Tourist tax set to rake in £20m over five years
Manchester Evening News|December 09, 2022
TOURISTS to Manchester city centre will have to pay a new 'tax' from April next year to fund a business improvement district group.
ETHAN DAVIES
Tourist tax set to rake in £20m over five years

The new Manchester Accommodation Business Improvement District (ABID) will 'improve the visitor experience' to the city centre and 'support the growth of the visitor economy for the next five years.

The new charge will cost guests only £1 per night.

Some 74 hotels and short-stay serviced apartments will be charging the fee, which the M.E.N. understands will raise around £4 million in total annually.

Unlike most BIDS, the ABID only has a rough geographical footprint - the city's inner ring road - so new hotels in the zone Manchester and Salford will also charge the sum.

This story is from the December 09, 2022 edition of Manchester Evening News.

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