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Ryanair welcomes Dutch Government's decision to scrap tourist tax, urges UK Ireland and UK to follow

26-Mar-2009
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Ryanair welcomes Dutch Government's decision to scrap tourist tax, urges UK Ireland and UK to follow

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Ryanair welcomed (25-Mar-09) the Dutch Government’s decision to scrap the tourist tax introduced in 2008. Ryanair called again on the Irish and UK Governments to follow this example and scrap the Irish tourist tax and Gordon Brown’s GBP10 airport tax which has caused traffic to collapse at most UK airports during the past year.

 

Ryanair repeated its call that European Governments cannot stimulate tourism by taxing visitors, instead they should welcome tourists by lowering Europe’s airport and ATC taxes.
 
Ryanair’s Daniel de Carvalho said:
 
“Ryanair has campaigned against high airport tax and so called “eco”tax which deter visitors and has cost the Dutch tourism industry millions in lost revenue. Tourists have voted with their feet and turn their back on the Netherlands as a tourist destination. Today’s decision to abolish this tax is a sensitive step to reverse the steep decline in traffic that the Netherlands has suffered.
 
We now call on the UK and Irish Governments to follow this sensible Dutch Government lead and scrap the damaging and unfair EUR10/GBP10 tourist taxes imposed to visitors.
 
Ryanair will now restart talks with a number of Dutch airports about new routes and traffic growth in Holland. To celebrate the end of this unfair tourist tax and to boost the Dutch tourism, Ryanair today launched a EUR10 seat sale  to/from our Dutch destinations for booking until Thursday midnight.

 

(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 26-Mar-09



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