As of this week, anyone booking a holiday to Edinburgh may notice that prices are slightly more expensive than expected.

Speaking at the seventh annual Edinburgh Tourism Action Group (ETAG) conference, the Scottish minister for enterprise, energy and tourism, Fergus Ewing, has announced details of the Edinburgh 2020 ...

Edinburgh's Royal Mile has scores of gift shops selling Scotland-themed souvenirs to a growing number of visitors [BBC] The Royal Mile is the ancient spine of Edinburgh, visited by five million ...

Edinburgh is set to become the first city in Scotland to introduce a tourist tax after the Scottish government granted powers to local authorities to introduce visitor charges. Edinburgh’s city ...

Visitors to Edinburgh who book stays from next summer onwards are now charged a 5 per cent tax on their hotel bill. The city ...

Nicola Sturgeon announced on Tuesday that the Scottish Government will introduce a Bill that would give councils the power to enact tourist tax schemes. According to the City of Edinburgh Council, it ...

Two accommodation booking sites are not fully set up to implement Edinburgh’s new ‘tourist tax’ despite charges taking effect this month.

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It was, by any measure, a remarkable coup – a politician pulling off the seemingly impossible by announcing a new tax which the public actually supported. Jane Meagher, leader of Labour-run City of ...

Thanks to powers granted by the Scottish parliament, Edinburgh is leading the way on charging its visitors taxes on their hotel stays. We could see more tourist taxes pop up in Scotland, making the ...

Edinburgh is set to become the first city in the UK to impose a tourist tax. These taxes, which attempt to charge visitors to popular destinations additional fees, are an attempt to cover the damage ...

As of this week, anyone booking a holiday to Edinburgh may notice that prices are slightly more expensive than expected. On October 1, Edinburgh became the first Scottish local council to impose a ...