In 2024, communities’ budgets received almost UAH 273 million in tourist tax, which is almost 23% more than in 2023 (UAH 222 million 618 thousand) and 53% more than in 2022 (UAH 178 million 949 thousand), the press service of the State Agency for Tourism Development (DART) reports.
Kyiv and five regions are among the leaders in paying the tourist tax.
The capital’s budget received the largest amount of tourist tax – UAH 49 million 182 thousand. In 2023, this amount amounted to UAH 30 million 378 thousand, and in 2022 – UAH 31 million 474 thousand.
The budget of Lviv region was replenished by UAH 47 million 108 thousand. This is almost as much as the amount of revenues received by the regional budget in 2023 – UAH 46 million 85 thousand. This amount is 14% higher than in 2022, when the budget of Lviv region received UAH 41 million 430 thousand of tourist tax.
In Ivano-Frankivsk region, the amount of tourist tax increased by 84% compared to 2023 – up to UAH 33 million 99 thousand, when the regional budget received UAH 17 million 956 thousand. In 2023, the region’s tourist tax amounted to UAH 20 million 408 thousand.
Cherkasy region received UAH 23 million 532 thousand in tourist tax. In 2023, the amount was slightly less – UAH 21 million 574 thousand, in 2022 it was 87% less – UAH 12 million 555 thousand.
The amount of tourist tax in Zakarpattia region last year amounted to UAH 23 million 93 thousand. It is almost the same as in 2023 – UAH 22 million 161 thousand, and 19% more than in 2022 – UAH 19 million 471 thousand.
Dnipropetrovska oblast closes the list of leaders with UAH 15 million 960 thousand. Compared to 2023, the amount of tourist tax in the region increased by 21% to UAH 13 million 219 thousand. In 2022, the region’s tourist tax amounted to UAH 9 million 210 thousand.
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Thailand’s government on Tuesday approved a decision that all foreign tourists entering the country will be charged a fee of 150,300 baht – landing tax, local media reported.
“Thailand’s Cabinet has approved a decision to charge a tourist fee upon entering the country. The fee will range from 150 baht for those arriving at land borders to 300 baht 650 baht for those arriving at airports,” the newspaper said.
The tentative date for the fee is June 1, 2023.
It will not be paid by those entering Thailand on diplomatic passports and work permits. The fee will also not be charged for children under the age of two years and transit passengers who spend less than a day in the country.
The government has also instructed the Bureau of Immigration to introduce a rule whereby tourists will be able to use receipts for tourist fees from a previous trip when applying for a re-entry permit.
Minister of Tourism and Sports Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, speaking to reporters after the Cabinet meeting, explained that the fee will be used to promote domestic tourism and insurance while tourists are in Thailand.
This is not the first time the Thai authorities have announced plans to introduce a levy on foreign tourists. In January 2022 they announced their intention to introduce a fee in April of that year. Its size was also supposed to be 300 baht. Then the fee was postponed to January 1, 2023, but was again postponed, as opposed by representatives of the tourism business, fearing that its introduction will slow the recovery of foreign tourist traffic after the pandemic coronavirus.
Tourist tax in Kyiv for January-September 2022 amounted to UAH 47 million 360.9 thousand.
As Oleksandr Prokopenko, Deputy Director of the Department of Finance of the Kyiv City State Administration, told Interfax-Ukraine, for the same period in 2021, the tourist tax in the capital amounted to UAH 31 million 411.7 thousand. Thus, he noted, despite the war in the country, this figure is growing.
