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Db's avatar

Problem is Khan is a weak and very disliked Mayor . He has no issue with putting up council tax by 9% when local authorities who provide essential services are capped at a much lower rate. We should have a tourist tax and they should pay to go into museums as we have to in all other cities around the world. But Khan cannot be trusted to use the money well and will funnel it into another vanity project .

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Alongside Rome, London already has some of the highest hotel prices among European capitals, and B&B rates are similarly high. I would not like to guess demand elasticity, which is obviously influenced by the prices of other tourist spending items like food (medium to high), clothes (low) and entertainment (high to astronomical), but there is probably not much scope for a hotel surcharge. Rome charges €4 - €10 per person per night.

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