Last verified: August 8, 2026. I re-verify this page monthly against each comune’s own tariff pages. The next scheduled update is Venice’s final 2026 access-fee report, expected this month, followed by the 2027 access-fee calendar over the winter.
Italian towns collected a record €1.15 billion in tourist tax during 2025, up 12.8% in a single year (JFC National Observatory, via Travelnostop, 2026). Almost none of that appeared on anybody’s booking confirmation.
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That’s the whole problem with the Italy tourist tax. You book a room, you pay for the room, and then at check-out someone asks you for cash you didn’t budget for. The amount depends on the town, the class of place you booked, how many people are in the room, and how many nights you stayed. No single national number exists to look up.
So here’s the current picture of the Italy tourist tax. What nine major destinations charge, who gets out of paying, how the night caps work, and what a real ten-day trip adds up to. Every figure below carries a date, and I re-check each comune’s own tourist tax page monthly.
Key Takeaways
- The Italy tourist tax isn’t one national charge. Each comune sets its own, levied per person per night on top of your room rate, and usually collected in cash at check-out.
- Rates run €1 to €10 in most places. Rome sits at €3 to €10, and Milan is temporarily matching it at €10 through the end of 2026 only.
- Around 1,411 municipalities now charge it, up 24 on last year, collecting a record €1.15 billion in 2025 (JFC National Observatory).
- Venice’s day-tripper access fee is a completely separate charge. If you’re staying overnight in Venice, you never pay it.
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Italy Tourist Tax: How Much Is It, and Who Charges It?
The Italy tourist tax isn’t one national charge. Each comune sets its own imposta di soggiorno, levied per person per night on top of whatever you booked. Roughly 1,411 municipalities now levy one, 24 more than last year (Sky TG24, April 2026). Most rates land between €1 and €10.
The growth here is genuinely startling. When the Italy tourist tax was reintroduced in 2011, exactly 13 comuni charged it and the whole country collected €77 million (JFC, via Ilmetropolitano, 2025). Fifteen years later it’s near-universal in anywhere a tourist might sleep, and the 2026 take is forecast above €1.2 billion.
Two things changed on January 1, 2026. The Budget Law lifted the national ceiling for major art cities to roughly €12 per person per night. Ordinary provincial capitals stayed capped nearer €7 (idealista, January 2026). Separately, comuni within 30 km of a Milan–Cortina Olympic venue were allowed to add up to €5 a night for the year.
Raising the ceiling isn’t the same as raising the rate, and most cities haven’t used the new headroom yet. Rome, for one, has stayed at €10. But the direction of travel is obvious, and the money is real: five cities alone account for well over half a billion euros a year. Our other Italy trip-planning guides track the rest of the costs that arrive after booking.
What Does Each City Charge Per Night?
Rome and Milan top the table at €10 per person per night for the best hotels. Florence reaches €8, Naples €6, and Venice’s overnight tax runs a comparatively gentle €1 to €5. Below the headline rate, every city runs its own ladder based on your accommodation’s official class. Our guide to what Florence costs beyond the tax puts that €8 next to the museum prices.
| Destination | Rate per person, per night | Night cap | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rome | €3 to €10 | 10 nights | €10 at 5★, €7.50 at 4★, €6 at 3★, €5 at 2★, €4 at 1★, €6 for B&Bs, short-term rentals and convents, €3.50 hostels, €3 campsites |
| Milan | €3 to €10 | — | €10 at 4–5★, €7.40 at 3★, €9.50 short-term rentals and B&Bs, €3 hostels. Olympic rates, 2026 only |
| Florence | €3.50 to €8 | 7 nights | €8 at 5★, €7 at 4★, €6 at 3★ and for B&Bs and holiday flats, €4.50 at 2★, €4 hostels and convents. Rates since February 2025. See where to stay in Florence |
| Venice | €1 to €5 | 5 nights | In the old city: €5 at 5★, €4.50 at 4★, €3.50 at 3★, and €3 to €5 for tourist flats (most pay €4). Hotels on the Lido and the mainland pay less. Separate from the day-tripper access fee. See where to stay in Venice |
| Naples | €4 to €6 | — | A €1 rise to a €6 ceiling is under negotiation; no start date published |
