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However, when I was the chief executive of North Ayrshire Council, hotels in Arran were already regularly adding an extra £1 to their prices to allow them to invest in local tourism on the island.
As Ms Adamson rightly says, there are a number of factors to take into account, not least the restarting of universities and the significant extra number of people who will be in the city from many different parts of the United Kingdom.
As at last September, councils had recruited approximately half the extra staff that they estimated that they needed, which is slightly below where they expected to be at that point.
As we move out of the current situation, we need to consider what that will mean for consumers who are looking for event tickets—the extra protections that they will have and whether that will all inevitably come at a higher price.
Your planning might not have got this far, but it has been suggested that an extra cost for people—a charge for overstaying—could be a way of managing demand.
Marie Curie has ambition and commitment to the individual, which is very important, as is the daffodil pin, which unites millions of people who believe in those ideals and who do that extra bit of campaigning every March.
That is a long time for someone not to have any disposable income, with no option to take their family on holiday or to buy the kids some extra wee bits as people want to do. I see the mental health impact of that situation daily.
We have moved on from that. It is almost like an extra layer of old-fashionedness that does not add any value and even distracts from the key thing, which is the importance of pushing out information.
I understand that that is often because of a lack of resources and because we cannot afford to employ managers or to pay for the extra commissions or research that might be required.