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Britain\u2019s \u201cexorbitant\u201d Air Passenger Duty is damaging London\u2019s tourism industry and putting people off booking trips to the capital for this summer\u2019s Games, leading industry representatives have warned Olympics Secretary Jeremy Hunt.<\/p>\n
With 100 days to go before London 2012 begins, executives including Colin Stanbridge, chief executive of the London Chamber of Commerce; Anne Godfrey, chief executive of the Guild of Travel Management Companies; and Simon Buck, boss of the British Air Transport Association, wrote in a letter to Hunt: \u201cIt is contradictory in the extreme to launch an advertising campaign to encourage inbound tourism ahead of the Olympics just weeks before introducing a double-inflation rise in APD, levied on the very same people we\u2019re trying to attract.\u201d<\/p>\n
They said a family of four travelling from Australia or New Zealand would now pay up to \u00a3736 in APD to visit the UK.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is inconceivable that such a high tax burden won\u2019t impact demand for holidays to the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s \u201cexorbitant\u201d Air Passenger Duty is damaging London\u2019s tourism industry and putting people off booking trips to the capital for this summer\u2019s Games, leading industry representatives have warned Olympics Secretary Jeremy Hunt. With 100 days to go before London 2012…","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism-publicity"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n