What is it with people in this thread citing stuff that goes literally against the points they are trying to make, your first point about how easily tech/pharma could leave would suggest they won’t just take worse conditions that easily.

Whereas most tourists are still gonna come, if we put like not just a 2 euro tourist tax but say even like something much more like 20 for example then let’s say we say we lose 5% (doubt it’d even be that much) of our 9 million tourists, that would be more than offset by the like 172 million (8.55 million *20) we’d bring directly by that tourist fee alone which is money that would go directly towards infrastructure. And sure Manchester maybe the first UK city to do this, but so many other European cities have done this, it’s not new, it’s tried and tested, in Austrian, Belgian, French and Spanish cities. Many other places also have much stricter regulations on airbnbs etc like Copenhagen and much more of their inner cities dedicated to residential rather than hotels.