Wales ’20 km / h speed limit “process of tourists”

The 20 -km / h speed limit of Wales is to visit people the country and damage its tourism sector, and a leading Welsh businessman has warned.

Stephen Davies, the managing director of the Welsh whiskey brand Pendyn, accused the Welsh government of making the country less attractive in order to attend measures such as speed restrictions for drivers and plans for tax tourists.

He said: “The Welsh government does not do a very good job for tourism or for companies like ours.

“It cannot be said explicitly, but we have 20 miles per hour of speed limits and we have tourism taxes [coming] This applies to adults and children – I have the feeling that a large part of this news basically says we don’t want them here as a nation. “

Pendyn was founded in 2000 and was the first company that lasted in Wales in about 100 years of whiskey in Wales Destil. It not only makes whiskey, but not only operates three visitor centers in the distilleries, which welcome up to 100,000 tourists per year.

Mr. Davie’s comments follow a decision by the Welsh government to impose a flat -rate speed limit of 20 km / h in 2023 in 2023.

It turned out to be violent and led to accusations that the prevailing Welsh Labor Party waged a “war against drivers”. A petition against politics received a record number of signatures with almost half a million people.

In order to make things worse, said Davies said that the Welsh government is planning to enable the local councils to have a tourist tax of 1.30 GBP per night for every visitor in most types of accommodation and an indictment of 75 pen for hostels and campsites.

Officials said the tax, which is due to come into force in 2027, could collect £ 33 million a year in order to be invested in improving tourism again.

However, Mr. Davies argued that they would come at a time as tourists already reduce due to the high living costs.

He said: “With the number of visitors we are 20 percent to 25 percent down. I’m talking to other tourist attractions in Wales and you report something very similar.”

He argued that the indictment would have a greater impact on families and those on lower income to attend the Wales.

Mr. Davies said: “If you are a family and a week and a week and two adults and three children and you have to pay … I think the news that comes out there is that Wales is determined to drive away tourists because we will tax them.”

In the meantime, larger companies have warned that they could distract investments from Wales and England as a result of the submission.

A senior employee of a large hospitality company said: “Our customers are very sensitive.

“We already look at our capital expenditure plans and move from Wales to England. If the district councils quickly exclude a tax, we stay with Wales – we like Wales and our customers too.

“But where there is uncertainty, we will not commit millions of pounds if we have no idea whether tourists go to a different place at higher prices.”

A spokesman for the Welsh government said: “Visitor taxes are successfully used worldwide and will benefit local communities, tourists and companies in which the visitor economies continue to thrive.”