howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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And dismiss immediately hopefully.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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I can see nothing wrong with the idea as long as it is only £1, such a small amount would hardly deter any visitor. My only real doubt is how much would it cost to administer.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I don't think the admin costs would be very high we have 3 large budget hotels plus the Ramada and Dover Marina and maybe once a year total up the number of occupied beds and collect one lump sum from each. Councils all over are cash strapped and the revenue could finance public toilets, planters etc in central areas which would benefit tourists and locals alike.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Jan Higgins wrote:I can see nothing wrong with the idea as long as it is only £1, such a small amount would hardly deter any visitor.
Yes it will. Just the same as people drive mile to find a free parking space psychologically we humans will do ridiculous things to 'save a few bob' even if it costs us a small fortune to do so. The 'stickier' the transaction the less likely people are to undertake it.
It's as stupid as our (sic) Charlie's idea to charge all visitors £10 for a visa waiver to spend on the Border Force. If the Dover offer (dread word) is unable to get an extra £1 out of visitors by selling them something extra or providing a service which they want, sort out the bloody 'offer'.
e.g. The breakfast on Deal pier is now £9.50 so I spent £12 on breakfast and coffee yesterday. The place was packed to the rafters all day and so far for the first week figures have been 50% above business plan projections.
Q. SURELY it would be a good idea to charge everyone £1 to go on the pier?
A. Don't be so bloody stupid.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
bob, they must of seen you coming, brekkie at 12 quid a go, you can get two at the landmark senter for that price.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Queuing out of the door. No riff raff. Reassuringly expensive.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
howard mcsweeney1 wrote:Something for DDC to consider.
If I was looking for somewhere to stay nationally and saw 'tourist levy' I would go down the list to the next town without investigating further, the only workable way to implement it in my mind would be at a national level.
Aruba in the Caribbean has a $25 one that you have to pay on departure ( methinks they don't want people to leave)
Arte et Marte
Button
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By way of contrast, the Severn Crossing tolls have just been abolished.
(Not my real name.)
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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All I can add to my earlier comment (#3) is if I was prepared to pay, £10 for arguments sake and many places are double or more, an extra £1 would not deter me.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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With respect Jan, and perhaps you are the exception to the rule, 'people' don't work like that whatever they say.
We all tell the nice survey woman that we'd happily pay an extra 1% on income tax for whatever but in the privacy of the voter's booth we never vote for a party which admits it's going to put up tax (unless it only affects other people like bankers, footballers or the 'rich' in general).
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
I'm getting concerned I think I'm in agreement with Bob lol
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