Perth and Kinross Councillors will next week (Wednesday 17 June 2026) be asked to consider plans to carry out a formal public consultation on a draft visitor levy scheme for the area.
Resident and business feedback from the early engagement last year has been used to develop a draft scheme. The question before Council next week is whether that draft scheme should now go out to formal public consultation.
If Councillors agree, views of residents and businesses will be sought on the draft scheme. The results will be brought back to Council for a decision on whether or not a visitor levy should be introduced in Perth and Kinross.
Council Leader, Councillor Eric Drysdale, said: "Since the early engagement activity there have been changes to the national legislation on the visitor levy. This gives us new options, such as a fixed-rate approach, which many of the businesses who shared their views in that first stage told us would be simpler and more transparent.
"The draft scheme we are now bringing forward reflects that feedback, setting out a fixed-rate levy from which Perth and Kinross Council residents staying in the area would be exempt.
"It is important that people now have the opportunity to consider the details of the draft scheme and tell us what they think. It's only by listening to that feedback that we can make a fully informed decision which recognises both the impact of introducing a visitor levy and the opportunities that the income a levy would generate to invest in improving the visitor experience and reducing the effect visitors have on local services."
If Councillors agree to proceed, consultation is expected to take place over the summer, with a further report brought back to Council before any decision is made on whether to introduce a visitor levy scheme.
Read the full report and agenda for next week's Council meeting on the committee page of our website.
