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Beauly lodge park wins top tourism award

Posted on by Ali Campbell

Beauly lodge park, Kiltarlity Lodges, has been presented with a top national tourism award by domestic holiday giant Hoseasons.

The park was crowned Best Large Lodge Escape destination in Scotland at Hoseasons’ 11th annual Gala Awards evening – an event showcasing the very best of the self-catering specialist’s lodge and holiday parks across the UK.

Commenting after the award was presented at the Hilton Metropole Hotel, in Birmingham, Nick Morgan, Managing Director at Kiltarlity Lodges, said: “It’s always nice to win an industry award, especially when we work so hard to make sure our customers have a great holiday experience.”

The Hoseasons Diamond Awards are broken down into eight UK regions and presented to Hoseasons locations that have achieved the highest scores in independent customer satisfaction surveys.

“The fact that Kiltarlity Lodges has won this award demonstrates that they really have gone above and beyond when it comes to looking after their customers.” said Simon Altham, managing director of Hoseasons, who presented the award.

“As one of Britain’s most popular holiday locations, the standards set by this park are exactly what we have in mind when we talk about offering our customers a better place to stay, and we wish them all the best for another successful year in 2017.”

Hoseasons recently announced it had enjoyed its sixth record summer in a row with bookings up 14% across its entire UK portfolio.

For more information on Kiltarlity Lodges, or any other Hoseasons holiday, visit www.hoseasons.co.uk or call 0345 498 6130.

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Mark Warnes, Property & Portfolio Director, Hoseasons with Heather and Nick Morgan from Kiltarlity Lodges.


Notes to Editors

Hoseasons by Wyndham Vacation Rentals

Hoseasons by Wyndham Vacation Rentals is one of the UK’s leading self-catering accommodation specialists, with over 23,000 places to stay in coastal and countryside settings throughout Britain and Europe.  From lodges and parks, to boats, cottages and apartments, the brand offers the widest available range of self-catering holidays in the UK. Hoseasons accommodates over 1.1 million holidaymakers and more than 53,000 pets every year.

Hoseasons is  part of Wyndham Vacation Rentals, the world’s largest professional manager of vacation rentals business providing access to more than 105,000 vacation rental properties in approximately 550 unique destinations worldwide (NYSE:WYN). For additional information visit www.hoseasons.co.uk.

For further media information please contact Sophie Polak at the Hoseasons Press Office on 01603 706554, or at sophiep@shorthose-russell.co.uk

Tourist Tax, Visitor Levy or Bed Tax

Posted on by Ali Campbell

Like most tourism businesses in Scotland the Association of Scotland’s Self- Caterers does not support a tourist tax, visitor levy or bed tax.

  • Scotland is already expensive to visit. The World Economic Forum ranks the UK 140th out of 141 counties in terms of tourism price-competitiveness.
  • Given that a tourist tax would make Scotland less competitive, it would be contrary to the National Tourism Strategy, working against efforts to increase visitor numbers and revenues. It would jeopardise the significant contribution that tourism makes to the Scottish economy through tourism-related employment and visitor spend.
  • A bed tax would penalise accommodation providers in a sector which benefits many other businesses, attractions, restaurants, pubs along with the cultural and events sector.
  • Recent analysis by the BHA shows that, of fourteen European countries, which apply some form of tourist tax, all but one levy reduced rates of VAT on hotel services. In fact, the UK is one of only three EU countries that do not have a reduced rate of VAT for tourism services.
  • The new Scottish Government has declared that there are no plans to implement any new taxes on the tourism sector, which it says is currently subject to the second highest VAT rates in Europe. It believes there are no existing legal powers for local authorities to levy a local bed tax or tourism tax.
  • The Scottish Tourism Alliance, British Hospitality Association and tourism members of the Federation of Small Businesses have also expressed their strong opposition to calls for tourist taxes.

The ASSC believes that this should be monitored closely.

  • There have been several calls to investigate the possible introduction of a tourist tax from politicians in the previous parliament, and certainly Councils, notably Edinburgh, have been looking at this as an option.
  • We believe that the 2017 budget will be an enormous challenge, particularly for Councils, increasing the pressure to raise income. There are Council elections in May 2017.
  • It may be possible for Councils to agree a legal mechanism in City Deal negotiations being agreed at Westminster and Holyrood.
  • The general public seem to understand and may well support a tourist tax. Many may have paid a small amount when on their own holidays to other destinations.
    The Government is coming under pressure to review local taxation as well as business rates, so we consider the position to be more fluid and in the balance than might appear.

Rural self-catering in England contributes £3.04billion per year to the economy

Posted on by Ali Campbell

A recent English Association of Self Catering Operators (EASCO) report shows that rural self-catering in England adds £3.04billion to the economy each year from accommodation spend alone.  The report was compiled at the University of Greenwich using SuperControl data and underlines the importance of the holiday rental sector to the English and wider UK economies.

http://www.supercontrol.co.uk/resources/rural-self-catering-in-england-contributes-more-than-3bn-pa-to-the-economy

If you run self-catering in Scotland we’d love you to help us with our own economic impact study by taking this owner survey and sharing the visitor survey with your guests.  (One participant from each survey will win a £200 John Lewis voucher!).