Hotel taxes and fees
The world, shaded by what gets added at checkout.
Two hotel rooms can be advertised at the same price and settle hundreds of dollars apart, because what a government adds on top of a quoted rate ranges from nothing to roughly a quarter. This map colours countries by that gap alone: the tax and mandatory levies that appear after you have already compared prices.
It is a deliberately narrow question, and the narrowness is the point. A map of total tax burden would shade half of Europe dark and tell you nothing useful, because that tax is already inside the price you were quoted. What costs you a surprise is the part that is not, which is why some of the most heavily taxed countries in Europe sit at the light end here.
The map
What government adds on top of the room rate.
Darker means more is added at checkout, on top of the price you were quoted. It does not mean more tax: in most of Europe and in Japan the tax is already inside the rate you compared, which is why some heavily taxed countries sit at the light end. Hotel charges like resort fees are never in the colour, because no government sets them.
Argentina
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Bahrain
BelizeBermudaBhutan
Brazil
Cambodia
CanadaCayman IslandsChile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Croatia
Czechia
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El SalvadorFiji
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
IrelandIsrael
Italy
Jamaica
JapanKazakhstanKenya
Kuwait
LaosMalaysiaMaldives
Mexico
Morocco
Namibia
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
OmanPanamaPeru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
QatarRussiaRwandaSaint Lucia
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
The Bahamas
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
United KingdomUnited States
VietnamNo country by that name on the map yet. We may not have checked it, which is not the same as it having no tax.
Jumps to its sourced row below.
True Trip CostsGovernment charges only. Checked .
Added on top of the quoted rate, by government
Some of these charges are not percentages at all. Most of Europe asks for a flat few euros a night rather than a share of the room, and a flat fee has no percentage until you pick a room rate. So we picked one and we are telling you what it is: one guest, one room, 150 euros a night. Every flat fee on this map is shown as its share of that room. The consequence is worth holding on to, because it runs the opposite way to intuition: a cheaper room feels a flat fee harder than this map shows, and an expensive room barely notices it. Each country's row carries the real charge in its own currency, which is the number to use if your room is nothing like 150 euros.
- Under 5%
- 5 to 10%
- 10 to 15%
- 15 to 22%
- 22% and up
- Depends on the city, and the guide has the numbers. No single national figure would be right anywhere in it, so we give representative cities instead of one colour.
- Flat fee, modelled at one room rate. The charge here is a flat amount per night, converted at the reference room above rather than read off a real percentage. The fee in its own currency is on the country's row, and it is the more useful number of the two.
- Checked: there is a charge, figure not yet on this scale. We checked, there is a government charge, and its shape is on the country's row. Getting it onto this percentage scale needs one more step, so it sits off the scale rather than being guessed onto it.
- Checked: no tourist or hotel tax. We looked and found no tourist or hotel tax at all. This is a finding, not a gap. It is off the colour scale rather than at the light end of it, because VAT and property charges are separate questions and this map does not claim to have answered them here yet.
- Not yet checked. Almost all of the grey is countries outside the 59 we cover, not countries we looked at and gave up on. Either way it never means there is nothing to pay: grey is the absence of our work, not the absence of a tax.
How to read this without being misled
The colour answers one question: how much lands on the bill that you did not see when you compared prices. Where VAT is embedded in the sticker price, as it is across most of Europe and in Japan, almost nothing is added at checkout even though the tax is heavy. Those countries are light here. The tax is real, it is just already in the number you were quoted.
A flat fee of 4 euros a night is 2.7% of a 150 euro room, 8% of a 50 euro room and under 1% of a 500 euro suite. It is the same fee. Where a country's charge works that way we convert it at one declared room, state that room in the legend, mark the country with specks and print the real fee on its row. The colour is then comparable between countries, which is the only reason to do it, and it is not a measurement of your bill.
A resort fee or a service charge is set by the property, and there is no national figure for either. They can easily outweigh the tax, so where we hold a range it is stated on the country's row and labelled as the property's. It never touches the colour, because colouring a country by a charge one hotel invented would be a guess wearing a number's clothes.
A country colours only on the charges we can point you at a government page for. Several here have a further charge that is well attested, that we believe is real, and that we could not source to the authority that sets it. Those are named on the country's row with the reason they are not counted, and the row is tagged. It means a handful of these figures are floors rather than totals, which is the safer way round to be wrong.
We colour a country when a person has read the rate off the authority that sets it and dated it. Everything else stays grey. That leaves most of the world grey today, which is the honest state of the work rather than a design choice, and it is better than a full map with one wrong number on it.
Several countries have levies that were announced, reported widely and then deferred or dropped. A charge that is not being collected is excluded from the colour and named on the country's row, and a rise with a future date is listed as scheduled rather than folded into today's figure.
Every country we hold something for
We hold a checked, dated position on all 59 countries we cover, plus 15 beyond them: 8 with no tourist or hotel tax at all, 3 where there is a charge and its shape is known, 48 pinned to a percentage on the scale above, of which 12 are flat charges modelled at the reference room rather than real percentages, and 15 where the rate varies too much inside the country for one national number to be honest. This list is the map's real content, with the government charges separated from the property's own, and each one dated.
Maldives24% addedModelled at the reference room
24% added on top of the quoted rate, modelled from 12 USD per person, per night
The charge is not a percentage. It is 12 USD per person, per night, on top of a real 17%. The 24% above is that fee measured against one room at 150 euros for one guest, so use the figure in its own currency if your room costs anything else.
The 17% TGST is a real percentage. The green tax is 12 dollars per person per night, which is about 7% of the reference room, so the figure here is the two together at that declared room rate. At a cheap guesthouse the green tax is a far bigger share of the bill, and at an overwater villa it is a rounding error.
Resort rates here are routinely quoted before tax, so the whole stack arrives at checkout rather than in the price you compared.
- Tourism Goods and Services Tax (TGST), 17%. Added at checkout. Charged on tourism-sector goods and services including accommodation. Rose from 16% on 1 July 2025 under the seventh amendment to the Goods and Services Tax Act. In force from July 1, 2025. Maldives Inland Revenue Authority: GST rates by sector, checked .
- Green tax, 12 US dollars per person per night. Added at checkout. A flat environmental charge on each guest for each day of stay. Doubled from 6 dollars on 1 January 2025. Resorts, resort hotels and tourist vessels charge 12; a hotel or guesthouse on an inhabited island with 50 or fewer registered rooms charges 6. Children under two are exempt. In force from January 1, 2025. Maldives Inland Revenue Authority: green tax rates and exemptions, checked .
- Service charge, 10%. Set by the property, not the government. Widely applied but not a tax, and not refundable.
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Mexico21% addedRepresentative: Quintana Roo, meaning Cancun, the Riviera Maya, Tulum and CozumelMore here than this figure counts
21% added on top of the quoted rate
Two percentages stack on a Mexican room and both are sourced: the 16% federal IVA, which applies to lodging everywhere, and Quintana Roo's 5% state lodging tax. Away from Quintana Roo the state rate differs, so the national floor is the 16% IVA alone and most tourist states land somewhere between.
Not a national rate. The 16% IVA is federal and certain; the state lodging tax is set state by state, typically 2 to 5%, and several states changed it for 2026. Quintana Roo is used because it is where most US visitors stay, and it sits at the top of that band at 5%, or 6% when booked through a digital platform.
A US-facing booking site normally quotes a Mexican rate before tax, so the whole 21% arrives at checkout. If your rate said impuestos incluidos, it is already inside the price and nothing more is added.
- Federal VAT on lodging (IVA), 16%. Added at checkout. The general rate under Article 1 of the Value Added Tax Law, which applies to services including accommodation. The law is explicit that the tax does not form part of the price it is calculated on. SAT (Mexican tax authority): Article 1 of the Value Added Tax Law and the general 16% rate, checked .
- Quintana Roo state lodging tax (ISH), 5% of the room, or 6% booked through a digital platform. Added at checkout. Set by the state rather than the federation, under the reform of Article 8 of the state lodging tax law. Some rate calculators still print 4% or 3% for Quintana Roo and we believe those are stale. SATQ (Quintana Roo tax authority): the state lodging tax law, checked .
- VISITAX, Quintana Roo visitor fee, about 283 pesos per person, once per trip. Added at checkout. Roughly 16 dollars a person for the whole stay, paid online before travel and now scanned at airport departure. A 2026 proposal to fold it into hotel bills was rejected. It is not in the percentage above because it is a per-trip charge, not a nightly one. VISITAX: the official Quintana Roo state visitor tax portal, checked .
- Quintana Roo environmental charge, about 76 pesos, roughly 4 dollars, per room per night. Reported consistently but one secondary source quotes a very different figure for a similarly named charge, and we could not reconcile them against a state source, so it stays out of the fill.
- Resort fee and service charge. Set by the property rather than the government, and common at all-inclusive resorts where the IVA and state tax are usually already inside the package price.
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Bahrain19.7% addedModelled at the reference room
19.7% added on top of the quoted rate, modelled from 3 BHD per room, per night
The charge is not a percentage. It is 3 BHD per room, per night, on top of a real 15%. The 19.7% above is that fee measured against one room at 150 euros for one guest, so use the figure in its own currency if your room costs anything else.
The 10% VAT and a 5% government tourism levy are real percentages, 15% together. On top sits a flat BD 3 per room per night, which converts at the declared reference room and takes the figure to about 19.7%. All three are sourced to the government: VAT to the National Bureau for Revenue, the levy and the nightly fee to the Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority. The property-set service charge is excluded, as Rail 2 requires.
Quoted room rates here frequently exclude all of it, so ask whether the rate is all in. Bahrain adds more to a hotel bill than any Gulf state except Saudi Arabia.
- Value added tax, 10%. Added at checkout. The standard rate in the Kingdom of Bahrain, doubled from 5% in January 2022. The 2025 to 2026 budget flagged the possibility of a further rise with no rate or timeline confirmed, so this is worth re-checking before a future trip. Bahrain National Portal: value added tax at 10% in the Kingdom of Bahrain, checked .
- Government tourism levy on hotels, 5%. Added at checkout. A 5% levy on hotels and tourism restaurants, collected quarterly by the Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority. Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority e-services: the levy declaration, stating 5% on hotels and tourism restaurants and the BD 3 accommodation fee, checked .
- Tourist accommodation fee, BD 3 per room per night. Added at checkout. A flat BD 3 per room per night accommodation fee for hotels, introduced in May 2024 and collected by the Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority. Modelled at the reference room, it is about 4.7%. Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority e-services: the levy declaration, stating the BD 3 accommodation fee for hotels, checked .
- Service charge, commonly 10%. Set by the property, not the government, which is why it is here rather than in the figure above. The country guide states 25% for a Bahraini hotel bill and this charge is the difference between that and what a government levies.
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Sri Lanka19% addedMore here than this figure counts
19% added on top of the quoted rate
The 18% VAT and the 1% Tourism Development Levy, both added to the quoted room rate rather than sitting inside it. A 10% service charge usually follows, which is the property's and is not in this figure, so a rate quoted as plus plus lands closer to 29% above what you compared.
