What you will actually pay in USA: New York City 5.875% of the room rate plus $3.50 per room per night, Las Vegas 13.38% of the room rate, San Francisco 14% of the room rate, Miami 6% of the room rate, Grand Canyon, USA USD 35, Yellowstone, USA USD 35. Add applicable entry fees below for the full total.
54 cities with nightly tourist taxes20 country entry & visa fees13 major park passes
All fees are approximate and change frequently. Check official government/park websites before travel. Currency conversions shown in USD (approximate). Visa fees depend on your passport nationality — verify with the embassy or official visa portal.
What USA charges
New York City
5.875% of the room rate plus $3.50 per room per night
5.875% of the room rate plus $3.50 per room per night in flat fees — a $2 city room fee and a $1.50 state unit fee — so a $300 room costs about $21.13 a night in lodging tax. The city fee is graduated and smaller on cheap rooms ($0.50 from $10, $1 from $20, $1.50 from $30, $2 from $40), but $40 is below any real New York hotel rate. The flat part is per ROOM, so it does not rise with the number of guests. Stay 180 consecutive days or more and you count as a permanent resident and owe none of it. On top of all this, 8.875% city and state sales tax applies — that is ordinary sales tax rather than a lodging levy, so it is not counted here, but it is on your bill.
Read at source: NYC Department of Finance — Hotel Room Occupancy Tax (nyc.gov/site/finance/business/business-hotel-room-occupancy-tax.page); NY State Hotel Unit Fee, NYS Dept of Taxation and Finance · checked 2026-10-04
Las Vegas
13.38% of the room rate
13.38% of the room rate inside the Primary Gaming Corridor, which covers the Strip and downtown, so it is what almost every visitor pays; hotels outside the corridor charge 13.00%. Nevada levies no general sales tax on lodging, so this room tax is the whole of what is added and it must be shown on your bill as a separate line. Worth knowing: the Strip is unincorporated Clark County rather than the City of Las Vegas, but the corridor rate is the same either side of that boundary. Resort fees are the hotel’s own charge, not a tax, and are extra again. One thing worth knowing if you are staying a while: the tax is only charged on your first 30 days. Reach 30 continuous days in the same place and you count as a resident guest and pay no more room tax — but check out and back in and the 30 days start again.
Read at source: City of Las Vegas — Transient Lodging Establishment Room Tax Instructions & Guidelines, Rev. March 2026, quoting LVMC 4.20.040 (files.lasvegasnevada.gov/business-licensing/RoomTaxPacket.pdf); Clark County transient lodging tax schedule · checked 2026-10-06
San Francisco
14% of the room rate
14% of the room rate, charged on stays of less than 30 consecutive nights. Stay 30 nights or more in the same room and you count as a permanent resident and owe nothing at all — not a cap but a full exemption. Rooms under $60 a day, or $149 a week, are also exempt. Tourism Improvement District assessments of roughly 1% to 2.25% depending on the district are a separate charge added by hotels rather than part of this tax, and push the total on your bill past 16% in parts of the city.
Read at source: San Francisco Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector — Transient Occupancy Tax (sftreasurer.org/business/taxes-fees/transient-occupancy-tax-tot) · checked 2026-10-04
Miami
6% of the room rate
6% of the room rate in Miami — a 3% convention development tax plus a 2% tourist development tax and a further 1%. MIAMI BEACH is different at 7%, because it swaps the tourist development tax for its own 4% resort tax, and Surfside and Bal Harbour charge 4%. On top of whichever applies, Florida adds 6% state sales tax and Miami-Dade a 1% surtax, so expect about 13% in Miami and 14% in Miami Beach once everything is counted. The tax applies to rentals of six months or less.
Read at source: Miami-Dade County — Tourist and Restaurant Taxes (miamidade.gov); Florida Department of Revenue GT-800034, sales tax on transient accommodation · checked 2026-10-04
Grand Canyon, USA
USD 35
$35/vehicle (7 days). $80 America the Beautiful annual pass covers all national parks.
Yellowstone, USA
USD 35
$35/vehicle (7 days). Annual pass $80 covers all US national parks.
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Country Entry & Visa Fees
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National Park & Attraction Passes
Major park and attraction entry fees — the ones that cost more than you expect.
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Why Tourist Taxes Have Exploded
The Overtourism Response
Venice, Amsterdam, and Barcelona are using tourist taxes to manage visitor numbers and fund infrastructure repair. Amsterdam charges 12.5% of the room price — the steepest rate in Europe, and a share rather than a flat fee, so it climbs with the price of your hotel. Barcelona hit 40 million visitors/year with a population of 1.6 million.
Conservation Funding
Bhutan's Sustainable Development Fee ($100–200/day) funds forest conservation and free healthcare/education for citizens. Rwanda's $1,500 gorilla permit directly funds mountain gorilla protection — the population has grown from 620 to 1,000+ since 2004. Higher prices = better conservation outcomes.
New Entry Authorizations
The UK's ETA (2024) and New Zealand's NZeTA join the US ESTA in creating pre-arrival fee systems for visa-waiver nationalities. The EU's ETIAS launches in 2025 — €7 for 3 years, covering 30 Schengen countries. These are not visas, but they cost money and must be arranged in advance.
Budget Planning Rule
Add 10–15% to your accommodation budget for tourist taxes in European cities. For adventure travel (gorilla trekking, Galápagos, Machu Picchu), the permit/entry fees can equal or exceed your flights. Always research before booking — some permits (Inca Trail, gorilla trekking) sell out months in advance.
Highest-Fee Destinations to Budget For
Bhutan: $100–200/person/day government fee — mandatory for all visits
Rwanda gorilla trekking: $1,500/person per trek (non-negotiable, all goes to conservation)