{"id":58449,"date":"2019-02-12T03:01:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T00:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/novosti\/v-edinbyrge-vvedyt-tyristicheskii-nalog.html"},"modified":"2019-02-12T03:01:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T00:01:05","slug":"v-edinbyrge-vvedyt-tyristicheskii-nalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/novosti\/v-edinbyrge-vvedyt-tyristicheskii-nalog","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh to introduce tourist tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>Edinburgh authorities have decided to introduce a tourist tax: now visitors to the city will have to pay $2.50 per hotel room per night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2062fb76216b5680d7a8aa5bae11d52d.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to Sky News, this initiative was supported by 91% Edinburgh residents. Local authorities <!--more-->They expect that by collecting fees from tourists, the city&#039;s budget will be replenished by almost 19 million dollars annually.<\/p>\n<p>\nIncidentally, Edinburgh has become the first British city to require visitors to pay a tourist tax. Experts believe this could cause the Scottish capital to lose some travelers who are unwilling to spend extra money on their trips.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trn-news.ru\/news\/87151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trn-news.ru<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edinburgh authorities have decided to introduce a tourist tax: now visitors to the city will have to pay $2.50 per hotel room per night. As reported<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}