Rates here are frequently quoted net and the stack is added at checkout, so the number you compared is not the number you pay.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 19%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- Value added tax, 18%. Added at checkout. The standard rate, applied to accommodation. It rose to 18% and is added to the quoted rate rather than embedded in it. Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority: the Tourism Development Levy, alongside the Inland Revenue Department standard VAT rate, checked .
- Tourism Development Levy, 1%. Added at checkout. Levied on licensed tourism establishments under the Finance Act No. 25 of 2003 and passed through to the bill. Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority: the Tourism Development Levy and the establishments it applies to, checked .
- Colombo city component, about 4% at some Colombo hotels. Reported on bills at a number of Colombo properties but not traceable to a single municipal page that states it, so it stays out of the fill under the rule that every component behind a colour carries a real URL. Add the source and Sri Lanka moves from 19% to about 23%, which crosses into the top band.
- Service charge, commonly 10%. Set by the property and near universal on plus plus rates, so it is not a government figure and never reaches the colour.
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Dominican Republic18% added
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18% added on top of the quoted rate
The 18% ITBIS on accommodation, added at checkout rather than embedded in the quoted rate. The legally required 10% service charge is the property's and is not in this figure, so an independent booking commonly lands around 28% above the rate you compared.
There is no nightly tourist tax here at all. What arrives is the tax, and it arrives after you have chosen the room, unless you booked an all inclusive that quoted a landed price.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 18%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- ITBIS (value added tax), 18%. Added at checkout. The standard rate, applied to short-term accommodation. All inclusive resorts normally quote a price with it already folded in; independent bookings usually do not. Direccion General de Impuestos Internos: the ITBIS standard rate and its application, checked .
- Service charge, commonly 10%. The propina legal, collected by the property and distributed to staff. Legally required but not a government tax, so it stays off the colour.
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Saudi Arabia15% addedMore here than this figure counts
15% added on top of the quoted rate
This is the 15% VAT alone, the highest rate in the Gulf, which applies to hotel stays as it does to almost everything else. A municipality levy on the occupied room sits beside it and takes the government total to about 20% at four star and above, or about 17.5% at three star and below, but it is not in this figure because we do not yet have a government source for it.
Quoted rates here frequently exclude tax, so the stack arrives at checkout rather than in the price you compared.
- Value added tax, 15%. Added at checkout. The standard rate, applied to accommodation. Unlike almost all of the region, VAT on goods a visitor carries home is reclaimable under the tourist refund scheme. ZATCA (Saudi tax authority): the 15% VAT and the tourist refund scheme, checked .
- Municipality levy on the occupied room, 5% at four star and above, 2.5% at three star and below. Consistently reported and in the country guide, but we could not source it to a single government page, and a fill needs a real URL under every component. Add the source and this country moves from 15% to about 20%.
- Service charge. Added by many properties, set by the hotel rather than the government, and not a standard rate, so it never reaches the colour.
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Egypt15% addedMore here than this figure counts
15% added on top of the quoted rate
The 14% VAT and the 1% municipality tax, which are the government share. The 12% service charge that usually accompanies them is the property's and is not in this figure, so a mid or upscale bill commonly lands nearer 29% above the listed rate.
Big city hotels itemise the stack after the fact. Seaside and budget properties often fold it into the rate or skip the service charge entirely, so what you see depends heavily on where you book.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 15%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- Value added tax, 14%. Added at checkout. The standard rate, applied to accommodation. Foreign guests are required by law to settle in foreign currency at many properties. Egyptian Tax Authority: the 14% standard VAT rate, checked .
- Municipality tax, 1%. Added at checkout. A local charge applied alongside the VAT and shown as its own line on most itemised hotel bills. Egyptian Tax Authority: local charges applied alongside VAT on accommodation, checked .
- Tourism and Antiquities Support Fund fee, between 5 and 50 Egyptian pounds per room per night, set by property class. A real government charge introduced by ministerial decree in March 2023, but the amount is set per property class across a tenfold range, so there is no single figure to convert at the reference room without inventing a class. It is named here rather than folded into the colour.
- Service charge, commonly 12%. Applied by the property on top of the government stack. Widely mandated in practice and not something a hotel guest can decline, but it is not a tax.
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Aruba14.3% addedModelled at the reference room
14.3% added on top of the quoted rate, modelled from 3 USD per room, per night
The charge is not a percentage. It is 3 USD per room, per night, on top of a real 12.5%. The 14.3% above is that fee measured against one room at 150 euros for one guest, so use the figure in its own currency if your room costs anything else.
The 12.5% government tourist levy on the room rate is a real percentage, in force since 1 January 2023. On top sits a flat environmental levy of about 3 US dollars per room per night, which converts at the declared reference room to about 1.8%, so the figure here is about 14.3% together. Sourced to the 2023 tax-code amendment and BDO Aruba rather than to the Departamento di Impuesto rate page, which still shows the pre-2023 rate of 9.5% and is behind. The property-set service and resort fees are excluded, as Rail 2 requires.
The levy is genuinely added on top of a quoted rate here. Quoted rates often exclude it, so ask whether the rate is all in.
- Tourist levy, 12.5%. Added at checkout. The government tourist levy on the room rate, raised from 9.5% to 12.5% effective 1 January 2023. The Departamento di Impuesto rate page still shows 9.5% and is stale; the increase was confirmed by the 2023 tax-code amendment and litigated at the Court of First Instance of Aruba in September 2024. The levy base is broad, covering service and energy charges the guest pays for the room. BDO Aruba: the tourist levy at 12.5% as of 2023, checked .
- Environmental levy, about 3 US dollars per room per night. Added at checkout. A flat environmental levy (bijzondere belasting verblijf) charged per occupied room per night, alongside the tourist levy. Modelled at the reference room, it is about 1.8%. BDO Aruba: the environmental levy charged per room per night, checked .
- Service charge and resort fee, service often 10 to 15%, resort fees commonly 25 to 55 dollars a night. Set by each property rather than by government, and together they can outweigh the tax.
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Costa Rica13% added
13% added on top of the quoted rate
The 13% IVA on stays under 30 days. It is the whole government charge here: there is no bed tax, no city tax and no tourist levy on a hotel night in Costa Rica.
Whether you see this at checkout or inside the rate depends entirely on the channel you booked through, so the honest advice is to ask whether the rate quoted is all in.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 13%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- IVA (value added tax), 13%. Added at checkout. The standard rate, applied to short-term accommodation of under 30 days. Longer stays are treated as residential rental and fall outside it. Direccion General de Tributacion, Ministerio de Hacienda: the IVA standard rate and its application to short-term accommodation, checked .
- Gratuity charge, commonly 10%, most often on groups and on restaurant bills. Added by the property rather than the government, and applied inconsistently to room rates.
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Cayman Islands13% added
13% added on top of the quoted rate
The Tourist Accommodation Tax, 13% of the gross room rate. There is no general sales tax or VAT in the Cayman Islands, so this single charge is the entire government share of a hotel bill, and it is added rather than embedded.
Quoted rates here routinely exclude it, and the property will usually add its own service charge on top of that, which is not a tax.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 13%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- Tourist Accommodation Tax, 13% of the gross room rate. Added at checkout. Charged on the gross room rate at licensed tourist accommodation and remitted by the property. There is no general sales tax, income tax or VAT in the islands, so nothing stacks behind it. Cayman Islands Department of Tourism: licensing and inspection for tourism businesses, stating the 13% Tourist Accommodation Tax, checked .
- Service charge, commonly 10%. Set by the property rather than by government, so it is outside the figure above however routinely it appears on a Cayman hotel bill.
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Cambodia12% added
12% added on top of the quoted rate
The 2% accommodation tax and the 10% VAT, both added to the quoted rate. Stacked strictly they compound to a little over 12%, and the figure here is the plain sum, which is what appears on a bill as two separate lines.
Room rates are commonly quoted net, with the accommodation tax and VAT itemised at checkout and a service charge frequently added before them.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 12%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- Accommodation tax, 2%. Added at checkout. A specific tax on hotel accommodation, applied to the room charge including any service charge the property has added. General Department of Taxation: the accommodation tax and the VAT standard rate, checked .
- Value added tax, 10%. Added at checkout. The standard rate, applied to accommodation on top of the accommodation tax. General Department of Taxation: the 10% VAT standard rate, checked .
- Service charge, commonly 5 to 10%. Set by the property and applied before the taxes, which is why the landed total exceeds the sum of the government percentages.
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Netherlands10.3% addedAmsterdam basisPart in the price, part added
10.3% added on top of the quoted rate
The city tax is 12.5% of the room rate excluding VAT, so against the VAT-inclusive price you were quoted it lands at about 10.3%. The 21% VAT is already inside that quoted price.
Amsterdam only. Most other Dutch municipalities charge a flat few euros per person per night instead of a percentage, so a national figure would describe nowhere.
The VAT is embedded in the rate you are quoted, the city tax is added at checkout. Two government charges, and you only ever see one of them coming.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 33.5%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- National VAT on accommodation, 21%. Inside the rate you are quoted. Rose from 9% on 1 January 2026. Embedded in consumer-quoted rates, so it does not appear as a line at checkout. In force from January 1, 2026. Dutch government: VAT on overnight accommodation goes up, checked .
- Amsterdam tourist tax, 12.5% of the room rate excluding VAT. Added at checkout. The highest city rate in Europe, and it keeps applying however long you stay. City of Amsterdam: tourist tax, checked .
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Jamaica10% addedMore here than this figure counts
10% added on top of the quoted rate
The lower tourism rate of General Consumption Tax, 10% today, which is what a hotel room carries rather than the 15% standard rate charged on restaurant and shop bills. A small flat room tax sits beside it and is named below.
There is no per-person nightly bed tax here. Arrival and departure taxes are almost always already inside your airfare.
- Tourism rate of General Consumption Tax, 10%. Added at checkout. The concessionary tourism rate on accommodation, against a 15% standard rate elsewhere. Legislated to rise to 15% on 1 April 2027, which is scheduled rather than live and is excluded from the figure above. Jamaica Information Service: the revenue measures legislating the tourism GCT rise from 10% to 15% in April 2027, checked .
- Guest Accommodation Room Tax, 1 US dollar per room per night up to 50 rooms, 2 dollars from 51 to 100, and 4 dollars at 101 rooms and above. A real government charge, and small: at the reference room it is between 0.6% and 2.3%. It is out of the fill only because we do not yet have a Tax Administration Jamaica page stating the tiers. At the top tier it would take Jamaica to about 12.3%, still in the same band.
- Resort fee and service charge. Set by the property rather than the government. Many restaurant bills also add a service charge of around 10%, which is the establishment's own.
- Tourism GCT rises from 10% to 15%. Legislated in the 2026 to 2027 revenue measures. Not folded into the figure above before its date. Scheduled for April 1, 2027, so it is not counted yet.
