'Tourist' tax to cost Britain pounds 2.5bn; HOLIDAYS: yourmoney.Byline: CLINTON Clinton. 1 Town (1990 pop. 12,767), Middlesex co., S Conn., on Long Island Sound; settled 1663, set off from Killingworth and inc. 1838. The school that later became Yale opened here in 1702. MANNING UP to 10,000 jobs are being put at risk by Britain's "tourist tax" - the boss of Ryanair Ryanair (ISEQ: RYA, LSE: RYA, NASDAQ: RYAAY) is an Irish airline headquartered in Dublin, with its biggest operational base situated in London Stansted Airport in the UK. claimed yesterday. Michael O'Leary, right, claimed Air Passenger Duty - which adds pounds 20 to the price of a return flight to Europe - could deter 10 million people from visiting the UK this year, costing the tourist industry pounds 2.5billion. Announcing that Ryanair was freezing expansion at all its nine UK bases, he urged ministers to follow the lead of Spanish Spanish, river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, issuing from Spanish Lake, S Ont., Canada, NW of Sudbury, and flowing generally S through Biskotasi and Agnew lakes to Lake Huron opposite Manitoulin island. There are several hydroelectric stations on the river. and Greek governments and scrap the tax. Ryanair expects to grow by 15% this year, carrying more than 67 million passengers. But O'Leary warned: "The Government's pounds 10 tourist tax is making the UK a non-competitive destination. They must scrap it now to prevent a further collapse of UK passengers, tourism and jobs. While the UK keeps taxing tourists Ryanair will switch its growth to other EU countries." |
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