While the doubling of UK air passenger duty is apparently having little efffect on the travel plans of UK residents, there have been reports in the foreign press about the UK becoming a more expensive destination.  This negative publicity is hardly going to encourage visitors to the UK.

Has the British Chancellor, Gordon Brown forgotten his Newton’s Law that every action has an equal and opposite reaction? What the exchequer gains in income from the increase in APD it may lose if there is a drop in VAT revenue due to a reduction in the number of visitors to UK or the amount which they spend during their trip.