Welsh Conservatives are urging Labour ministers to drop controversial plans to introduce a tourism tax in Wales.

The Labour administration announced on 10 February that a formal consultation on proposals for a tourism tax will launch in the autumn of 2022.  The levy was proposed in the last Senedd and caused widespread concern across the tourism industry.

Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for Culture, Tourism and Sport, Tom Giffard MS, said:  “Our economy is in a very fragile state at the moment and instead of working to get it fired up again, Labour and their nationalist friends in Plaid Cymru are actively seeking to damage it.

“A tourism tax poses grave dangers for Wales. Not only would it be devastating for businesses and our economy, but it would also leave jobs hanging in the balance.”