” which gets you free entry to the museums, as now.
3) charge everyone else to go to the museums.
problem solved.
Yes.
Primarily because UK currently collects taxes from tourists in London.
London needs to start taking measures that fund itself, because the UK government will not.
Absolutely.
And how about giving the money to TfL who stopped being subsidised in 2018 and are constantly strapped for cash?
bring back VAT free shopping, add a tourist tax. that incentivises spending keeps the funding local to off set the impact of tourists.
Is there an impact/cost associated with tourism here? I get it with other cities abroad who let people view their sights and sounds for free and need to pay the upkeep for historic monuments, cleaning the beach etc. But London charges you for pretty much everything anyway. What type of things would the money be used for? I guess council workers to pick up litter and collect bins.
Of course it should happen. We have paid tourist tax in other cities and we didnt mind.
Yes, they should. While at the same time we should implement tax free tourism to the British seaside “resorts” that have fallen into dilapidation. And offer subsidized travel. While increasing tax on aviation fuel (which is currently, very bizarrely, tax free.
Lots can be done, nothing is, as always.
They exist in just about every city in every country in the developed world. Very odd that the Treasury keeps blocking them here.
There’s no reason they can’t only be levied on say three star places or above. Or set it by percentage. Various cities do it in various ways.
Massive no brainer this.
I am genuinely surprised that this hasn’t happened yet. I’d be in favour of a 1% tax on all hotels, motels, and AirBnBs in the Greater London area. We can spend the money funding more police and public amenities and everyone, not just tourists, get to benefit. Cannot see a downside to this.
Yes, why not? Only caveat to this is that the tax must be used to improve the city, help pay for infrastructure, etc. not go into another government black hole of money.
I think it’s extremely unfair to charge people who are British citizens extra to travel and stay within their own country.
My taxes already go to the entire UK so it’s pretty unfair to ask me to pay extra to visit these places I already help fund.
like are we going to start charging people more to move out of london and down south because of the inconvenience and rising house prices that are caused by this?
It’s just the reality of living in places like this, London gets plenty of positives thanks to tourism and also has to deal with the negatives, same with places on key train routes to London regarding house prices.
We pay a tax in Greece. We paid in the hotel it’s calculated per room per night. A family of 5 we had to fork out an extra £300 quid …. Such a lovely welcome.
Yes, but you won’t see it done in the UK. It’s too sensible.
Manchester and Edinburgh already do this, as do many other European cities.
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City taxes have never put me off staying somewhere, so I wouldn’t mind if we had them here. One way to bolster our income I guess.
Yes.
/thread
Everywhere in the UK should have it – but especially London.
The question isn’t should it happen, but why hasn’t it already?
Yes, next
I am absolutely in favour on this, so long as the revenue is used in the right way. It is common in many countries, many of whom don’t even offer the benefit of free entry to venues like we have in the UK.
There was a scheme proposed in Cambridge to do this and it was rejected due to negative feedback from some corporate hotels who claimed it would reduce visits. Utter bullshit.
I went to Belgium about 3 months ago and the hotel charged me €3.50 (~£2.95) per night tourist tax.
The idea of charging tourists a small amount per night is pretty common in other countries, and the sky hasn’t fallen on their heads.
We should do this specifically for tourists from Barcelona IMO
Realistically this will just vary British visitors rather then international ones.
International visitors more likely to splurge or not be bothered about a little price on a big trip.
How ever visitors from the north who might come down for the weekend might not want an already short and expensive trip to become even more expensive.
This could bring in £1B to £2B per year
Absolutely.
Yes as long as it’s a sane amount as you pay in what feels like every other country in Europe
If it’s implemented and collected right and not abused to bolster profits.
I’d also like to know what it’s being spent on.
I’m here for it, I don’t grudge it in other cities and it seems appropriate for a city with a housing crisis
Every city and town near Euro Disney charges tourists for stay yet people still go there.
Meh, other countries do it.
Frankly, though, London is so expensive anyway that unless something radical is done about that, peeps will stop coming. I mean normal peeps. Not the oligarchs, obviously, they’re here to stay (and our insurance against nuclear bombing, thanks Kensington).
Yes
Yes
Yes, yes they should.
Maybe, and I also think non residents should also pay to visit London museums and galleries.
No brainer. Everyone else does it
1) Charge International visitors a hotel tax. They have to show ID/their passport anyway so you know theyre internationals
2) give every londoner a “london card” which gets you free entry to the museums, as now.
3) charge everyone else to go to the museums.
problem solved.
Yes.
Primarily because UK currently collects taxes from tourists in London.
London needs to start taking measures that fund itself, because the UK government will not.
Absolutely.
And how about giving the money to TfL who stopped being subsidised in 2018 and are constantly strapped for cash?
bring back VAT free shopping, add a tourist tax. that incentivises spending keeps the funding local to off set the impact of tourists.
Is there an impact/cost associated with tourism here? I get it with other cities abroad who let people view their sights and sounds for free and need to pay the upkeep for historic monuments, cleaning the beach etc. But London charges you for pretty much everything anyway. What type of things would the money be used for? I guess council workers to pick up litter and collect bins.
Of course it should happen. We have paid tourist tax in other cities and we didnt mind.
Yes, they should. While at the same time we should implement tax free tourism to the British seaside “resorts” that have fallen into dilapidation. And offer subsidized travel. While increasing tax on aviation fuel (which is currently, very bizarrely, tax free.
Lots can be done, nothing is, as always.
They exist in just about every city in every country in the developed world. Very odd that the Treasury keeps blocking them here.
There’s no reason they can’t only be levied on say three star places or above. Or set it by percentage. Various cities do it in various ways.
Massive no brainer this.
I am genuinely surprised that this hasn’t happened yet. I’d be in favour of a 1% tax on all hotels, motels, and AirBnBs in the Greater London area. We can spend the money funding more police and public amenities and everyone, not just tourists, get to benefit. Cannot see a downside to this.
Yes, why not? Only caveat to this is that the tax must be used to improve the city, help pay for infrastructure, etc. not go into another government black hole of money.
I think it’s extremely unfair to charge people who are British citizens extra to travel and stay within their own country.
My taxes already go to the entire UK so it’s pretty unfair to ask me to pay extra to visit these places I already help fund.
like are we going to start charging people more to move out of london and down south because of the inconvenience and rising house prices that are caused by this?
It’s just the reality of living in places like this, London gets plenty of positives thanks to tourism and also has to deal with the negatives, same with places on key train routes to London regarding house prices.
We pay a tax in Greece. We paid in the hotel it’s calculated per room per night. A family of 5 we had to fork out an extra £300 quid …. Such a lovely welcome.
Yes, but you won’t see it done in the UK. It’s too sensible.
Manchester and Edinburgh already do this, as do many other European cities.
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