| Lecce | €2 to €5 | 5 nights | High season Apr 1 to Oct 31: €5 at 5★, €4.50 at 4★, €4 at 1–3★, €3 for B&Bs and holiday flats, €2.50 for short-term rentals (7 nights). Winter €1.50 to €4. Full Puglia ladder in our Puglia travel guide |
| Palermo | €3 to €5 | 4 nights | Since Jul 1, 2025: €5 at 5★, €4.50 at 4★, €4 at 3★ and for every B&B, holiday flat and short-term rental, €3 at 1★ |
| Catania | €3 to €5 | 4 nights | Since Feb 1, 2026: €5 at 5★, €4 at 4★, €3.50 at 1–3★ and B&Bs, €3 for holiday flats and tourist apartments |
| Cortina d’Ampezzo | €2 to €5 | 5 nights | Since Jan 1, 2023: €5 at 5★, €4.50 at 4★, €3.50 at 3★, €2.50 at 2★, €2 at 1★; under-12s exempt; no Airbnb collection agreement |
| Corvara in Badia | €3.80 | No cap | Flat at every class since Jan 1, 2024; Alto Adige system, under-14s exempt; Val Gardena hotels quote €2.90 to €4.50 |
| Bologna | €4 to €7 | 5 nights | Banded by room price: €4 under €31, €5.80 to €70.99, €6.50 to €120.99, €7 above €121. Short lets 10.5% capped at €7 |
| Turin | €3 to €5 | 7 nights | €3 at 1–2★, €3.50 at 3★, €4.50 at 4★, €5 at 5★, €3.80 at a B&B |
| Genoa | €2 to €5 | 8 nights | Hotels €2 to €5 by star. B&Bs rose to €4 and tourist flats to €5 on Aug 1, 2026 |
| Trieste | €2 to €3.80 | 5 nights | Up 50% on Jan 1, 2026: €3.80 at 5★, €3.30 at 4★, €3 at 3★, €2 to €2.30 for B&Bs |
| Verona | €1.50 to €5 | 4 nights a month | Cap resets monthly. 20% off for 15–25s and over-70s |
| Padua | €2 to €3.50 | 5 nights | Raised Jul 1, 2024 by council resolution 192: about €3.50 at 4★, €2.50 at 3★ |
| Sorrento | €1.50 to €5 | — | €5 at 5★, €4 for B&Bs and apartments |
| Amalfi | €3 to €5 | — | €5 at 5★, €4 at 4★, €3 at 3★ and for B&Bs and rentals, April to early November. See where to stay on the Amalfi Coast |
| Ligurian Riviera | Around €5 | — | Portofino, Rapallo, Santa Margherita, Zoagli |
Sources: idealista (February 2026), The Local (December 2025), Quality Travel (2026).
One quirk worth flagging: short-term rentals often cost more in tax than a comparable hotel. Milan charges €9.50 a night for a B&B or holiday let, which is more than a three-star hotel pays. Rome applies a flat €6 to rentals regardless of how basic the flat is. If you’re choosing between a budget hotel and an apartment, run the tax into the comparison.
Is Venice’s Access Fee the Same as the Tourist Tax?
No, and this trips up more travellers than anything else on this page. They’re two separate charges, and nobody pays both on the same day. The access fee is an entry charge for day visitors to the historic centre. Anyone with an overnight booking inside the city is exempt from it, and pays the ordinary overnight tax instead.
How the access fee works
The fee applied on 60 dates in 2026, from April 3 to July 26, enforced between 08:30 and 16:00 (Comune di Venezia, 2026). You register online, get a QR code, and show it at checkpoints near Santa Lucia station and the main entry points. Miss it and the fine runs into the hundreds.
The pricing has a catch that costs people real money. It’s €5 per person if you register at least four days ahead, and €10 if you leave it inside three days, including on the day itself. Same visit, same city, double the price for booking late.
Beyond overnight guests, exemptions cover children under 14, Venice residents, people born in Venice, students, and commuters. Worth knowing: August isn’t covered at all. The busiest month of the year fell entirely outside the 2026 enforcement calendar.
That overnight exemption points somewhere useful. Treating Venice as a day trip costs you a fee, a QR code, and the worst hours of the crowd all at once, which our Venice travel guide works through in full. Booking a night removes all three, and the overnight tax at €1 to €5 is cheaper than the late-booking access fee. Our Italy travel guide makes the same argument from the itinerary side.
What Happened to Venice’s Fee This Summer?
Venice’s 2026 access-fee season closed on July 26. The city issued more than 650,000 paid vouchers and collected over €5 million across the 60 enforcement days (Wanted in Milan, July 2026). Council officials said early analysis pointed to crowding easing on the worst days, with a fuller report to follow.
Compare that with 2025: 54 enforcement days, more than 720,000 paying visitors, and €5.42 million (The Traveler, 2025). So Venice ran the scheme on six extra days in 2026 and collected slightly less from slightly fewer people. Whether that’s the fee working as intended or simply a quieter summer is exactly what the final report has to settle.
