Cambridge BID is considering its options after hoteliers voted down its bold plans for a visitor levy, which could have raised an estimated £9million over five years to invest in the city. The £2 per room per night charge would have funded a raft of measures to support the visitor economy and encourage longer stays throughout Greater Cambridge. A number of these changes would have benefitted residents too. To introduce the levy, Cambridge BID (Business Improvement District) needed majority support in a ballot of 23 hotels in Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire. But only six voted in favour, wit…