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The Bahamas10% addedMore here than this figure counts
10% added on top of the quoted rate
The 10% VAT, which applies island-wide and is the government charge on a Bahamian room. Around Nassau, Paradise Island and Cable Beach the bill is commonly about 21% once area levies are added, but those are charged by a promotion board and by resort associations rather than by government, so they are named below rather than coloured.
There is no per-person nightly bed tax here. Your air departure tax of about 15 dollars is almost always built into your airfare, and a visitor can reclaim the 10% VAT on shopping.
- Value added tax, 10%. Added at checkout. The standard rate, applied to accommodation everywhere in the country. A stay of 45 continuous days or more is VAT exempt. Bahamas Department of Inland Revenue: the standard VAT rate is 10%, checked .
- Nassau, Paradise Island and Cable Beach area levies, roughly 11 further points, taking a Nassau bill to about 21%. Charged by the promotion board and the resort associations rather than by a government, so Rail 2 keeps them out of the fill even though they are mandatory and large. Out Island properties do not carry them. If a primary source shows any part of this uplift is a government levy, that part can colour.
- Resort fee and mandatory gratuity. Set by the property. Some resorts add a per-person nightly gratuity on top of the resort fee, and neither is a tax.
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Indonesia10% addedMore here than this figure counts
10% added on top of the quoted rate
The 10% regional accommodation tax, which is the government share. The service charge that usually accompanies it is the property's and is applied first, which is why a rate quoted as plus plus commonly lands around 21% above the base rather than 10%.
A rate quoted "nett" already contains both charges and a rate quoted "++" contains neither, and the two words are the whole difference between the price you compared and the price you pay.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 10%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- Regional accommodation tax (PB1 or PBJT), 10%. Added at checkout. Set regionally under the national regional taxes framework, so a few regencies sit slightly above this. Bali is commonly cited at 10%, occasionally at 11%, and the lower figure is used here. Regional Taxes and Levies framework, Law 28/2009 as amended by Law 1/2022, on the regional accommodation tax, checked .
- Bali tourist entry levy, 150,000 rupiah, once per trip. A real government charge on every foreign visitor to Bali, but it is paid once per trip rather than per night, so it has no honest expression as a share of a room rate and would change meaning with the length of the stay. It is named here and carried in the Indonesia guide instead.
- Service charge, commonly 5 to 10%. Set by the property and applied to the base before the tax, so the two compound.
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Panama10% added
10% added on top of the quoted rate
Lodging carries a special 10% ITBMS rate rather than the general 7%, set by article 1057-V of the Fiscal Code. Panamanian hotels commonly quote before it, so the whole 10% tends to arrive at checkout rather than sitting inside the rate you compared.
The 10% rate is statutory. Whether you see it added depends on the property, and the usual practice is that you do, which is why it colours here. A rate quoted as all in has it inside already.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 10%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- ITBMS on lodging, 10%. Added at checkout. The special accommodation rate of Panama’s transfer tax on goods and services, set higher than the 7% general rate by article 1057-V of the Fiscal Code and administered by the Direccion General de Ingresos. Direccion General de Ingresos, Ministry of Economy and Finance of Panama, the authority that administers ITBMS under article 1057-V of the Fiscal Code, checked .
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Fiji10% addedMore here than this figure counts
10% added on top of the quoted rate
The Environment and Climate Adaptation Levy, 10% on hotel accommodation. Fiji also layers 9% VAT and a service turnover tax on the same bill, so the real total here is higher than 10%, and it is not shown as one figure because no authority publishes the combined rate and the order the three are applied in changes the answer. Read this one as a floor.
Resort rates here are commonly quoted before tax, so the whole stack tends to arrive at checkout. Ask whether a rate is all in before comparing it with one that is.
- Environment and Climate Adaptation Levy (ECAL), 10%. Added at checkout. Charged on prescribed services including hotel accommodation, collected by the Fiji Revenue and Customs Service. It is the largest of the three government charges on a Fijian hotel bill and the clearest to state on its own. Fiji Revenue and Customs Service: the Environment and Climate Adaptation Levy and the services it applies to, checked .
- VAT and the service turnover tax, 9% VAT plus a service turnover tax on the same bill. Real, government-levied and deliberately not added to the fill. Combining them with ECAL would produce a figure no Fijian authority publishes, and the total depends on which base each one is charged on, which we have not established. Counting them at a guess would make this country darker on an assumption rather than on a source.
- Service charge. Where a resort or hotel adds one it is the property’s own charge, not a government levy, and it is separate from the service turnover tax above despite the similar name.
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Oman9% addedMore here than this figure counts
9% added on top of the quoted rate
The 5% VAT and the 4% tourism tax, both sourced to the government. A municipality charge on hotel occupancy of about 5% sits beside them and would take this to roughly 14%, but it is not in the figure because we do not yet have a government page for it.
Quoted room rates here often exclude the whole stack, so ask whether the rate is all in.
- Value added tax, 5%. Added at checkout. One of the lowest standard VAT rates in the world, in force since 16 April 2021 under Royal Decree 121/2020. Hotel stays are standard-rated; residential rental is exempt. In force from April 16, 2021. Oman Tax Authority: value added tax, the law and the standard rate, checked .
- Tourism tax, 4%. Added at checkout. Levied under the Tourism Law on hotel establishments and on restaurants in designated tourist areas. Government of Oman: paying the 4% tourism tax for restaurants and hotel establishments, checked .
- Municipality charge on hotel occupancy, about 5%. Reported by regional media and in the country guide, but no government page states it, so it stays out of the fill. Add the source and Oman moves from 9% to about 14%, which crosses into the next band.
- Service charge. Added by many properties on top of the government stack. Set by the hotel, not a standard rate, and not something a guest can decline.
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Singapore9% added
9% added on top of the quoted rate
The 9% GST. Hotels are expressly exempt from the tax-inclusive display rule when they levy a service charge, so the rate you compare is net and the GST arrives afterwards. The 10% service charge is the property's and is not in this figure, so a plus plus rate lands close to 20% above the quote.
There is no tourist or bed tax here. The entire gap between the rate you saw and the bill you pay is the GST and the service charge, which is why a plus plus rate matters so much in this one market.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 9%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- Goods and services tax, 9%. Added at checkout. The standard rate since 1 January 2024. Hotels and food and beverage outlets that impose a service charge are exempt from the requirement to display GST-inclusive prices. In force from January 1, 2024. Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore: the hotel and food and beverage sector, and its exemption from GST-inclusive price display, checked .
- Service charge, commonly 10%. Set by the property, and the thing that triggers the hotel exemption from inclusive price display in the first place.
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Belize9% added
9% added on top of the quoted rate
The hotel accommodation tax, 9% of the room rate, collected for the Belize Tourism Board. The 6 to 15% service charge that appears on most Belizean hotel bills is set by the property and is not counted here.
Between the tax and a property service charge, a Belize hotel bill commonly lands 15 to 25% above the rate quoted. Only the 9% is government.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 9%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- Hotel accommodation tax, 9% of the room rate. Added at checkout. Charged on accommodation and collected by licensed hotels for the Belize Tourism Board. Belize Tourism Board: hotel licensing and the 9% accommodation tax, checked .
- Service charge, 6 to 15%. Set by the property rather than by government. It is usually the larger of the two additions on a Belize hotel bill, and it never reaches the colour.
- A rise in the accommodation tax has been floated and not enacted. A higher rate in the region of twelve and a half percent was discussed publicly across 2025 and 2026. Nothing was enacted, so the legal rate remains the nine percent above and the proposal is excluded from the figure. Named here rather than left out because a reader who has seen the reporting should be able to see that we know about it and are not counting it.
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Bermuda7.25% addedMore here than this figure counts
7.25% added on top of the quoted rate
The Hotel Occupancy Tax, 7.25% of the room rate. Your bill will more often show 9.75%, because a separate 2.5% Tourism Guest Fee is usually combined with it, and that fee is named below rather than coloured. The roughly 17% service charge most Bermuda hotels add is the property’s, not government.
Bermuda is one of the places where the government share is the smaller surprise. The property service charge here is unusually high and it is not a tax, so read the two lines on your bill separately.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 9.75%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- Hotel Occupancy Tax, 7.25% of the room rate. Added at checkout. Charged on the room rate at licensed hotels and collected by the Office of the Tax Commissioner. Government of Bermuda, Office of the Tax Commissioner: hotel occupancy tax and its rate, checked .
- Tourism Guest Fee, 2.5% of the room rate, which takes the combined line on most bills to 9.75%. Almost certainly a charge a reader will see, and not coloured, because it is a separate instrument from the occupancy tax and we do not hold a government page stating it in the authority’s own words. It is carried in the total government take above so the number a reader sees on their bill is accounted for somewhere on this row.
- Service charge and resort fee, service charge commonly around 17%. Set by the property and by union agreement rather than by government, and on a Bermuda hotel bill it is usually larger than everything government charges put together.
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Austria5% addedVienna basis
5% added on top of the quoted rate
Vienna charges 5% of the accommodation price with VAT and any breakfast taken out of the base first, so a rate that bundles breakfast pays the tax on a smaller number. It rose from 3.2% on 1 July 2026 and the 11% lump-sum deduction that used to apply was dropped at the same time.
Vienna only, and Vienna is the outlier: it is the one Austrian city that charges a percentage. Everywhere else it is a flat per-person nightly fee, roughly 3.05 euros in Salzburg, 4.50 euros in Burgenland and Carinthia, and about 2.60 euros across Tyrol, which land between about 2 and 3% of the reference room.
Austrian hotel prices include VAT by law, so the VAT is not a surprise. The local tax is the part that turns up at the desk, and it is often not in the rate a platform showed you.
- Vienna local tax (Ortstaxe), 5% of the room charge, excluding VAT and breakfast. Added at checkout. Raised from 3.2% on 1 July 2026 under an amendment to the Vienna Tourism Promotion Act passed on 12 December 2025. Anyone staying more than three unbroken months is exempt. In force from July 1, 2026. Vienna Tourist Board, on the City of Vienna local tax: the rise to 5% and the basis it is charged on, checked .
- Vienna local tax rises to 8%. The second step of the same amendment. Not folded into the figure above before its date. Scheduled for July 1, 2027, so it is not counted yet.
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United Kingdom5% addedEdinburgh basis
5% added on top of the quoted rate
Edinburgh charges 5% of the accommodation cost before VAT, and VAT is then charged on the levy, which brings it back to almost exactly 5% of the VAT-inclusive rate you were quoted. Measured against the room price before VAT, as an accommodation provider would, the same charge reads as about 6%.
Edinburgh only, and it is the whole of the UK figure: England charges nothing, London charges nothing, and Glasgow and parts of Wales are scheduled rather than live. Manchester and Liverpool have small per-room charges of roughly 1 and 2 pounds a night, but those are business-district levies on the hotel rather than a tax, so they are not in this figure.
UK price rules require the total shown at booking to include the levy, so a UK-facing site may already have it in the price while a rate quoted before taxes and fees will not.
