The UK’s museums desperately need a tourism tax
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Asking visitors to the UK to pay more will turbocharge our ailing cultural institutions – which is why the money must be kept from being frittered on pot holes and council pension pots, says V&A director Tristram Hunt F rom Toronto to Kyoto, from Barcelona to New York City, overnight hotel levies are now the norm for visiting tourists . As the competition for inbound travellers becomes ever more demanding and the impact of mass tourism ever more punishing, funds from a “tourism tax” to support
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