Hospitality industry fears jobs at risk from plan to give mayors powers to impose ‘tourist tax’

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The sector is concerned by reports that there won’t be a cap on the levy that can be imposed by mayorsKemi Badenoch has said the Conservatives are opposed to giving mayors the power to impose a tourism tax.Speaking on Sky News, she said:Right now we’re not even getting the number of tourists that we used to get. They’re going to so many other places.We need to create jobs and grow our economy. Business does that. Taxing does not create jobs. It reduces them. We saw that with Rachel Reeves’ budge