Edinburgh is magical. But a tourist tax could break its spell | Aimee Stanton

I love my city, but I’ve seen how prices go through the roof during the festivals, and this new levy goes too far. We’ve got to stop fleecing our visitorsLast August, at a pop-up bar in a crumbling Edinburgh church-turned-venue, I paid just shy of £30 for two gin and tonics. There was no ice. No lime. And the tonic was your basic plastic litre bottle variety. I’m still upset about it.Inflated prices during August in Edinburgh are nothing new, but over the years I’ve