- Edinburgh visitor levy, 5% of the accommodation cost before VAT. Added at checkout. The first city-wide visitor levy in the UK, live since 24 July 2026 under the Visitor Levy (Scotland) Act 2024. Charged on the room only, not on meals, drinks, parking or transport, and capped at the first five consecutive nights of a stay. A stay booked and part-paid before 1 October 2025 is exempt. In force from July 24, 2026. City of Edinburgh Council: the visitor levy, its 5% rate and the five-night cap, checked .
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India5% addedRepresentative: a mid-range room, from 1,001 to 7,500 rupees a night
5% added on top of the quoted rate
This is the middle GST slab, which covers rooms from 1,001 to 7,500 rupees a night and is where most visitors stay. It is not the only rate: a room under 1,000 rupees pays nothing at all and a room above 7,500 rupees pays 18%, which is more than three times this fill. There is no bed tax or city tax anywhere in India, so GST is the whole of it.
Read this before reading the colour. India taxes a hotel room by what the room costs, in three bands, so this country has no single figure and the fill is one band of three. Nothing up to 1,000 rupees a night, 5% from 1,001 to 7,500, and 18% above 7,500. A luxury room is therefore in the 15 to 22% band on this map while the fill shows 5%, and the old 12% middle band was removed in September 2025, which cut the rate on exactly the rooms this rung describes.
GST is added to the room rate at checkout rather than embedded in it, and because the band is set by the actual price charged rather than a published tariff, a discount that drops a room below 7,500 rupees drops the tax rate with it.
- GST on accommodation, middle slab, 5%. Added at checkout. Set by Notification No. 15/2025-Central Tax (Rate) dated 17 September 2025, effective 22 September 2025, following the 56th GST Council meeting. It cut the middle band from 12% to 5% and removed input tax credit for rooms in that band. Rooms up to 1,000 rupees are nil rated and rooms above 7,500 rupees are at 18%. In force from September 22, 2025. Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs: Notification No. 15/2025-Central Tax (Rate) of 17 September 2025, setting the accommodation slabs at nil, 5% and 18%, checked .
- Service charge, discretionary, and declinable. Where a property adds one it is optional under consumer guidance, so a hotel guest can ask for it to be removed. Not a government charge.
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Hungary4% addedBudapest basis
4% added on top of the quoted rate
Budapest charges 4% of the accommodation price with VAT taken out and compulsory breakfast and other services excluded from the base, for every night begun, with no cap on the number of nights.
Budapest only. Elsewhere in Hungary the model is a flat few hundred forint per person per night, set town by town, which is well under 1% of the reference room, and many towns charge nothing at all.
Hungarian VAT is 27%, the highest rate in the EU, and it is already inside the rate you were quoted. The 4% is the part that is not.
- Budapest tourist tax (idegenforgalmi ado), 4% of the room price excluding VAT. Added at checkout. Set by Budapest municipal decree 31/1994 under the national Local Taxes Act. Charged per night begun, on the accommodation charge with VAT and compulsory breakfast excluded. Under-18s are exempt. Budapest Assembly decree 31/1994 on the tourist tax, in the national law register: the 4% rate and its base, checked .
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Greece4% addedRepresentative: a four-star hotel in peak seasonModelled at the reference room
4% added on top of the quoted rate, modelled from 6 EUR per room, per night
The charge is not a percentage. It is 6 EUR per room, per night. The 4% above is that fee measured against one room at 150 euros for one guest, so use the figure in its own currency if your room costs anything else.
The fee is flat per room per night and scales with the star rating and the season, from 2 euros at a one or two star hotel in low season to 15 euros at a five star hotel in peak. This models a mid ladder rung, 6 euros at a four star hotel in season, which is about 4% of the reference room. The full ladder at that room rate runs from about 1.3% to about 10%.
One rung of a published ladder, not a national rate. Peak rates run April to October, which covers most US trips, and off-season rates are roughly a quarter of them. Registered short-term rentals are charged per property per night on the same basis, 8 euros in peak season. There is no cap on nights and no exemption for children.
The 13% Greek VAT on accommodation is inside the rate you were quoted, so it is not in this figure. The resilience fee is the part that is added, and it is usually collected at the property.
- Climate Crisis Resilience Fee, 2 to 15 EUR per room, per night by star rating and season. Added at checkout. Introduced by Law 5073/2023 in place of the earlier overnight stay tax. Charged per room or rental unit rather than per person, on the official category of the property: 2 euros at one and two star hotels, 5 at three star, 10 at four star and 15 at five star in peak season, with registered rentals at 8. Off-season rates run about a quarter of these. AADE (Greek tax authority): the climate crisis resilience fee by category and season, checked .
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Iceland3.7% addedModelled at the reference room
3.7% added on top of the quoted rate, modelled from 800 ISK per room, per night
The charge is not a percentage. It is 800 ISK per room, per night. The 3.7% above is that fee measured against one room at 150 euros for one guest, so use the figure in its own currency if your room costs anything else.
The whole charge is a flat 800 kronur per room per night, so this percentage is that fee measured against the reference room and nothing more. It is per room rather than per person, so it does not double for two people sharing, and on a cheap guesthouse night it is a much larger share of the bill than this figure suggests.
The lodging tax is frequently left out of the price shown online and appears at check-in or checkout. VAT is separate and already in the rate.
- Lodging tax (gistinattaskattur), 800 ISK per room, per night. Added at checkout. Charged on hotels, guesthouses and similar licensed stays, per unit rather than per guest. Rose to 800 kronur at the start of 2025. Campsites and motorhome pitches are 400 kronur a night, and cruise passengers on domestic voyages 400 kronur a night. In force from January 1, 2025. Skatturinn (Iceland Revenue and Customs): the lodging tax and its rates, checked .
- A considerably higher lodging tax has been signalled and not enacted. A substantial increase has been publicly signalled without a rate or a date being set. Nothing is folded into the 800 kronur above, which remains the rate in force. Named here so a reader who has seen the reporting can see it is known about and deliberately not counted.
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France3.7% addedRepresentative: a 3 star hotel in Paris, at the published 2026 rateModelled at the reference room
3.7% added on top of the quoted rate, modelled from 5.53 EUR per person, per night
The charge is not a percentage. It is 5.53 EUR per person, per night. The 3.7% above is that fee measured against one room at 150 euros for one guest, so use the figure in its own currency if your room costs anything else.
This models the Paris 3 star rung, 5.53 euros per adult per night, which is the published category closest to a mid-range hotel. The ladder runs from 2.60 euros for a 1 star up to 15.93 euros for a palace, so a 4 star lands near 5.6% of the reference room and a palace near 10.6%. Accommodation VAT of 10% is embedded in the quoted rate and is not part of what is added on top.
Read this before reading the colour. This is not a national rate and not the whole of Paris: France sets the taxe de sejour per commune and then per hotel category, and Paris adds a departmental part plus a regional part that alone is 200% of the base, which is why the capital sits far above the rest of the country. Elsewhere in France a per-person night is commonly 1 to 3 euros. An unclassified or unrated Paris stay is charged differently again, at 5% of the per-person nightly cost excluding tax, capped at 15.93 euros, so a cheap unrated apartment can pay a larger share than a 5 star hotel.
Collected by the accommodation rather than included in the rate you compared, and charged per adult per night, so two people sharing pay it twice while the room rate does not change. Under-18s are exempt.
- Taxe de sejour, Paris, 5.53 EUR per adult per night at 3 star, rising to 15.93 EUR at palace category. Added at checkout. The 2026 Paris scale, in force from 1 January 2026. Each category carries a municipal rate plus a 10% departmental part and two regional parts, the larger of which is 200% of the municipal rate under Article 140 of the 2024 Finance Law. Unclassified accommodation is charged 5% of the per-person nightly cost excluding tax instead, capped at 15.93 euros. In force from January 1, 2026. Service-Public (Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information): the 2026 Paris tourist tax scale by accommodation category, including the regional surcharges and the 15.93 euro ceiling, checked .
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Saint Lucia3.5% addedModelled at the reference roomMore here than this figure counts
3.5% added on top of the quoted rate, modelled from 6 USD per person, per night
The charge is not a percentage. It is 6 USD per person, per night. The 3.5% above is that fee measured against one room at 150 euros for one guest, so use the figure in its own currency if your room costs anything else.
The tourism levy is a flat charge per person per night that steps with the room rate: 3 dollars below 120 dollars a night and 6 dollars above it. The reference room sits above that boundary, so this models the 6 dollar band. On a cheaper room the levy is 3 dollars and a larger share of a smaller bill. A reduced 7% VAT applies to accommodation as well, is not charged on the levy, and is named below rather than counted.
Charged per person, so two people sharing pay it twice while the room rate does not move. Ages 12 to 17 pay half and under-12s pay nothing.
- Tourism levy, 3 US dollars per person per night below a 120 dollar room rate, 6 dollars above it. Added at checkout. A banded flat levy collected by the accommodation and remitted to government. Ages 12 to 17 are charged half and children under 12 are exempt. VAT is not charged on the levy. Government of Saint Lucia tourism levy: the banded per-person nightly rates, the age concessions and the VAT treatment, checked .
- Reduced VAT on accommodation, a reduced 7% rate on accommodation, charged on the room but not on the levy. Named rather than counted, on MAIN’s instruction for this entry: the fill models the flat levy, which is the charge this country is unusual for, and the VAT is stated separately. That makes this fill a floor rather than the total government share, and the total is higher by roughly the reduced rate.
- Service charge and resort fee. Set by the property. Caribbean resort billing here routinely adds both, and neither is a government charge.
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United Arab Emirates3.2% addedRepresentative: Dubai at the five-star Tourism Dirham rateModelled at the reference roomMore here than this figure countsPart in the price, part added
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3.2% added on top of the quoted rate, modelled from 20 AED per room, per night
The charge is not a percentage. It is 20 AED per room, per night. The 3.2% above is that fee measured against one room at 150 euros for one guest, so use the figure in its own currency if your room costs anything else.
Almost everything on a Dubai hotel bill is already inside the rate you were quoted. What is added is the Tourism Dirham, a flat nightly charge by hotel grade, and this models the top of its range, 20 dirhams at a five-star hotel. At the bottom of the range, 7 dirhams at a one-star or a hostel, it is about 1%.
Dubai, because it is where most visitors stay, and at the top of the fee range because a room near the reference rate is a four or five star property. Abu Dhabi works differently, charging a 4% tourism fee on the accommodation bill, and Ras Al Khaimah charges a flat 15 dirhams a room a night. Sharjah, Fujairah, Ajman and Umm Al Quwain have no separate nightly tourism fee.
The 5% VAT, the municipality fee of roughly 7% and the service charge of roughly 10% are normally folded into the Dubai rate you are quoted, so they are real and they are not a surprise. The Tourism Dirham is the line that appears at checkout.
- Tourism Dirham Fee, Dubai, 7 to 20 AED per room, per night by hotel grade. Added at checkout. Charged per occupied room per night for a maximum of 30 consecutive nights, at a rate set by the category or grade of the hotel, under the Dubai tourism department resolution governing the fee. Commonly 20 dirhams at five star, 15 at four, 10 at three and two, and 7 at one star, guest houses and hostels. Official Platform of the UAE Government: hotel taxes, and the Tourism Dirham Fee of 7 to 20 dirhams per room per night in Dubai, checked .
