Visitors staying at hotels, inns and bed and breakfasts in Suffolk and Norfolk could soon be paying more for overnight stays. New proposals, put forward in the King's Speech last month, would see mayors given the power to apply a tourist levy to raise funds to improve holiday resorts. The tax could be a flat rate or a percentage of the nightly fees. Levies like this are already applied in many European resorts and also in Wales, Scotland, Manchester and Liverpool.