Yet another country plans to tax tourists in 2023, and it’s a continent-wide one. We are talking, of course, about Australia, where for the first time it is planned to introduce a fee for tourists, although so far only for visiting only some of the country’s most popular sights and only in the Northern Territory of Australia. However, later the government will tax tourists everywhere.
According to the local press, it is primarily about passes to national parks, which will be introduced starting in April 2023. The fee will be charged to both domestic and foreign tourists. A new pass is all you need to visit 50 of the Northern Territory’s 85 national parks. Moreover, it will be possible to pay for daily, weekly, and “open” visit options.
Such parks include Adelaide River Shoreline Reserve, Illamurta Springs Reserve, Mary River National Park, and Watarka National Park, which have many popular natural attractions. The price of a day pass is 10 local dollars.
“Fee revenue will be invested in the protection, maintenance, and safety of our parks and the creation of new visitor experiences,” Parks and Wildlife Executive Director Sally Egan said. In general, local experts are more in favor, noting that the measure is necessary because tourists often leave “heaps of garbage.”
We will remind you that Turkey has finally and irreversibly decided to tax tourists from the New Year – there will be no more postponement of the start of this method of budget replenishment (before this, the tourist business and the public managed to postpone it 2 times already). Details of the introduction of the tourist tax in Turkey, which will start to be collected from January 2023, were presented by the Turkish media, citing a joint communique published in the Official Gazette of the Erdogan government. This is bad news for tourists as the tourism sector had expected the tax to be delayed for another year. However, experts believe that this will not affect the demand from European tourists. Read details at this link.