- VAT and the Dubai municipality fee, 5% VAT and roughly 7% municipality fee. Deliberately out of the fill rather than unsourced: these are normally already inside the Dubai rate you are quoted, and this map colours what is ADDED to a quoted price. They are heavy and they are not a surprise, which is the distinction the whole map turns on.
- Service charge, roughly 10%. Set by the property under its hotel licence rather than by government, and normally folded into the rate rather than added at checkout.
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Hong Kong3% addedMore here than this figure counts
3% added on top of the quoted rate
The Hotel Accommodation Tax on the room charge, back at 3% since 1 January 2025 after seventeen years at zero. Hong Kong has no VAT or GST at all, so this is the entire government share of a hotel bill.
Whether it sits inside the rate you were quoted genuinely varies by hotel: the tax authority told the trade to update their websites and price lists to draw attention to whether rates include it, which is an admission that some do and some do not. Budget for it either way.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 3%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- Hotel Accommodation Tax, 3%. Added at checkout. Levied under the Hotel Accommodation Tax Ordinance, Cap 348, on all accommodation charges received by hotels and guesthouses. Waived to 0% from 1 July 2008 and restored to 3% by a Legislative Council resolution passed on 23 October 2024 and gazetted on 25 October 2024. The usual 10% service charge is expressly excluded from the tax base, though extras such as an additional bed are inside it. In force from January 1, 2025. Inland Revenue Department: the Hotel Accommodation Tax, its 3% rate from 1 January 2025, the charge base and the exemptions, checked .
- Exempted accommodation, rooms under 15 dollars a day, non-profit accommodation, and hotels with fewer than 10 rooms. These are exemptions rather than charges, and they are recorded here because a reader in a small guesthouse pays nothing and would otherwise read this fill as applying to them. The tax authority publishes a list of exempted hotels and guesthouses, and certain long-term stays are also generally accepted as outside the charge, decided case by case rather than at a stated number of nights.
- Service charge, commonly 10%. Set by the property and excluded from the tax base by the revenue authority, so it is neither a government charge nor part of the figure above.
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Rwanda3% addedMore here than this figure counts
3% added on top of the quoted rate
A 3% tourism tax on accommodation, in force since 1 July 2025 and charged on the room excluding VAT. Standard VAT of 18% is a separate charge and is named below rather than counted, because we have not established whether a Rwandan hotel quotes inclusive of it.
This is a new charge rather than a long-standing one, so a rate quoted before mid-2025 or an older guide may not include it at all.
- Tourism tax on accommodation, 3% of the accommodation charge, excluding VAT. Added at checkout. Introduced by Law No. 015/2025 of 27 May 2025 and effective 1 July 2025, charged on accommodation services excluding VAT and administered by the Rwanda Revenue Authority. In force from July 1, 2025. Rwanda Revenue Authority, the authority administering the accommodation tourism tax under Law No. 015/2025 of 27 May 2025, checked .
- Value added tax, the 18% standard rate, which applies to accommodation. Not counted because this map colours what is ADDED to a quoted price, and whether a Rwandan hotel quotes inclusive or exclusive of VAT is the one thing we have not established. Counting it would make this country four times darker on an assumption about display rather than on a source, and leaving it unnamed would hide the larger of the two charges.
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Portugal2.7% addedLisbon basisModelled at the reference room
2.7% added on top of the quoted rate, modelled from 4 EUR per person, per night
The charge is not a percentage. It is 4 EUR per person, per night. The 2.7% above is that fee measured against one room at 150 euros for one guest, so use the figure in its own currency if your room costs anything else.
Lisbon charges 4 euros per person per night, which is what this models. Porto is 3 euros, about 2% of the reference room, and the Algarve 2 euros. It is per person, so a couple pays it twice.
Lisbon, because it is where most visitors stay. Most of Portugal charges nothing at all: the tax exists only in the municipalities that have adopted it, and it is capped at 7 nights with under-13s exempt.
Frequently collected in cash at the property and rarely inside the rate you booked, so it arrives as a separate ask at the desk.
- Municipal tourist tax (taxa municipal turistica), 4 EUR per person, per night in Lisbon. Added at checkout. Raised to 4 euros in Lisbon, capped at 7 consecutive nights, with under-13s exempt. Porto charges 3 euros and several Algarve municipalities 2 euros, each set locally. Lisbon City Council: the municipal tourist tax, its rise to 4 euros a person a night, the minimum age and the seven-night cap, checked .
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Kenya2% addedMore here than this figure counts
2% added on top of the quoted rate
The Tourism Levy, 2% of gross accommodation sales at scheduled establishments. It is the smallest figure in this wave and it is not the whole of what lands on a Kenyan hotel bill: 16% VAT and any service charge stack on top of it, and both are named separately below.
The levy is small and the VAT behind it is not, so read this fill as the part we can state cleanly rather than as the size of a Kenyan hotel bill.
- Tourism Levy, 2% of gross accommodation sales. Added at checkout. Charged on the gross sales of accommodation and restaurant services at establishments scheduled under the Tourism Act, and collected by the Tourism Fund. Tourism Fund of Kenya: the tourism levy, its 2% rate and the establishments it applies to, checked .
- Value added tax, the 16% standard rate, which stacks on the same bill. Not counted for the same reason as Rwanda: this map colours what is added to a quoted price, and whether a Kenyan hotel quotes inclusive or exclusive of VAT varies by property and we have not established the usual case. It is much larger than the levy, which is why it is named here rather than left out.
- Service charge, commonly 10%. Set by the property rather than by government, and often shown next to the tax lines on a hotel bill as though it were one of them.
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Croatia1.8% addedRepresentative: the coast in peak season, at the Dubrovnik rateModelled at the reference room
1.8% added on top of the quoted rate, modelled from 2.65 EUR per person, per night
The charge is not a percentage. It is 2.65 EUR per person, per night. The 1.8% above is that fee measured against one room at 150 euros for one guest, so use the figure in its own currency if your room costs anything else.
The sojourn tax is set by town and season, and this models the top of the range: the coast in peak summer, where Dubrovnik charges 2.65 euros per adult per night. Off season and inland it falls to roughly 1.10 to 1.85 euros, so the honest figure for Croatia is a range and this is its upper end.
Not a national rate and not a single city. Croatia sets the sojourn tax by municipality category and by season, so the peak coastal figure is used as the representative because it is what most visitors meet, with the range given above. Under-12s are exempt and 12 to 18 year olds pay half.
Usually not inside a booking platform price and often collected in cash on arrival, which is standard practice here rather than a scam.
- Sojourn tax (boravisna pristojba), 2.65 EUR per adult, per night on the peak-season coast. Added at checkout. Charged per person per night at every kind of registered accommodation, at rates set by municipality category and season. The peak season runs April to September on the coast; outside it the rate drops to roughly 1.85 euros, and lower-category inland municipalities charge less again. Croatian National Tourist Board: the sojourn tax, who pays it and how it varies by place and season, checked .
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Czechia1.4% addedPrague basisModelled at the reference room
1.4% added on top of the quoted rate, modelled from 50 CZK per person, per night
The charge is not a percentage. It is 50 CZK per person, per night. The 1.4% above is that fee measured against one room at 150 euros for one guest, so use the figure in its own currency if your room costs anything else.
Prague charges the national maximum of 50 koruna per person per night, which is what this percentage models at the reference room. Because it is per person, two people sharing pay it twice while the room rate stays the same, so a couple lands at roughly double this share.
Prague, which sits at the legal ceiling. Other Czech towns set their own fee up to the same 50 koruna cap, many popular ones at or near it, and plenty of small municipalities charge nothing.
One of the smaller charges in Europe in absolute terms, and it is genuinely added rather than embedded, which is why it appears here at all.
- Local accommodation fee, 50 CZK per person, per night. Added at checkout. Capped by national law at 50 koruna per person per night and set by each municipality up to that ceiling. Under-18s are exempt, and it applies only to the first 60 consecutive nights. City of Prague: the local tourist fee of 50 koruna per person per night, under Act 565/1990, checked .
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Turkey1% addedPart in the price, part added
1% added on top of the quoted rate
The accommodation tax alone, currently at its temporarily reduced 1%. Accommodation VAT is separate, embedded in the quoted rate under the usual European convention, and therefore not part of what is added on top.
The accommodation tax is a separate line on the bill and the VAT is already inside the rate. Two government charges, and you only ever see one of them coming.
- Accommodation tax (konaklama vergisi), 1%. Added at checkout. Temporarily reduced from the standard 2% for stays between 1 May and 31 December 2026, and levied on the VAT-exclusive lodging price. It returns to 2% on 1 January 2027 unless the window is extended. Some online rates fold it in. In force from May 1, 2026. Turkish Revenue Administration: the Accommodation Tax General Application Communique under Expense Taxes Law No. 6802, which sets the 2% standard rate and confirms VAT is excluded from the tax base, checked .
- Service charge. Applied by some properties, particularly resorts, and set by the hotel rather than the government.
- Accommodation tax returns to 2%. The temporary reduction is legislated to end on 31 December 2026, which would double the figure this country colours on. Not folded into any figure before its date. Scheduled for January 1, 2027, so it is not counted yet.
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Poland0.5% addedRepresentative: the towns that levy it, at the 2026 national ceilingModelled at the reference room
0.5% added on top of the quoted rate, modelled from 3.46 PLN per person, per night
The charge is not a percentage. It is 3.46 PLN per person, per night. The 0.5% above is that fee measured against one room at 150 euros for one guest, so use the figure in its own currency if your room costs anything else.
Most of Poland, including Warsaw and Krakow, charges nothing at all. Where the fee does apply it is a few zloty per person per night, and the figure here models the 2026 legal maximum for the ordinary local fee, which is what a town like Gdansk charges.
Read this before reading the colour. Poland has no nationwide tourist tax, Warsaw charges nothing, and Krakow legally cannot. The fee exists only in designated resort towns and spa towns, so this fill describes those places and not the two cities most visitors actually book. In a recognised spa town the higher spa fee applies instead, capped at 6.67 zloty a night in 2026, about 1.1% of the reference room, and the two are never charged together.
Small enough in absolute terms that it rarely changes a decision, and it is collected by the property rather than shown at booking.
- Local fee (oplata miejscowa), up to 3.46 PLN per person, per night in 2026. Added at checkout. A ceiling set each year by the finance minister, with each municipality free to charge less or nothing. The 2026 limits are 3.46 zloty for the ordinary local fee, 4.89 zloty in spa-protection areas and 6.67 zloty for the spa fee itself. Commonly charged only on stays longer than one night. In force from January 1, 2026. Monitor Polski 2025 item 726: the finance ministry notice setting the 2026 ceilings for local and spa fees, checked .
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Denmark0% addedAlready in the price
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Nothing is added on top. The 25% VAT is inside the price you are quoted, as Danish law requires for consumer prices, and there is no bed tax, city tax or tourist levy anywhere in the country. The zero here is a statement about display, not about burden.
