Operators have raised a petition to take the council to Court to stop the ‘extermination’ of short-term lets.
Tourism leaders in Edinburgh say they are "very encouraged" about the prospects for the city's lucrative Hogmanay celebrations as they insisted guests were not cancelling bookings over the new Covid variant.
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