York and North Yorkshire’s Labour Mayor David Skaith has become the latest local politician to back the idea of a visitor ...

Scotland's councils are to decide on local tax rates over the coming weeks, with many mulling rises of up to 10%. Rates have ...

But Fiona Campbell, CEO of ASSC, warned: “As Edinburgh will be the guinea pig for this new tourist tax, it would be prudent ...

Edinburgh councillors have voted to try and claw back millions of pounds per year set to be taken by the Treasury in tax from the city’s new visitor levy.

A local mayor said the Government was open to the possibility of a tourist tax, saying engagement with the idea had been ...

This European city is introducing a new tourist tax, but will it fund much-needed infrastructure or drive visitors away? Here ...

Tim Eagle, a Scottish Conservative list MSP for the Highlands and Islands, claimed that he had been “inundated” by messages ...

Edinburgh’s complicated short-term let licensing policy has been changed in an effort to ease the accommodation crisis during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe ...

Just last week Edinburgh became the first Scottish city to introduce a tourist tax in a move designed to raise £50m annually ...

York’s booming tourist industry could be put at risk if proposals to levy charges on visitors go ahead, the boss of one of ...