The highest hotel VAT rate in this file, and none of it appears at checkout. Denmark applies no reduced rate to accommodation and is one of very few countries with no tourist tax of any kind.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 25%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- Value added tax, 25%. Inside the rate you are quoted. The standard rate, with no reduced rate for accommodation. Embedded in consumer-quoted rates and not reclaimable on hotel stays. Skattestyrelsen, Den juridiske vejledning D.A.5.8.6: VAT liability on the letting of hotel rooms, which is standard rated with no reduced rate for accommodation, checked .
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New Zealand0% addedAlready in the price
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Nothing is added on top. GST is inside the advertised rate by convention and there is no national or local bed tax being collected. The 100 dollar International Visitor Levy is paid at the border with the travel authorisation, not at a hotel, so it is not on this axis.
Prices here are quoted GST inclusive as a matter of course, so the rate you compare is the rate you pay. The visitor levy people have read about is a border charge, and it is paid once whether you stay one night or thirty.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 15%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- Goods and services tax, 15%. Inside the rate you are quoted. Applied to accommodation and shown inclusive in advertised prices as standard practice. Not reclaimable by visitors on services consumed in New Zealand. Inland Revenue: GST, its rate and its application, checked .
- Auckland bed tax ruled out at national level. An Auckland accommodation levy had been expected to raise tens of millions a year and was publicly ruled out in August 2026. Tracked because a ruled-out levy is a position rather than a permanent state, and nothing is folded into any figure.
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South Africa0% addedAlready in the price
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Nothing government is added on top. VAT is inside the quoted rate and there is no bed tax. The 1% line that appears on many hotel bills is the TOMSA levy, which is a voluntary industry marketing levy collected by participating properties, not a tax, so it is not counted here.
The 1% levy on your bill is not a government charge, whatever it looks like next to the VAT. It is voluntary, industry run, and a property can choose not to collect it.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 15%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- Value added tax, 15%. Inside the rate you are quoted. The standard rate, applied to accommodation and embedded in quoted prices. Foreign visitors can reclaim VAT on goods exported, not on accommodation consumed locally. South African Revenue Service: the 15% standard VAT rate and the tourist refund scheme scope, checked .
- TOMSA tourism levy, commonly 1%. Collected by participating properties for industry marketing. Voluntary and not levied by government, so it never reaches the colour despite appearing beside the VAT on a hotel bill.
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Ireland0% addedAlready in the price
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Nothing is added on top. The 13.5% accommodation VAT is inside the quoted price under the usual European convention, and Ireland has no tourist tax, city tax or bed levy anywhere.
One of the few well-visited European countries with no tourist tax at all, so the rate you booked is the rate you pay. The hospitality VAT cut that took effect in July 2026 applies to food and catering, not to rooms.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 13.5%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- Value added tax on accommodation, 13.5%. Inside the rate you are quoted. The reduced rate for guest and holiday accommodation. The July 2026 cut to 9% covers food and catering services and did not change the rate on rooms. Irish Revenue: VAT treatment of guest and holiday accommodation, checked .
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Sweden0% addedAlready in the price
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Nothing is added on top. The 12% accommodation VAT is inside the quoted price and there is no national or municipal tourist tax anywhere in Sweden.
No bed tax, no city tax, and the VAT already inside the rate, which makes this one of the few places in Europe where the booking price is simply the price.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 12%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- Value added tax on accommodation, 12%. Inside the rate you are quoted. The reduced rate for accommodation, embedded in consumer-quoted prices. Skatteverket: VAT rates and exemptions, stating the 12% rate on room letting in hotel, guesthouse and hostel operations, checked .
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South Korea0% addedAlready in the price
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Nothing is added on top. VAT is inside the quoted rate and there is no bed or city tax. Foreign visitors can in fact claim the VAT back at designated hotels before departure, which makes the landed figure lower still for some travelers.
The unusual one: not only is the tax already inside the price, a foreign visitor staying at a participating hotel can reclaim it on the way out. Worth asking at check-in rather than at the airport.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 10%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- Value added tax, 10%. Inside the rate you are quoted. The standard rate, embedded in quoted rates. Refundable to foreign visitors at hotels registered for the accommodation refund scheme, subject to a stay-length limit. National Tax Service: VAT and the refund scheme available to foreign visitors on accommodation, checked .
- Service charge, commonly 10% at upper-tier hotels. Set by the property, mostly at international and luxury hotels, and not a government charge.
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Taiwan0% addedAlready in the price
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Nothing government is added on top. The 5% business tax is inside the quoted room price and there is no accommodation or bed tax. The only thing that arrives afterwards is a property service charge at higher-end hotels.
One of the lowest consumption tax rates in the region and it is already in the rate. The 10% service charge at upmarket hotels is the property's, and it is the one line worth checking before you book.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 5%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- Business tax (value added tax), 5%. Inside the rate you are quoted. The standard rate under the Value-Added and Non-Value-Added Business Tax Act, embedded in quoted consumer prices. Ministry of Finance: the business tax standard rate under the Value-Added and Non-Value-Added Business Tax Act, checked .
- Service charge, commonly 10% at higher-end hotels. Set by the property and added after the inclusive rate, so it is the one charge here that behaves like a surprise.
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Brazil0% addedAlready in the price
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Nothing is added on top. The municipal service tax on accommodation is inside the quoted daily rate rather than itemised to the guest, and there is no bed tax or tourist levy. The rate itself varies by municipality, which is why no single national total is claimed here.
The tax here is municipal and it is already folded into the daily rate, so it does not behave like a checkout surprise. That will change presentationally as the new federal consumption taxes phase in from 2026.
- ISS (municipal service tax) on accommodation, 5% in Sao Paulo. Inside the rate you are quoted. Set by each municipality between 2% and 5% under Lei Complementar 116/2003, item 9.01. Sao Paulo is at the 5% ceiling and Rio de Janeiro at 2%. Folded into the quoted daily rate rather than shown as a line. Lei Complementar 116/2003, item 9.01: the municipal service tax on accommodation and its rate ceiling, checked .
- Service charge, commonly 10%. Applied by some properties, particularly on food and beverage, and set by the hotel rather than by government.
- ISS replaced by the new IBS and CBS consumption taxes. The consumption tax reform phases in from 2026 and will change both the rate structure and how accommodation tax is presented to a guest. Nothing is folded into any figure here before it takes effect for accommodation. Scheduled for January 1, 2026, so it is not counted yet.
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Vietnam0% addedAlready in the price
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Nothing is added on top. VAT is inside the rate you are quoted and there is no tourist or hotel tax anywhere in Vietnam, so the price you compared is the price you pay. The zero is a statement about display, not about burden.
Some upper-tier properties quote a net rate and add tax and service afterwards, which is worth asking about, but the ordinary case here is an all-in price and no bed tax of any kind.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 8%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- Value added tax on accommodation, 8%. Inside the rate you are quoted. Temporarily reduced from the standard 10% and legislated to run to 31 December 2026, after which it returns to 10% unless extended again. Embedded in consumer-quoted rates either way, so the reduction and the reversion both change the price rather than adding a line to the bill. PwC Vietnam tax summary: the VAT standard rate, the temporary reduction and its end date, checked .
- Service charge, commonly 5% where a rate is quoted net. Set by the property, mostly at higher-end hotels, and not a government charge.
- VAT returns to the standard 10%. The temporary reduction is legislated to end on 31 December 2026. It would not change what this country colours, because the VAT is embedded either way, but it does change the total in the detail view. Scheduled for January 1, 2027, so it is not counted yet.
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Georgia0% addedAlready in the price
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Nothing is added on top. There is no national bed tax, hotel tax or city tax anywhere in Georgia, and the 18% VAT is inside the rate you are quoted rather than added at the desk. The zero is a statement about display, not about burden.
One of the few countries in the region where the booking price is simply the price. Do not confuse this with the US state of the same name, which does charge a per-night hotel fee.
Total government take on the room, whether you see it added or not: about 18%. This is not what colours the map, and it is not a simple sum of the parts below, because one charge is levied on the other's base.
- Value added tax, 18%. Inside the rate you are quoted. The standard rate, applied to accommodation and embedded in consumer-quoted prices. There is no reduced accommodation rate and no separate bed or city tax. Revenue Service of Georgia, the authority administering the 18% VAT that applies to accommodation, checked .
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Argentinavaries within the countryVaries within the country
Foreign tourists do not pay the 21% VAT on accommodation. The refund is applied automatically when the stay is paid with a foreign card or a foreign bank transfer, so for a US traveler the government share added to the room is effectively zero, while an Argentine resident pays the full 21%. It varies by who you are rather than by where you stay, and it is conditional on how you pay, so a single fill would be wrong for one of those two readers whichever number it showed.
Not yet coloured. Needs a decision on whether a conditional exemption should colour at zero like an inclusive-VAT country, or stay off the scale as it does here. Paying with a local card or in cash forfeits the refund, which is the condition a fill could not express.
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Australiavaries within the countryVaries within the country
GST is inside advertised prices nationwide, so for most of the country nothing is added on top. Two jurisdictions changed that: Victoria applies a 7.5% short stay levy from January 2025 and the Australian Capital Territory a 5% levy from July 2025, both aimed at short stay rentals rather than hotels. So a Melbourne apartment and a Sydney hotel are taxed completely differently, and the difference is the accommodation type as much as the state.
Not yet coloured. Needs the Victorian and ACT levy scopes sourced to their revenue offices, specifically which accommodation types are caught, before a representative figure could stand for the country.
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Canadavaries within the countryVaries within the country
Federal GST or a combined HST applies, then provinces and cities add their own accommodation levies at rates they set, so the total depends on the province and often on the city inside it.
Not yet coloured. Needs the federal rate plus representative provincial and city levies, each sourced.
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Chilevaries within the countryVaries within the country
Non-resident foreigners are exempt from the 19% IVA on accommodation at registered hotels for stays under 60 days, and the exemption is conditional on paying in foreign currency. Pay in pesos, or stay at a property outside the scheme, and the full 19% applies. So the answer here is not about the country, it is about your payment method, and a fill cannot hold that.
- Service charge, commonly 10%. Set by the property, and payable either way, since it is not a tax and no exemption reaches it.
Not yet coloured. Needs the Servicio de Impuestos Internos text for article 12 E number 17 of Decree Law 825 deep-linked, and confirmation of what counts as payment in foreign currency when a card settles in pesos, which is the case most US travelers will actually be in.
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Chinavaries within the countryVaries within the country
The 6% VAT on accommodation is the same everywhere, and what changes is whether you ever see it. Budget and domestic hotels almost always quote a rate with it already inside, so nothing lands at checkout. Many upper-tier and international hotels quote net instead and add the 6% afterwards, usually alongside a service charge of 10 to 15% that the property sets rather than the government. So the honest answer depends on the kind of hotel rather than the city, and a single figure would be wrong for one of those two readers whichever way it went.
- Service charge, commonly 10 to 15% at upper-tier and international hotels. Set by the property rather than by government, and the larger of the two additions at the hotels that apply it.
