Article - Rome doubles hotel tax

[Pauline]

Telegraph - Rome doubles hotel tax
Hotel tax in Italy is to double from today – adding up to €112 (£89) to the cost of a one-week holiday for a family of four

That will fix the Italian economy! Or drive away the tourists?

 

[ItalophileNJ]

But it's still not anywhere near as high as hotel taxes here in US. Did the initial hotel-tax imposition hurt business?

 

[Pauline]

Things just seem to be getting more expensive for the European traveler, and this is just one more thing. The hotel tax in the US always surprises me.

Is the Rome hotel tax added into the daily rate, or added on after as it is in the US?

 

[ItalophileNJ]

My recollection is that the hotel tax was 1 Euro per day per room, added on to the final bill. So in a 200 Euro per night room, this was 0.5%; now it would be 1.0%. Last time I checked, hotel taxes in most US locations are more like 15%.