The Norwegian government is proposing that all municipalities introduce a tourist tax. This means that an overnight stay could be a maximum of five percent more expensive, according to the government proposal that is now being put out for consultation, reports Norwegian news site E24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The tax, or visitor fee, will be levied on overnight stays and is intended to finance additional costs that arise in places with a lot of tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The industry organization NHO Reiseliv is against it. It will only make it more expensive to visit Norway, even for Norwegians themselves, they say. Norwegians account for two out of three overnight stays in Norwegian hotels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The same debate emerged in Sweden recently, where several municipalities raised the issue of introducing local tourist taxes, but were not heard by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Source: TT-DI.SE<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Den norska regeringen f\u00f6resl\u00e5r att alla kommuner ska f\u00e5 inf\u00f6ra en turistskatt. Det inneb\u00e4r att en \u00f6vernattning kan bli maximalt fem procent dyrare, enligt regeringsf\u00f6rslaget som nu ska ut p\u00e5 remiss, rapporterar norska nyhetssajten E24. Skatten, eller bes\u00f6ksavgiften, ska tas ut p\u00e5 \u00f6vernattningar och \u00e4r t\u00e4nkt att finansiera merkostnader som uppst\u00e5r p\u00e5 platser med mycket […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":298445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[387,155,5208,655],"class_list":["post-298444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turism","tag-norge","tag-turism","tag-turistbranschen","tag-turistskatt"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n