Argyll and Bute Council.
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Argyll and Bute Visitor Levy consultation survey

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Type

Consultation

Deadline Date

10/04/2025

Website

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People in council areas across Scotland are considering a visitor levy for their area and we would like you to have the same chance to consider one for Argyll and Bute.

Why? Because at a time when funding for public services is shrinking, a visitor levy is an option for raising investment to support a sustainable future for the local visitor economy. Income raised through a levy would be dedicated to services and initiatives related to the visitor economy. As visitors share many services with residents, this could benefit both visitors and local communities, and overall, help to keep the area as a top visitor attraction.

Support for individual tourism businesses, or for extending the tourism season are examples of how visitor levy income could be used.

Examples of services used by visitors include roads and waste services, car parks, electric vehicle charge points, harbours, piers, public toilets, walking paths, motorhomes waste disposal points and recycling centres.

Other examples of how visitor levy income could be used include support for individual tourism businesses to develop their services, extending the visitor season, support for culture and heritage opportunities, including events, and developing connectivity to make it easier to travel between islands and destinations.

Argyll and Bute Council 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 give your view.

Argyll and Bute Council have listened to concerns raised by some businesses and through the consultation will welcome feedback on what support tourism businesses would like, if a visitor levy was introduced. 

Questions also include asking for views on what services people would want income from a levy to be spent on and for anyone against a visitor levy, how else would they see the visitor economy being funded in future?

 

Take part 

You can find more information on the councils website along with 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 

The council are organising a series of information events over the next 12 weeks. Further information will be available soon. 

Please take time over the next 12 weeks to learn more and get involved with assessing a visitor levy for Argyll and Bute.

Deadline 10 April.