Die kostenlosen Museen in Großbritannien sind in Schwierigkeiten. Sollten Touristen anfangen zu zahlen?
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/uk-free-museums-tourist-tax-hotel-levy-b2933292.html
Von tylerthe-theatre
Die kostenlosen Museen in Großbritannien sind in Schwierigkeiten. Sollten Touristen anfangen zu zahlen?
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/uk-free-museums-tourist-tax-hotel-levy-b2933292.html
Von tylerthe-theatre
33 Kommentare
Everyone should pay. Them being free is only a privilege for those within walking distance.
If they’re free and struggling, that means we’re underfunding them, there’s no other reason.
But yeah, we should be making tourists pay.
No, as that quickly becomes charge everyone followed by yearly rate increases
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Tourists should be charged on a daily rate for every visit to Scotland, I know that. And people from Edinburgh going to any other part of Scotland should pay twice that too.
My only worry is that if we start charging the gov just cuts the subsidy so they’re still poor… but we are paying
Not the British Museum because a lot of the contents are from overseas. Free accessibility for all seems like a fair condition of hanging onto them.
Hagia Sofia is around £30 and still packed. make it at least £5
Can be free for kids or concessions etc.
Foreigners yes, people from other parts of the UK, no. I deeply dislike the idea of charging British people to visit state subsidised museums and other activities because they happen to not live in certain postcodes.
Museums should be free for everyone and only special exhibits should be paid.
Everywhere you go across Europe you have to pay to go in, it doesn’t deter tourists if the price is reasonable.
We could start with making the old money aristrocats that filled them with their collections pay for em.
I’m in Thailand at the moment and most of the attractions are free for Thai nationals and foreigners have to pay. Seems the fairest way to do it.
Yes. Say £10 per person would be a start. Free to UK citizens.
The question should be why shouldn’t we be charging tourists.
To be honest they’re way too busy.
Yes, if the funds are managed, and not just to pay some CEO or board
Controversial opinion but a lot of museums would be better experiences if there was even a small fee. Whenever I’ve been in the Tate modern it’s clear that it was somewhat used as dumping ground to put tourists/students who were only there because it was free. More popular than any piece of art were the stairs where people could sit down and look at their phones.
There is some psychological value in having no extra marginal cost to visiting a museum, so it would be nice if the tickets allowed re-entry within a certain time period, say for 3 months. This would naturally bias towards people who live and work near the museums.
Tourists should pay. Every other country did this. Went to Turkey (other countries do this too including the US for national parks) , and the prices set for tourists vs locals vs eye watering.
Definitely start charging tourists to see there acquisitions antiquities from there countries (finders keepers)
UK museums should be free for citizens, maybe a smaller charge for tourists.
Other countries make tourists pay and keep things cheap or free for locals.
If someone can afford the price of the trek, they can afford the price of the leisure.
How is it different than making people pay to tour Westminster Abbey or the Tower? These things cost a bomb to keep going. Tourists should absolutely pay. I’m a tourist and I just budget stuff like that into the trip.
Not sure my city has any UK free museums – would be nice to have one!
Almost every museum is chargeable that I’ve been to outside the uk. I see nothing wrong with charging tourists to help with the cost of the museums.
Many countries have musuems free or cheap for citizens/residents, paid for visitors I think that’s fair.
Free for locals, cost for internationals is the easiest solution surely?
Education and information must be free. Nobody owns knowledge.
Another Mr angry piece of garbage writing, let’s get the populous enraged it’s a wonder they never mentioned immigrants or the homeless using them.
Maybe have a weekly pass that non UK people can buy that gives access to all the ones currently free and then divide up the subsidies from the money garnered across the different museums visited as the museums will be able to monitor where the passes were used.
Maybe we could charge in some museums, but asking people to pay to see their own country’s stuff that we took (by honest means or otherwise) I think is quite something.
What if there was a higher property tax for non-domiciles
A lot of the world they have a foreigner tax on tourist activities and heritage site natives pay one price and foreigners pay double.
No, a lot of the content is from overseas so free accessibility seems a fair trade. Clearly they need more funding