If anyone is thinking of traveling a bit more and would like to supplement their trip by picking up a few family heirlooms from various ailing maiden aunts of mine, please drop me a private message.
I'm particularly interested in anyone who is considering Colombia & Bolivia, The Golden Triangle region of South East Asia, Andalusia & North Africa or Rotterdam.
And Liverpool.
Do none of you go abroad. Tourist taxes are really common in continental Europe and do vary a lot city by city.
They are collected by the hotels/rental apartments.
They are usually a tiny part of your holiday costs. In Narbonne recently we paid €1.30 per person per night. The next town we went to charge 80 cents per person per night.
By comparison Cologne is 5% of your accomodation.
Hey Sue, I was wrong - I don't think it would just be for foreign tourists.
So yeah I assume that, if someone lives in Lewisham and wants to say the night in southwark, they'd pay a levy.
The hotels wouldn't need to vet anyone's address or passports - the levy is automatically added on top of the bill by every hotel / BnB / hostel and passed on to Southwark. So basically, you're paying an extra two quid a night, or whatever, to stay in this borough.
It's a great way to drive footfall... to the other London boroughs.
https://www.ukpropertyaccountants.co.uk/uk-tourist-tax-exploring-the-rise-of-visitor-levies-and-foreign-property-charges/
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