Bruges, Madrid, Amsterdam and Berlin are among the European destinations ready to lure British tourists away from France by ruling out a Brexit tourist tax.

Tourists are facing a €5 (£4.10) surcharge to visit attractions such as the Louvre museum and Notre Dame cathedral in Paris because the UK has left the EU.

However, authorities in other cultural hotspots told The Telegraph that Britons could dodge the higher prices by coming to their cities instead.

Dirk De fauw, the mayor of Bruges, which welcomed seven million tourists last year, said: “We will never make a difference between European inhabitants and non-European inhabitants.

“For us it is all the same if they come from Mexico, or if they come from China, or if they come from Korea, or if they come from London.”

He added: “Bruges has also always been an open city where everybody is welcome. We will not close the doors or close the gates of the city and put taxes on it.”