{"id":585551,"date":"2026-05-15T13:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585551\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:53:14","slug":"fears-tourism-tax-will-price-out-firms-in-devon-and-cornwall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585551\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears tourism tax will price out firms in Devon and Cornwall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team at the St Moritz Hotel and Cowshed Spa in Trebetherick, Cornwall, also condemned the levy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hugh Ridgway, one of its founders, said: &#8220;People travel from across the world to stay, eat, and spend in Cornwall, and support thousands of local jobs and businesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yet, alongside us, every Cornish hospitality operator is now working almost to breaking point just to make budget and break even.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Margins are wafer thin, staff costs are soaring, energy remains volatile, and consumer confidence is fragile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And now Westminster thinks the answer is to tax visitors even more.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team at the St Moritz Hotel and Cowshed Spa in Trebetherick, Cornwall, also condemned the levy. Hugh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-585551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}