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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.

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.
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