Many reliant on tourism have said now is not the time to impose such a tax in case it deters visitors.
A public consultation into whether to give councils the power to charge visitors who are staying overnight in the country was launched on Tuesday.
How much visitors could be charged has not yet been decided, but finance minister Rebecca Evans said it would be a “small contribution” that would go towards maintaining local amenities such as beaches, pavements, parks, toilets and footpaths. Chairman of North Wales Tourism Christopher Frost said: “We can appreciate the motivation for the tourism levy following the pressures over the last few years, especially to ‘honey pot’ locations.
“With the sector skills shortage, the challenges from an unregulated Airbnb market, the rise in employment costs, this is the wrong time to launch a consultation on a bed tax that will add further to the cost of doing business, will hit the confidence of an industry that has not yet overcome the challenges of the pandemic and will create further bad publicity for an industry that is already struggling.
“By asking visitors – whether they have travelled from within Wales or from further afield – to make a small contribution towards maintaining and enhancing the place they are visiting, we will encourage a more sustainable approach for tourism.”
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