Aberdeen approves most expensive tourist tax in UK
It’s about to get a little more expensive to stay in Aberdine and that’s because the city council has just agreed to implement a visitor levy, otherwise known as a tourist tax. Visitors when they stay the night in a hotel or a B&B, for example, will be asked to pay an additional 7% of their room costs. The council will then use that money, they say, at the majority for the city’s economic growth. Now that 7% levy is the highest tax of anywhere in Scotland. In Edinburgh and Glasgow, for example, it’s only 5%. Now the council say on average visitors will pay around £4.90 per night. For context, that’s more than in some of Europe’s favorite tourism hotspots. So that’s more than Lisbon, the Algarve, and even Lake Ko.