Bristolians Discuss: Tourism tax to help local areas

Today we ask locals: Would you pay a tourist tax to help local areas—and what should that money be spent on?

Transcript

00:00Would you pay a tourist tax to help local areas? What would you want that money to be

00:06spent on if you did pay it? I would be happy to pay it, to be fair. I think it's only right

00:11you're going in and using the resources, so that's not a problem. In terms of it being

00:15spent on, just whatever, you know, that local area needs. Would you pay a tourist tax to

00:21help your local area? It depends how much it is. Like, maybe if I have enough money I'm

00:30happy to help and give back, but you know. Yeah, yeah definitely. I'm off to Marseille

00:35tomorrow on holiday and I know at Barcelona I have, yeah, Barcelona have a lot of things

00:39with like anti-tourist stuff, Venice at the minute are very, you know, and I think because

00:44of, you know, Airbnbs being so popular and you do get gentrification and pricing out

00:52local people, I think if you're willing, if you've got the money to go on holiday there,

00:56paying a tourist tax is not, if that pleases the locals and helps them out, I think it's

00:59a good idea.