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The dividing line between tourism related services and most other governmental expenditure is very hard to find.

York won’t be imposing a tax on tourists after council chiefs confirmed they do not have the powers to introduce it.

UPDATE: 17/12/2011. Scottish Tourism Minister Fergus Ewing has announced that there will be no accommodation tax in Edinburgh.Without the transfer of powers from the government to loacl authorites, any such introduction would be illegal.

Oxford and Cambridge are renowned as two of the world’s most famous university towns and consequently crowded with tourists at any time of year. But perhaps – in the case of Cambridge – not for much longer.