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Article: Tour guides take Calton Hill parking fees row to Holyrood
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- May 17, 2005
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TOUR guides are to protest to the Scottish Parliament over a
massive increase in charges for taking visitors on to Calton Hill.
Tour operators are angry at seeing charges for parking coaches on
Calton Hill trebled this year to GBP 15.
They have branded the move by the city council "money-grabbing"
and say many guides are now shunning the beauty spot.
Now the Edinburgh office of the Scottish Tourist Guides
Association are to ask MSPs to intervene in the row in the hope they
will persuade the council to drop the charges.
Association secretary Richard Guest said tour guides were self
employed and many were simply choosing to drop Calton Hill from their
itineraries rather than pay the higher ...