Bedding down

Tourists say they would not be deterred from visiting Edinburgh if a tourist tax was introduced. A survey of visitors to the city at the height of the summer tourist season found 92 per cent would still come to the Capital if they faced a levy of £1 per room per night.

I would go as far as to say that 100 per cent of people will still continue to come.

Iain Ruickbie

We have to pay it when going abroad so why shouldn’t we charge too?

Pauline Van Hegen

I’ve stayed in many crummy cities abroad that charge a fairly hefty tourist tax. It’s right that Edinburgh should pass on some of the tourist costs to the tourists rather than the residents.

Leslie Simpson

I find it very strange that every consultation ends with people saying they would be happy to pay a new tax to their disadvantage.

Caroline Currie

It doesn’t say they would be happy to pay, it says they would not be deterred from visiting. Very different things.

Tam Carr

You pay a tourist tax when you go abroad in nearly every other country in the world and it does not deter people. If people want to go on holiday they go on holiday – it does not matter to them whether they are paying an extra tax or not.

Liz Rennie

Call a spade a spade. It’s a tax on business and it comes out of the budget tourists would have spent in the local economy. The council will just waste it and plead poverty to raise it more.

David Sandilands

The council has a problem with not coining enough in to fulfil its core roles as well as wasting money on rubbish like clean air days. This isn’t going to help.

John James