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West Dunbartonshire Visitor Levy

 

  1. About the West Dunbartonshire Visitor Levy
  2. Why we're introducing a visitor levy
  3. Information for businesses
  4. Information for visitors and exemptions
  5. How we’ll invest the West Dunbartonshire Visitor Levy
  6. How we developed the West Dunbartonshire Visitor Levy
  7. West Dunbartonshire Visitor Levy Scheme
  8. Timeline for implementing the levy

6. How we developed the West Dunbartonshire Visitor Levy

A West Dunbartonshire visitor levy was discussed at the Infrastructure, Regeneration and Economic Development Committee in November 2024, approval was provided at that committee to commence consultation to investigate the potential of implementing a visitor levy in West Dunbartonshire. 

A survey was created as part of the stage 1 (informal) consultation process to raise local awareness and invite initial feedback and comment from stakeholders, visitors, organisations and members of the public. The consultation was promoted through a press release, Council’s social media channels and was made available publicly on the Council’s website. 

The stage 1 consultation survey ran for a 6-week period, from 20 January to 28 February 2025. To raise awareness, an e-mail providing further details and a link to the on-line survey was sent out directly to all short term let licence holders and a press release was also published by the Council’s Corporate Communications team. The survey was also shared with tourism organisations such as Visit Scotland, Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park and Love Loch Lomond. There were 563 responses to this survey.

Following the stage 1 survey, a draft visitor levy scheme was developed and feedback on the draft scheme was sought through stage 2 of the consultation. The draft scheme proposals have been available through the Council website and were shared with relevant stakeholders. A copy of the Findings Report which provides results of the stage 1 (informal) and stage 2 (formal) consultations is available at the link below:

Link to Consultation Findings Report

The stage 2 (formal) consultation to consult on West Dunbartonshire’s draft visitor levy proposals ran from 28 July 2025 – 21 October 2025 and consisted of a press release, social media posts, an on-line survey, tourism stakeholder meetings, National Park engagement session, local hotels engagement session, industry focus group and evening drop-in sessions.

The Council formally announced its intention to proceed with a Visitor Levy for West Dunbartonshire on 12 November 2025.

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