Not yet coloured. Needs the State Taxation Administration page for the 6% accommodation rate under Caishui [2016] No. 36, plus a read on how widely net quoting actually runs by hotel tier, before either case could carry a figure.
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Colombiavaries within the countryVaries within the country
Foreign tourists are exempt from the 19% IVA on accommodation at hotels registered in the Registro Nacional de Turismo, so for a US traveler entering for tourism the government share added to the room should be zero. Colombian residents pay the 19%. Two things make a single figure dishonest here: the exemption depends on the property being registered, and hotels do sometimes charge the IVA in error, which is worth checking on the bill rather than assuming.
Not yet coloured. Needs the DIAN exemption text deep-linked to Estatuto Tributario article 476, and a note on what recourse a traveler has when a registered hotel charges the IVA anyway.
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Ecuadorvaries within the countryVaries within the country
Foreign non-residents staying under 90 days pay no IVA on accommodation at registered hotels, so the 15% standard rate does not reach a US visitor who books one. On top of that the government repeatedly cuts IVA on tourism services to 8% for decreed holiday periods, which moves the figure for residents several times a year. Exempt for most visitors, and a moving target for everyone else, so there is no single number to show.
- Service charge, commonly 10% at upscale hotels. Set by the property rather than by government.
Not yet coloured. Needs the SRI registration requirement confirmed for the exemption, and the 2026 holiday decree dates, before either the exempt figure or the resident figure could be shown as settled.
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Germanyvaries within the countryVaries within the country
There is no national tourist tax. More than forty cities levy their own bed tax and most towns levy none, so the spread runs from nothing to 7.5% of the net room rate. Berlin charges 7.5% and removed its night cap in 2025, Cologne 5%, Hamburg a sliding scale worth roughly 2%, and Frankfurt a flat 2 euros per person per night. Munich and the rest of Bavaria charge nothing at all: the state banned local hotel taxes and its constitutional court upheld the ban in 2025. A national figure would describe none of these places, and the accommodation VAT is embedded in the quoted rate everywhere.
Not yet coloured. Needs a decision on whether one German city is what a US visitor overwhelmingly means. Berlin is the largest single case but does not dominate US travel to Germany the way Paris dominates France, and half the country charges nothing, so the spread is the finding rather than an obstacle to one.
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Israelvaries within the countryVaries within the country
Hotel accommodation for non-residents is zero-rated rather than exempt, which for a visitor amounts to the same thing: nothing is added to the room. An Israeli resident pays 18% VAT on the same room. The zero-rating is conditional on paying in foreign currency and on presenting a passport and the entry slip issued at the border, so it is about who you are and how you pay rather than about where you stay, and a single figure would misdescribe one of those two readers.
Not yet coloured. Needs the Israel Tax Authority VAT Law provision on zero-rated tourist accommodation deep-linked, and confirmation of the current entry-slip requirement, which replaced the older paper B2 form and is the part a traveler actually has to hold onto.
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Moroccovaries within the countryVaries within the country
Two separate charges are added at check-in here and they vary on two different axes, so no single figure describes the country. The Tourism Promotion Tax is set by hotel class, running from about 3 dirhams per person per night at a one or two star up to 5 at a three star, 7 at a four star, 25 at a five star and 30 at a luxury property, capped at 10% of the room for the top two classes and waived for under-10s. On top of that, cities levy their own taxe de sejour, which in a Marrakech-class city runs roughly 15 to 25 dirhams per person per night and is set city by city. So a couple in a five-star Marrakech room pays several times what a couple in a three-star provincial hotel pays, and neither figure would be wrong to print or right to paint.
- Service charge. Where a hotel adds one it is the property’s own charge and not a government levy, which matters here because both government charges arrive at the desk too and all three can look alike on a bill.
Not yet coloured. Needs an official Direction Generale des Impots page stating the Tourism Promotion Tax ladder under Law 47-06, plus one municipal decree for a named city’s taxe de sejour. The figures are researched and dated on Morocco’s own tax page; what is missing is a URL a reader could check them against, and a fill is exactly the claim they would want to.
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Peruvaries within the countryVaries within the country
Non-domiciled foreigners staying up to 60 days are exempt from the 18% IGV on hotel accommodation, so for a US visitor the government share added to the room is effectively nothing, while a Peruvian resident pays the full 18%. It varies by who you are rather than by where you stay, and it is conditional: the exemption runs on your passport and entry stamp, it applies at registered establishments, and it ends at 60 days. A single fill would be wrong for one of those two readers whichever number it showed.
- Service charge, commonly 10% at upscale hotels. Set by the property rather than by government, and it is charged whether or not you qualify for the tax exemption.
Not yet coloured. Needs the SUNAT text for article 76 of the IGV Law deep-linked, and a note on what a traveler can do when a registered hotel charges the IGV anyway, which is the same gap the Colombia entry carries.
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Russiavaries within the countryVaries within the country
There is no single national rate. A local tourist tax replaced the old resort fee, and it is set region by region under a national ceiling that rises every year: a maximum of 1% of the accommodation price in 2025 and 2% in 2026, climbing one point a year to a 5% cap by 2029, with a floor of 100 roubles a day. Regions adopt it individually, around 65 in 2025 and more than 73 in 2026, so whether you pay it at all depends on where you stay. Where it applies it is included in the price rather than added at the desk. A fill would have to pick one region and one year, and both would be wrong somewhere.
- The ceiling rises by one point a year to 2029. The national maximum climbs annually under the same federal law, so any figure for this country carries an expiry date. Nothing forward-dated is folded into the note above, which describes the ceiling in force now.
Not yet coloured. Needs the Tax Code text deep-linked, plus a decision on whether a rising ceiling can ever be shown as a fill on a map that carries one number per country. It probably cannot, which would make varies the permanent answer here rather than a holding one.
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Spainvaries within the countryVaries within the country
The tourist tax here is regional rather than municipal, and it only exists in some regions. Catalonia and the Balearics charge a flat amount per person per night, capped at the first seven nights, with under-16s exempt. Madrid, Andalusia, Valencia and the Canaries charge nothing. Barcelona is the heaviest case and is legislated to rise every year through 2029, while the rest of Catalonia doubles in April 2027. Accommodation VAT is embedded in the quoted rate. With no single dominant city and no tax at all across much of the country, one figure would be wrong in both directions at once.
Not yet coloured. Needs the Catalan and Balearic per-night scales sourced to their tax agencies, plus the Barcelona council schedule showing each annual step, before any representative figure could be defended.
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Switzerlandvaries within the countryVaries within the country
A low national VAT on accommodation, then a per-person visitor tax set by each commune, which commonly includes a local transport card. The levy and what it buys both change from one valley to the next, and in Zurich the charge is a voluntary hotel scheme rather than a tax.
Not yet coloured. Needs the accommodation VAT rate plus representative commune visitor taxes, each sourced, and a note on where the fee includes transport. A single national figure is not the goal here: the spread is the finding.
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United Statesvaries within the countryVaries within the country
There is no national lodging tax. State, county and city occupancy taxes stack in combinations set locally, so the total swings widely between one city and the next and a single national figure would be wrong everywhere.
- Resort fee. Set by the property, not the government, and often excluded from the headline rate. No national figure exists.
Not yet coloured. Needs representative city figures, each from that city or state revenue authority. Nothing is shown until they are sourced, because a half-filled city list reads as a complete one.
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Italya charge, not yet on the scaleFigure not yet on the scale
A government charge applies here, levied as a set amount per person, per night
An accommodation tax (tassa di soggiorno) charged per person, per night, and usually collected at checkout, often in cash. The exact amount depends on the hotel's official star rating, so treat this as a mid-range estimate. Young children are usually exempt, and some cities stop charging after about a week.
Why this is not shaded on the scale: the rate is written out on this country's own page, and moving it onto a single comparable percentage needs a person to check the base it applies to and whether it is already inside the quoted rate. Until that is done it would be a guess, so it stays off the scale.
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Japaninside the priceAlready in the priceFigure not yet on the scale
Consumption tax is inside the price you are quoted, so very little appears on top at checkout. The tax is real and it is already in the rate you compared, which is not the same thing as a cheap tax.
A government charge applies here, levied as a banded amount per person, per night, rising with the room rate
- Kyoto accommodation tax tiers rise. A scheduled increase to the banded per-person nightly rate. Not folded into any figure before its date. Scheduled for March 1, 2026, so it is not counted yet.
- A wave of new local lodging taxes takes effect. Hokkaido introduced a prefecture-wide charge with Sapporo adding a city charge on top, and Hiroshima Prefecture, Gifu City, Toba City and Yugawara each began their own. All are flat per-person nightly amounts. Named here because the count of taxing municipalities is what changes fastest in Japan, and none of it is folded into any figure. Scheduled for April 1, 2026, so it is not counted yet.
- Okinawa becomes the first prefecture-level accommodation tax. A percentage rather than a flat amount, which would make it the first Japanese accommodation tax expressible directly on this map axis, and it carries a per-person nightly ceiling. Not counted before its date. Scheduled for February 1, 2027, so it is not counted yet.
Not yet coloured. Needs the consumption tax treatment plus the city accommodation taxes that do land on top, each sourced, before this can colour.
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Norwaya charge, not yet on the scaleFigure not yet on the scale
A government charge applies here, levied as a percentage of the room rate
Norway's visitor's contribution became law on 1 July 2026, but no municipality is collecting it yet, so on a trip now there is nothing extra to pay. A town has to apply and be approved before it can charge up to 3% of the accommodation price (hotels, guesthouses, short-term rentals and cruise calls); campsites, tents and personal campervans are exempt. Tromso is targeting 1 January 2027. Leave this at nothing for a trip now, or pick the 3% option to see what a stay would cost once a town starts charging.
Why this is not shaded on the scale: the rate is written out on this country's own page, and moving it onto a single comparable percentage needs a person to check the base it applies to and whether it is already inside the quoted rate. Until that is done it would be a guess, so it stays off the scale.
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El Salvadorno hotel taxNo tourist or hotel tax
El Salvador has no per-person nightly tourist tax to settle at the desk, and since 2025 no arrival fee either. What you will see instead is <b>IVA of 13%</b>, which is normally already included in displayed prices, and at sit-down restaurants a <b>service charge of about 10%</b> printed on the bill as propina. Lodging can come to more than 13% in total, because hotels also carry a separate tourism levy, so treat the total shown on your reservation as the figure to check rather than assuming the room rate plus 13%. There is no general tourist VAT refund scheme to count on. Departure tax is included in your airline ticket, so there is nothing to pay at the airport on the way out.
What this row does not tell you: whether VAT is added on top of a quoted rate here, or already inside it. That is the question this map colours, and it has not been checked for this country yet. The finding above is that there is no separate tourist or hotel tax to add.
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Kazakhstanno hotel taxNo tourist or hotel tax
Kazakhstan scrapped its foreign-tourist bed tax nationwide, at nothing from 9 January 2024 under an order of the Minister of Tourism and Sports made on 27 December 2023. There is no per-night tourist or hotel tax to add anywhere in the country now. What has not been checked here is whether VAT is added on top of a quoted rate or already inside it, which is the question this map colours, so this row states the finding and no figure.
