Queenstown sticks to its guns on bed tax, eschews border levy
Plans to hike the international visitor levy to as high as $100, have been met with opposition.
Queenstown.
Brent Melville
Mon, 17 Jun 2024
Key points
- What’s at stake: MBIE wants to ratchet up the cost of tourist arrivals by as much as three-fold to $100 per visitor, pushing returns up by as much as $173m per year.
- Background: The IVR was rolled out in 2019, set at $35 and aimed at helping pay for tourism infrastructure. There are question marks as to how the money is being allocated, and significant push back on potential allocation to Tourism NZ.
- Main players: MBIE, Hotel Council Aotearoa, Tourism NZ, QLDC, RotoruaNZ, Glyn Lewers, Andrew Wilson.
Queenstown continues to push for a local bed tax as a solution to its overloaded tourism infrastructure, in preference to government’s plan for a “disingenuous” increase in the international visitor levy (IVL).
In a submission to the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE), the
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Brent Melville
Mon, 17 Jun 2024
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Key points
- What’s at stake: MBIE wants to ratchet up the cost of tourist arrivals by as much as three-fold to $100 per visitor, pushing returns up by as much as $173m per year.
- Background: The IVR was rolled out in 2019, set at $35 and aimed at helping pay for tourism infrastructure. There are question marks as to how the money is being allocated, and significant push back on potential allocation to Tourism NZ.
- Main players: MBIE, Hotel Council Aotearoa, Tourism NZ, QLDC, RotoruaNZ, Glyn Lewers, Andrew Wilson.
Queenstown sticks to its guns on bed tax, eschews border levy
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