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Is England right to introduce a tourism tax?

By Linda Osti, Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management, Bangor University

Supporters tend to call it a “visitor levy”. Detractors prefer to call it a “tourist tax”.

Whether you agree with it or not, an extra charge for overnight stays has become a common feature of modern travel. Recent visitors to New York, Prague, Milan and Edinburgh will have already paid it. And now mayors in England will have the chance to impose it.

Some think these fees will cause…

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