Leeds reflects on tourism tax

Would you pay a tourism tax to help the local areas you visit and, if so, what should that money be spent on?

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00:00I don't think so we should taxing the tourists as well the tourists just think they enjoy

00:05their stuff just came look around enjoy the view why we're taxing everything why we don't tax the

00:10air then or tax anything you know what I mean no just leave them away like I don't know how

00:17many tourists are in Leeds but in places like especially where it's very um kind of heavily

00:24affected by tourists I think there's been a lot of protests and stuff especially in places like

00:28Barcelona and things where there's a lot of tourists and I guess I mean I'm not used to it

00:33but it must kind of a lot of people talk about how it's like their main source of money or making

00:37source of income but also you have to think how disruptive it is kind of the normal culture of

00:42your life there tourism tax is good for a country but for like tourists it is a really annoying so

00:49I probably would be for a tourist tax so long as it was about creating amenities for um people who

00:56who lived in those places all that all of the around