According to a draft decree that emerged this summer, Giorgia Meloni's government is mulling raising the tourist tax - currently around five euros a night - to 10 euros for rooms costing 100 euros, 15 for those costing more than 400, and 25 euros for luxury suites costing over 750 euros.
We mustn't scare away tourists with taxes that are too high,” Marina Lalli, head of professional body Federturismo, told AFP. “We already have a very high rate of VAT (sales tax), at 22 percent, and if we add new taxes we risk damaging Italy's competitiveness, especially for all-inclusive, organised trips.
At a time of overtourism we are discussing (the tourist tax) so it can be a real help to improve services and make the tourists who pay it more responsible,” she wrote on social media in early August.
Increasing the tax would be profiteering. I would go elsewhere, to other countries that didn't have such a tax,
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