from the council ….
At a time when funding for public services is shrinking, a visitor levy is an option for raising investment to sustain local services used by visitors, as well as residents, and to keep the area as a top visitor attraction.
Support for individual tourism businesses, or for extending the tourism season are examples of how levy income could be used. Services used by the visitor economy, and so could benefit from levy funding, include for example, waste, roads, transport and leisure services.
We are running a 12-week consultation and invite you to take the time to find out more about what a levy could mean for Argyll and Bute, and then give your view.
What services would people want income from a levy to be spent on, if one was introduced? What support would tourism businesses like with managing a levy? For anyone against a visitor levy, how else would they see the visitor economy being funded in future?
These are some of the questions we are inviting views on.
You can find more information on our website, and over the next 12 weeks we will be providing updates:
- Weekly through our news round up email subscription, which is a briefing on general council and other news
- Our new Visitor Levy email update service
- Regularly as required on our website and social media channels
We are also organising a series of information events over the next 12 weeks. We will announce further information about these soon.
Please do take time over the next 12 weeks to find out more and get involved with assessing a visitor levy for Argyll and Bute.