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I just heard on the radio, that Jamaica's ministry of finance announced a tourism tax package. Which includes a $20.00 per ticket fee on arriving visitors and a daily hotel room tax
of anywhere between $2.00 and I think it said $4.00 depending on the size of the hotel. I thought they just raised some kind of tax a few years ago on airfare to Jamaica. Has anyone
else heard of any talk about this? Many other places in the Caribbean much cheaper to travel to, hope this doesn't hurt Jamaica.
Don't we already pay room tax?
Yes, I believe it's something like 20% already, this new thing must be an additonal tax per day?
yes that has been circulating for a fews days now on the news.........dunno about dat $20 bucks......
ugh for us travelers...........good for Jamaica at the outset........dunno about long term
Cool Runnings, Marko
Marko- You are right, thats how the world goes round. AI's will be writing a big check to the government, were the Mom& Pop resorts might get hurt as they are already competing with the AI's as it is. I'd rather had my $4.00 that extra to the maid.
I've prepaid my hotel (including taxes) for November and bought my airline tickets last week. Wonder if that means I get out of paying the new taxes, or if I'll encounter extra fees at the airport and hotel? My airline ticket includes any existing taxes/fees, so that I wouldn't be paying anything upon arrival....except maybe this....
Yeah, this is going to hurt. for our family of four another $80. the thing that kills me is in reading the budget reports I saw nothing about controlling costs. Bad thing is this is mostly to pay debt. The $20 was not there originally, it was negotiated by the hotel industry to lower the per room tax and push it off to the tourists directly. This really saved the large resorts as the original tax was progressive based on number of units.
Not sure how much more can be charged before other options start looking more attractive to tourists.
We look to go to either Jamaica or the Yucatan, whichever has the cheapest airfare at the time. This basicly just adds to our fixed cost and could actually push us to the Yucatan.
Regards,
Bob
May or may not agree with it but it won't keep me from coming back.