British tourists on holiday in Cornwall and Wales have warned of a “very tough” crackdown.

A holiday warning in Cornwall and Wales has been issued for holidaymakers staying in the UK amid a “crackdown”. Wales and Cornwall were criticized by Country Land and Business Association (CLA) president Victoria Vyvyan ahead of the spring and summer season.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today programme, Ms Vyvyan said: “There’s been a lot of growth in the rural sector, it’s absolutely vital for farming and for diversification, but we’re approaching or maybe past the saturation point on the market scale in certain areas.

“I happen to live in Cornwall, there’s a lot of property available and that obviously has an effect.” On Wales, Ms Vyvyan said it was a “really very difficult time for our members in Wales who have moved into tourism and particularly into furnished holiday rentals”.

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She argued that none of the new regulations introduced in recent months “recognise the seasonality of letting properties to people who are far from the honey spots”. She added: “The fact that they will now have to reach 182 days of occupancy to qualify for business rates, it’s just a very unlikely target if you live in a very very remote region.”

Ms Vyvyan warned that “local councils and national governments need to be much stricter with themselves to say exactly what the problem is that we are trying to solve here”. She added: “What needs to be identified is actually a business and if it is actually a business then it qualifies for business rates regardless of the number of days I can leave.

“What would happen if it was a really bad year, for example? Where it’s sort of an addition to the income of a second home, it’s not really a business and therefore perhaps should be treated separately and differently.”