Tourism Taxation: Good or Bad for Cities?

Biagi, Bianca; Brandano, Maria Giovanna; Pulina, Manuela

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-61274-0_23

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“…The findings indicated that tourists are willing to pay to support these objectives. Biagi et al (2021) examined how tourist tax affects tourism demand in Italy, specifically in Rome, Florence, and Padua. They used a time series analysis, static CGE method, and DD approach, which does not take into account uncertainty.…”

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Tourist tax for sustainability: Determining willingness to pay

Göktaş¹,

Çetin²

2023

EJTR

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Tourist tax has become increasingly important to destinations worldwide to internalize the external costs of tourism and to support tourism investments, provide social services and protect the environment. Based on “the user pays principle”, tourist tax aims for a fair distribution of the costs created by tourism activity. It is therefore important to explore the tourists’ willingness to pay tourist tax, identify its antecedents, and examine outcomes of tourist tax. However, few studies have examined attitudes of tourist as taxpayers. Hence, the present study aims to the determine tourists’ willingness to pay (WTP) tourist tax to enhance sustainable tourism and identify the factors affecting their willingness. Informed by the literature review, various scenarios of willingness to pay tourist tax were created. The scenario surveys were collected from tourists staying at least one night in Istanbul. Data from 428 responses collected were analyzed by utilizing the Tobit model in the STATA v14 program. The results indicate that average amount that tourists are willing to pay varied with each scenario. The WTP was lowest when the expenditure items were not specified whereas it was highest for the cultural heritage support scenario. In line with the proposed model, willingness to pay also depended on socio-demographic variables, knowledge level, travel content, and behavioral factors.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourist tax for sustainability: Determining willingness to pay

Göktaş¹,

Çetin²

2023

EJTR

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“…One of the critical hurdles is the disparity in tax rates across nations. This disparity can create an uneven playing field in global tourism, affecting the destinations' competitiveness [144]. To counter this, DMOs need to carefully balance their taxation policies, weighing the need for competitiveness against the potential revenues required for public services and infrastructure.…”

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State-of-the-Art Review on Destination Marketing and Destination Management

Reinhold,

Beritelli,

Fyall

et al. 2023

Tourism and Hospitality

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This article presents a narrative perspective review of the state-of-the-art of destination marketing and management. The past 15 years of developments, stretching from technological advances enabling methodological progress and new consumer behavior to climate, health, and financial crises, require a reassessment of previous academic contributions and current practices. Referring back to the social origins of destinations, this article conceptualizes destinations as a heterogeneous space of flows and proposes future research linked to tourist demand and tourism supply, sustainability and resilience, technological shifts, and institutions. Finally, six broader streams of conversations suggest how to advance the marketing and management of destinations related to a destination ontology grounded in flows, with a focus on processes and action, stewardship and collaboration, resilient destinations, transient and permanent residents, as well as new instrumental technologies and augmented experiences.

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“…And it is known that expensive tourist cities (like Lucerne in Switzerland) still have issues with tourism. Perhaps increased tourism tax will lead to a modest shift in day visitors, but not much can be expected because tourism tax will remain a small part of the overall tourism expenditures and has limited specific effects (Biagi et al, 2020). Even the limitations set on AirBnB and new hotels will have a limited impact -other municipalities in the metropolitan region do not introduce such barriers, and public transport in Dutch cities is good.…”

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Planning for sustainable city tourism in the Netherlands

Nientied¹,

Toto

2022

ESR&P

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The purpose of this paper is to examine policies and planning for sustainable city tourism in Amsterdam and Rotterdam and relate them to the notions of ‘tourism reset’ that emerged during the COVID pandemic period. Amsterdam is a prime European tourist city and has been suffering from problems associated with overtourism. Rotterdam receives much less tourists and can be seen as an emerging tourist city. Both cities have recently adopted new tourism policies, essentially future tourism visions. The case of Amsterdam and to a lesser extent that of Rotterdam show that formulating and agreeing on a tourism policy vision is easier than the decision-making process and implementing a vision. The instruments and powers of local government to manage the quantity and qualities of tourism are limited. Overtourism problems have stimulated carrying capacity thinking, which is considered inadequate for a multi-faceted problem like urban tourism.

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Tourism Taxation: Good or Bad for Cities?

Cited by 4 publications

References 34 publications

Tourist tax for sustainability: Determining willingness to pay

Tourist tax for sustainability: Determining willingness to pay

State-of-the-Art Review on Destination Marketing and Destination Management

Planning for sustainable city tourism in the Netherlands

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