What’s at stake: A new national overnight accommodation levy to help fund tourism.
Background: Auckland’s Accommodation Provider Targeted Rate was designed to raise between $13 million and $15m to pay about half of the destination marketing budget of economic development and promotion agency Tātaki Auckland Unlimited (Tau), but was suspended over Covid and has not returned.
Main players: Auckland Council, Hotel Council Aotearoa, James Doolan, Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown, Clinton Farley.
The body representing New Zealand’s hotel sector, which was formed to fight a controversial bed tax first proposed by Auckland Council in 2017, has said it cautiously supports a new national overnight accommodation levy, as long as the charge is well designed and applied consistently across the
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What’s at stake: A new national overnight accommodation levy to help fund tourism.
Background: Auckland’s Accommodation Provider Targeted Rate was designed to raise between $13 million and $15m to pay about half of the destination marketing budget of economic development and promotion agency Tātaki Auckland Unlimited (Tau), but was suspended over Covid and has not returned.
Main players: Auckland Council, Hotel Council Aotearoa, James Doolan, Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown, Clinton Farley.
