[Olog-hai]

Great way to turn a boom into a bust.

[sheana]

Damn. I’m headed to Edinburgh in September.

[RitchieAprile]

room tax is pretty common here in US. particularly in big city commercial class hotels.

[stylin19a]

Hello, McFly...They’re scots...they can’t help themselves.

[moovova]

Killing the Golden Goose.

[rktman]

Sudden downturn in tourism? Probably not. Hasn’t seemed to hurt Vegas or Disney areas.

[VanDeKoik]

They could just BUILD MORE HOTELS?

[CaptainPhilFan]

It’s Diana Gabaldon’s fault.

;)

[Red Badger]

Boom over.

Bye......................

[treetopsandroofs]

Will “refugees” become “tourists”?

[a fool in paradise]

And what if you are illegally in the country? Can you be taxed for that?

[Grampa Dave]

America has been doing that since the first room tax was charged for B&B’s, centuries ago.

[Michael.SF.]

I'm OK with a modest tax on hotel rooms.

What I am not OK with is what they did here in AZ:

They added a tax to car rentals (I think it was 5%) to pay for the construction of a new stadium. Thus people who were not going to use the stadium were paying for it so Arizonans would not have to.

[Sam Gamgee]

Yes, while tourism is small part of the GDP in the USA, for England, it is massive. They shouldn’t do anything to make them less attractive.

FWIW, I love Scotland and hate London more each time I visit. The Scottish are friendly and have great food. London is very unfriendly.

[dfwgator]

As Yogi said, “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.”

[Huskrrrr]

Probably better than San Francisco. Without the poop.

[bgill]

I’ll stay home.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Home of that hero to all conservatives the “Father of Economics” Adam Smith.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Monty Python once posited “Let’s tax all foreigners living abroad”.

I guess THIS is one way to do that.