29/09/2026
IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE FORCED TO PAY MORE FOR YOUR HOLIDAY IN ARGYLL - PLEASE ACT NOW
20% of your bill when you stay at the hotel is tax. If you think this is enough tax to pay, then help us object to an additional proposed tax of a further £5 per night on your bill (£6 when VAT is added). This is what Argyll & Bute Council is proposing.
Pleas complete the Argyll & Bute Council’s Visitor Levy consultation.
The council wants to introduce this new charge for all visitors to Argyll (including Argyll residents staying away from home, elsewhere in Argyll).
There is no clear justification for this extra tax and the council has no clear plans on how it would spend the income from it. Some sceptics may believe that it will just disappear into helping to pay for current council services.
The council suggests in the Full Council Committee papers that some businesses may close as a result of the additional tax. Despite this it appears to be still keen to pursue it - regardless of the potential for economic decline, job losses and ultimately decline in Kintyre and surrounding areas.
Please follow the link below and make your voice heard. The consultation questions are very skewed in favour of the tax (not best practice in survey question design!). So if you do not support the new tax then you may have to leave most of your views in the comments sections of the form.
www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/visitor-levy/why-and-how-get-involved-visitor-levy-consultation
The consultation closes on Monday 05 October.
A visitor levy could raise millions of pounds for investment in the local visitor economy, to benefit residents, visitors and businesses, by helping to sustain Argyll and Bute as a choice destination while addressing the pressures tourism can put on infrastructure and services.
