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Guest house and B&B owners have called for a controversial licencing scheme for short term lets to be delayed for a year

Robin McKelvie

Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The Covid pandemic has put paid to Europe’s biggest pipe band competition – causing a multi-million pound blow to the Highland economy. The European Pipe Band Championships, part of the popular Piping Inverness event, was one of the biggest highlights of the instrument’s calendar in the Highlands, attracting 100 bands and 17,500 visitors when last held in the city in 2019. The setback has come at the same time another massive competition was called off in Lewis, an...

© PRESS AND JOURNAL Bed and breakfast operators in Fort William are among those who have criticised the new regulations. B&B owners claim plans for a new licensing scheme for short-term lets will have “serious unintended consequences” on a recovering tourism sector. The scheme, which is due to go before all MSPs for a vote, would see short-term lets subject to annual licensing and monitoring fees, guest arrival and departure curfews, occupancy limits and regular property inspections. But the Scottish Guest House and B&B Alliance (SGHBBA) is calling for a rethink of the regulations, argui...

© PRESS AND JOURNAL Sign up for our daily Politics briefing for political exclusives, analysis and debate. Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up B&B owners claim plans for a new licensing scheme for short-term lets will have “serious unintended consequences” on a recovering tourism sector. The scheme, which is due to go before all MSPs for a vote, would see short-term lets subject to annual licensing and monitoring fees, guest arrival and departure curfews, occupancy limits and regular property inspections. But ...