Tourist Taxes

Check the tourist tax before you check in

Edinburgh now adds 5% to the first 5 nights of a stay, the UK's first visitor levy. Change the place on the bill to see any of the others.

Visitor Levy 5% of the room price before VAT, on the first 5 nights of each booking

Separate the ages with commas. Leave it empty if no children are coming.

Nights charged
3
Guests who pay
2
5% of the room price (before VAT)
£18.75

Tourist tax£18.75

On the bill, a VAT-registered host adds 20% VAT to this, making it £22.50.

How the Edinburgh tax works

Worked out in your browser from the rules on each place's page. The bill your host gives you is the one that counts.

A 5-star hotel in Barcelona charges €12 a night per person, and Bhutan asks visitors for US$100 a night. We follow 37 places and link every figure to its source.

37 places checked 4 Nov 2026

New and coming soon

Levies starting in the next twelve months, and the ones that started or changed in the last twelve.

Starting soon

  1. Proposed Norway 3% of the room price before VAT, in towns that opt in, from 2027 at the earliest
  2. Proposed Thailand A proposed 450 baht per foreign visitor per entry, aimed at early 2027
  3. Glasgow 5% of the room price before VAT, every night, from 25 January 2027
  4. Aberdeen 7% of the room price before VAT, from 1 April 2027
  5. Cardiff £1.30 per person per night (75p in hostels and tents), from 1 April 2027
  6. Stirling 3% of the room price before VAT, first 7 nights, from 14 June 2027
  7. West Dunbartonshire (Loch Lomond) 5% of the room price before VAT, from 1 July 2027 (Balloch, Dumbarton, Clydebank)

Started in the last year

  1. Edinburgh 5% of the room price before VAT, on the first 5 nights of each booking
  2. Japan departure tax ¥3,000 per person each time you leave Japan, since 1 July 2026
  3. Vienna 5% of the room price before VAT and breakfast since 1 July 2026; 8% from July 2027
  4. Barcelona €6 to €12 per person per night since 1 April 2026, first 7 nights; under-17s free
  5. Catalonia (outside Barcelona) €0.80 to €4.50 per person per night, first 7 nights; rising April 2027; under-17s free
  6. Hokkaido ¥100 to ¥500 per person per night by room price since 1 April 2026; ¥300 to ¥1,000 in Sapporo
  7. Milan €3 to €12 per person per night since 1 April 2026; under-18s free
  8. Kyoto ¥200 to ¥10,000 per person per night, by the room price per person
  9. Hawaii 11% state tax plus 3% county tax on the room rate (14%), plus general excise tax
  10. Iceland ISK 800 per room per night (400 on campsites); ISK 1,600 a day for cruise passengers
  11. Paris €0.65 to €15.93 per person per night by star rating; under-18s free
  12. US national parks US$100 per non-US resident aged 16 or over at 11 national parks, on top of the entrance fee

Scotland council by council · Every change we've tracked

What two people pay for one night

Same trip everywhere: two adults sharing a €200 double in a 4-star hotel, or the nearest thing each place has, at the high-season rate. Percentage taxes bite hardest on dear rooms, which is why Amsterdam tops the list at €25.

Flat taxes ignore the price. In Rome the pair pay €15 whatever the room costs. Catalonia (outside Barcelona) is the cheapest here at €3.60.

Every European rate

Tax on one night for two, €200 room Two adults, one night, a 4-star double or nearest, before VAT. Each coin is €1.
  1. Amsterdam12.5% of the room price €25
  2. Milan€10 per person per night €20
  3. Paris€8.45 per person per night €16.90
  4. Barcelona€8.40 per person per night €16.80
  5. Berlin7.5% of the room price €15
  6. Rome€7.50 per person per night €15
  7. Florence€7 per person per night €14
  8. Greece€10 per room per night €10
  9. Vienna5% of the room price €10
  10. Venice€4.50 per person per night €9
  11. Lisbon€4 per person per night €8
  12. Mallorca, Ibiza and Menorca€3 per person per night €6
  13. Porto€3 per person per night €6
  14. Catalonia (outside Barcelona)€1.80 per person per night €3.60

Worked out with our calculator from each place's published rates.

Where are you going?

Every place we follow, stamped with its headline rate and the date it started. The page behind each stamp has the full rates, who's exempt, who collects the money, a worked example and the sources.

A travel desk in late afternoon sun: a folded map with a dotted route, a travel booklet with a hotel key card, a dish of coins, luggage tags and a pen

How to read the stamps

The ink is the region and the shape is how the place charges. A dashed stamp hasn't started yet.

  • 12 places charge a flat amount per person per night
  • 11 places take a percentage of the room price
  • 5 places charge a flat amount per room per night
  • 3 places charge per person in price bands
  • 6 places charge a fee per visit or per trip

The UK

Scotland and Wales now let councils charge, and England is next. 9 places

Europe

City taxes from Lisbon to Vienna, many of them raised in 2025 or 2026. 16 places

Further afield

Entry fees, departure taxes and price bands, from Kyoto to the Galápagos. 12 places

Guides

Places with their own rules

For hosts

  • A guide for hostsRegistering, charging guests, filing returns: what a UK visitor levy asks of you.
  • Registering in WalesEvery place to stay in Wales must register with the Welsh Revenue Authority, levy or not.
  • Edinburgh returnsThe quarterly return, the share you keep, and how VAT works.

Good to know

  • Where the money goesFestivals, trains, housing, conservation: what the money is for.
  • QuestionsDo children pay? Is it in the booking price? Can you refuse?
  • The full calculatorThe same sums on a page of their own, with the five ways places charge set out.