{"id":83691,"date":"2026-01-18T15:20:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83691"},"modified":"2026-01-18T15:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:20:59","slug":"will-london-introduce-a-tourist-tax-the-benefit-could-be-350m-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/18\/will-london-introduce-a-tourist-tax-the-benefit-could-be-350m-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Will London introduce a tourist tax? The benefit could be \u00a3350m a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1E0kM7.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Tourists and visitors to London have their photo taken beside a red phone box at Parliament Square (PA) - PA Archive\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Going to a gig? You\u2019d expect to pay. Going to a club? Tickets on entry. Paying to enter your dream travel destination? Preposterous.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/travel\/news\/will-london-introduce-a-tourist-tax-the-benefit-could-be-350m-a-year\/ar-AA1G0CEn?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=696c967c3a4c4de194a2f34fa1d003d8&amp;ei=74\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Going to a gig? You\u2019d expect to pay. Going to a club? Tickets on entry. Paying to enter your dream travel destination?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/London-bus.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83692,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83691\/revisions\/83692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}