MY perfect escape isn’t a Scottish island. It’s a warm European city. Lying on a balcony and sunning myself like a lizard while deciding between…
MY perfect escape isn’t a Scottish island. It’s a warm European city. Lying on a balcony and sunning myself like a lizard while deciding between good coffee or good wine is, frankly, heaven.
And it is free for citizens. For tourists, there is a fee, and your entry time should be booked to guarantee access. A limit on the number of visitors per hour applies. The park says that it “reinvests its income from tourism for the ongoing improvement of the park and its environs”. On April 20, what some estimate to be 50,000 people took to the streets across the Canary Islands chanting “Canarias tiene un limite” . Twenty days after starting their hunger strike, the protesters ended it, claiming politicians had shown “zero interest”. Fernando Clavijo Batlle, the president of the Canary Islands, has acknowledged the need for better regulation to ensure that tourism growth does not negatively impact local communities. How is a different story.
A tourist tax proposal is currently wending its way through the Scottish Parliament. If passed, the legislation will give local councils the ability to add a tax to overnight accommodation based on a percentage of the cost. The Government describes it as “proposing to give councils powers to introduce a visitor levy, sometimes known as a ‘tourism tax’. This will generate funds to invest in local facilities and services, helping to attract more visitors”.
Strongly opposed or not, something has to give – and accommodation must be the biggest earner from tourism by a country mile. £1.5m is the approximate amount which leaves Tiree every year – earned by those who rent out property here but live elsewhere. A tax of 2% on that might only be £30,000 but when it comes to improving facilities, protecting land and the environment and generally making life easier, it would go a long way locally. Supposing we ever saw it.
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