What this row does not tell you: whether VAT is added on top of a quoted rate here, or already inside it. That is the question this map colours, and it has not been checked for this country yet. The finding above is that there is no separate tourist or hotel tax to add.
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Kuwaitno hotel taxNo tourist or hotel tax
Kuwait has no VAT, no sales tax and no tourist or hotel tax. PwC records that Kuwait also levies no excise tax, no property tax and no transfer taxes. It is one of only two Gulf states, with Qatar, never to have adopted VAT: the GCC framework agreement was signed in 2017 but in Kuwait it remains under discussion in parliament with the draft law still in preparation. So the price you are quoted is the price you pay, and there is no refund scheme to bother with because there is nothing to reclaim. The one variable is a service charge at hotels and restaurants, which is the property's own and is not universal. Worth re-checking before a future trip, since the framework has been pending for years rather than abandoned.
What this row does not tell you: whether VAT is added on top of a quoted rate here, or already inside it. That is the question this map colours, and it has not been checked for this country yet. The finding above is that there is no separate tourist or hotel tax to add.
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Laosno hotel taxNo tourist or hotel tax
Laos has no separate nightly tourist tax to pay at checkout. A 10% VAT applies to most goods and services and is usually built into the price you see, though bigger hotels and restaurants may add it, with a service charge, on top of a net rate. There is no visitor VAT refund, so the tax is simply part of what you pay.
What this row does not tell you: whether VAT is added on top of a quoted rate here, or already inside it. That is the question this map colours, and it has not been checked for this country yet. The finding above is that there is no separate tourist or hotel tax to add.
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Namibiano hotel taxNo tourist or hotel tax
Namibia has no separate nightly tourist tax at checkout, though a small per-person bed levy is sometimes added by accommodations. A 15% VAT applies to most goods and services and is usually built into the price. There is a VAT refund scheme for goods taken out of the country, administered at departure points, but it is limited and paperwork-heavy, so most short-stay visitors do not bother.
What this row does not tell you: whether VAT is added on top of a quoted rate here, or already inside it. That is the question this map colours, and it has not been checked for this country yet. The finding above is that there is no separate tourist or hotel tax to add.
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Philippinesno hotel taxNo tourist or hotel tax
The Philippines has no nightly tourist tax to hand over at the hotel. Prices include a 12% VAT, and restaurants and hotels often add a 10% service charge to the bill. What you will meet instead are small local fees at some island destinations, for example an environmental fee on Boracay and terminal or eco fees in El Nido and Coron, usually a few hundred pesos, paid in cash. Separately, from late 2024 foreign tourists can reclaim the 12% VAT on qualifying shopping, covered below.
What this row does not tell you: whether VAT is added on top of a quoted rate here, or already inside it. That is the question this map colours, and it has not been checked for this country yet. The finding above is that there is no separate tourist or hotel tax to add.
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Qatarno hotel taxNo tourist or hotel tax
Qatar has no VAT, no sales tax and no tourist or hotel tax. It is one of only two Gulf states that never introduced VAT, so the price you are quoted is the price you pay. The one variable is a service charge at hotels and restaurants, which is set by the property rather than the government, is not a tax, and is not universal: some Doha hotels state that no service charge applies to their quoted rates at all. A draft electronic invoicing law was approved in May 2026, which regionally has tended to precede a VAT launch, so this is worth re-checking before a future trip. No implementation date has been published.
What this row does not tell you: whether VAT is added on top of a quoted rate here, or already inside it. That is the question this map colours, and it has not been checked for this country yet. The finding above is that there is no separate tourist or hotel tax to add.
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Thailandno hotel taxNo tourist or hotel tax
Thailand has no hotel or tourist tax today. A proposed arrival fee, raised in August 2026 from 300 baht to a flat 450 baht (about 14 dollars) now planned for air, land and sea arrivals with air first, has been discussed for years and is still not being collected. If it starts, it would be added to your airfare, not your hotel bill.
What this row does not tell you: whether VAT is added on top of a quoted rate here, or already inside it. That is the question this map colours, and it has not been checked for this country yet. The finding above is that there is no separate tourist or hotel tax to add.
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Bhutan
Not on the scale yet, and the figure is not small. Bhutan charges a Sustainable Development Fee of 100 US dollars per person per night for tourists who pay the fee in US dollars, which includes US visitors, paid to government with the visa and entirely separate from what the hotel costs. Against the reference room used elsewhere on this map that would be roughly 58%, which is larger than anything currently shaded. It is not shaded because the only pages stating it are travel companies rather than the Department of Tourism, and a figure this size has to be checkable.
Nothing about this sits inside a hotel rate, because it is not a hotel charge: it is a nightly government levy on being in the country, paid before you arrive. A quoted room rate in Bhutan is genuinely just the room.
- Sustainable Development Fee (SDF), 100 US dollars per person, per night, for USD-paying tourists. Added at checkout. A mandatory daily government levy on visitors paying the fee in US dollars, which includes US visitors, paid in advance through the visa application rather than at a hotel. Children aged 6 to 11 are charged half and under-6s are exempt. Nationals of India, Bangladesh and the Maldives pay under separate regional arrangements rather than this USD figure. The current 100 dollars is a discounted rate against a standard 200, and the discount runs to 31 August 2027, with no extension or reversion decided as of this writing. Bhutan Department of Tourism FAQ: Sustainable Development Fee US$100 per night for USD-paying tourists, children 6-11 half, under-6 exempt, discounted rate through 31 Aug 2027, checked .
- The discounted SDF is locked to 31 August 2027, then may revert. The 100 dollar rate is a fifty percent discount on a standard 200 dollars and is confirmed only through 31 August 2027. A reversion would double the largest added charge this map holds, so the date is tracked rather than assumed either way, and nothing forward-dated is in the figure above. Scheduled for September 1, 2027, so it is not counted yet.
- The 2026 tourism GST is separate and does not touch the SDF. A 5% tourism GST came into force in January 2026. The SDF is exempt from it, so the two do not compound and the 100 dollars is the clean added figure rather than 105. Recorded because the obvious mistake here is adding them together.
Not yet coloured. Held for one URL. The charge, the rate, the child concessions and the 2027 expiry are all corroborated; what is missing is a page at the authority that sets it. This is the largest figure in the wave and it would be the darkest fill on the map, which is precisely why it is not being shaded on a travel company’s summary.
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Malaysia
Not on the scale yet. Malaysia charges a tourism tax of 10 ringgit per room per night to foreign guests only, and it is per room rather than per person, so a family sharing one room pays 10 ringgit. Against the reference room that is a little over 1%. It is held off the scale because no page at the authority that sets it is attached yet, not because the charge is in doubt.
Malaysian citizens and permanent residents pay nothing. Collection through booking platforms is now enforced after a grace period that ended on 31 December 2025, so it may appear in a booking total or at the front desk depending on where you booked.
- Tourism Tax (TTx), 10 ringgit per room, per night, foreign guests only. Added at checkout. Charged under the Tourism Tax Act 2017 on foreign passport holders staying at registered accommodation, per room rather than per person. Malaysian citizens and permanent residents are exempt. Booking platforms are now liable to collect it, following a compliance grace period that ended on 31 December 2025. Royal Malaysian Customs Department, General Guide on Tourism Tax: RM10 per room per night, foreign guests only, checked .
Not yet coloured. Held for one URL from the Royal Malaysian Customs Department. The rate is corroborated and it is per room rather than per person, which is the detail most write-ups get wrong, so the row states it even while the fill waits.
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Changes with a date on them
Rates that have moved or are due to move, so a figure on this page can be checked against the day it changed. Only changes we have an official source for appear here.
Netherlands, Accommodation VAT rose to 21%. In force from January 1, 2026. Dutch government: VAT on overnight accommodation goes up.
Edinburgh, Visitor levy in force at 5%. In force from July 24, 2026. City of Edinburgh Council: the visitor levy, its 5% rate and the five-night cap.
Vienna, Local tax rose to 5%, and rises again to 8% in July 2027. In force from July 1, 2026. Vienna Tourist Board, on the City of Vienna local tax: the two-step rise to 5% and then 8%.
Your stay
What will the tax actually add?
Enter your own room rate, nights and party size. This is the government tax that lands on top of the rate you were quoted, computed the way that country actually charges it, which is not always a percentage. Where a country cannot honestly produce one number, it says so instead of guessing.
Government tax adds about $38 over 3 nights, about 8.4% of your room.
This is a flat charge, 5.53 EUR per person, per night, so it is the same number of dollars whether your room is 80 or 800 a night. That means it takes a much bigger bite out of a cheap room than an expensive one, which is the opposite of how a percentage behaves.
This is the government tax only. Resort fees and mandatory service charges are set by the hotel, not a government, so they are not in this figure and are often larger than it. What hotels add, and how to ask, or see cash or card for the fees a bank adds.
What this map shows, and what it does not
True Trip Costs exists to surface the money you were not quoted, whoever charges it. This map is one slice of that: the government tax and mandatory levies added at checkout, because those are the part we can pin to a single sourced number for a whole country. It is deliberately not the whole surprise. A resort fee, a mandatory service charge, an ATM fee or a card-conversion skim are unquoted costs too, often larger than the tax, and they are set property by property or bank by bank, so no single national figure exists for them. They are covered in the country guides and in cash or card, and the ones a hotel adds are summarised below.
Where the detail lives
Each shaded country above links to its own write-up, which is where the rates are kept current, sourced against the authority that sets them and dated. For the four kinds of charge that land on a hotel bill and how to tell them apart, start with the hotel taxes and fees guide. For per-night bed taxes and entry charges specifically, see tourist taxes and fees, and for what a day costs once the room is paid for, cost of a day, compared.
Government rates are read off the tax authority, ministry or city that sets them and dated on the country's row. Service charges and resort fees are set by each property, so where we give a figure it is a range from recent reports rather than a published rate, and it never affects the shading. A country left unshaded has not been checked yet, which is not the same as a country with nothing to pay. More on how we work is on our methodology page.
The fees the map cannot colour, and how to get your real number
A resort fee or a mandatory service charge is set by the hotel, not a government, so there is no national rate to shade a country by. That does not make them small. A service charge is commonly 10 to 15% of the room, and US resort fees typically run about 25 to 55 dollars a night on their own, with luxury outliers above 100, so at many properties these outweigh the tax the map shows. We hold a range where the reports support one, on the affected country's row above, always labelled as the property's rather than the government's.
How to get the exact figure before you book: ask the property directly. A resort fee or service charge is discretionary to the hotel, so the only reliable number is the one they give you. Before you book, call or email and ask two questions: what is the mandatory resort fee or service charge per night, and is it already in the rate you are quoting me or added at checkout. Get it in writing if you can. That one email is the difference between the price you compared and the price you pay, and it is the number to add to whatever this map tells you the government takes.
For the rest of the booking conversation, the wording that gets an answer, the four things to confirm in writing, and what a direct booking can actually recover, see how to pay less on hotels.
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