Here’s the number that should shape how you plan. Fewer than half the people who paid booked far enough ahead to get the €5 rate (Euronews, June 2026). Most visitors turned a €5 charge into a €10 one purely by leaving it late. For a family of four over 14, that’s €20 of avoidable cost, and the fix takes about ninety seconds online.
What the mayor wants next
Mayor Simone Venturini used that same statistic to argue the current €10 ceiling isn’t deterring anyone. In June 2026 he proposed replacing the flat rate with dynamic pricing, topping out at €50 on the busiest days. Doing that needs central-government approval. He also confirmed 2026 was the third and final year of the trial.
What does that mean for planning a 2027 trip? Genuinely unsettled dates and prices. The trial has ended, the mayor wants a much higher ceiling, and the decision sits with the city council and Rome. I’ll update this page as soon as the 2027 calendar drops, which historically happens over the winter.
Why Did Milan Jump to €10, and What Else Is New?
Milan’s rates rose on January 1, 2026. A national decree let comuni within 30 km of a Milan–Cortina Olympic venue add up to €5 a night (Il Sole 24 Ore, 2026). Four- and five-star hotels went from €7 to €10. It’s a one-year measure, set to lapse at the end of December 2026. Cortina itself didn’t move: its ladder has stood since January 2023, and the Dolomites guide has the valley-by-valley rates.
That expiry date is worth circling. Nobody writing about Milan mentions it, but a trip in February 2027 should cost less in tax than the identical trip in November 2026. The 30 km radius also catches towns well outside the city, so smaller places near the Olympic sites are charging Olympic prices this year.
Milan’s full 2026 ladder, per person per night:
- €10 at four- and five-star hotels
- €9.50 at short-term rentals and B&Bs
- €7.40 at three-star hotels
- €7 at holiday homes
- €5 at two-star, €4 at one-star
- €3 at hostels and campsites
Rome charged for the sights instead
Rome went a different way. Rather than raise the overnight tax, the city started charging for things that used to be free. A €2 access ticket for the Trevi Fountain basin arrived on February 2, 2026, along with paid entry at several smaller municipal museums. Verona now charges for Juliet’s house and balcony too.
Keep those separate in your head. Monument charges aren’t tourist tax, they don’t count toward any night cap, and no exemption applies to them beyond residency. They’re just tickets, and our complete Italy travel guide covers the booking windows for the ones that sell out.
Who’s Exempt, and How Many Nights Do You Pay?
Most comuni cap the number of consecutive nights the Italy tourist tax applies to, and most exempt young children — but both limits move from city to city. Rome stops charging after 10 consecutive nights, Florence after 7, Venice after 5. Stay longer and the extra nights are free of tax.
The child exemption is the one people get wrong. Rome exempts under-10s. Plenty of other comuni use under-12 or under-14, and Venice’s access fee uses 14. There’s no national age, so check the comune if you’re travelling with a nine-year-old and counting euros.
Standard exemptions elsewhere cover hospital patients and one accompanying family member, coach drivers and tour staff, and residents of the comune. Some towns also exempt people displaced by emergencies, and a handful drop the tax entirely in the low season. It’s one more way the month you travel changes what you pay.
One thing to verify locally: whether the night cap follows the comune or the property. In most cities it follows the comune, so moving from one Rome hotel to another mid-trip doesn’t reset your ten nights. Ask at check-in if you’re doing a long stay in one city, because hosts don’t always apply it correctly.
How and When Do You Actually Pay It?
You pay the Italy tourist tax at the property, nearly always at check-out, and often in cash. Your host collects it on the comune’s behalf and passes it on. That’s why it almost never appears in what you paid Booking.com or Airbnb. The room rate and the tax are two different transactions.
Expect it to come up as an afterthought at check-out rather than at booking. Smaller B&Bs and guesthouses often can’t take the tax on a card at all, because it sits outside their normal payment flow. Notes save an awkward five minutes at the door.
Your host has to issue a receipt for the tax, separate from the room bill. Take it. The published rates live on each comune’s website. If a property charges above the listed rate, that receipt is what settles it.
Short-term rentals collect it the same way. They now sit inside Italy’s CIN registration regime, so the comune knows exactly which flats should be remitting. In a growing number of cities, Florence and Rome among them, Airbnb collects the tax automatically at booking (Comune di Firenze; Roma Capitale). Check your confirmation before assuming you owe cash on arrival. My Italy Airbnb rules guide lists who collects it in each big city. What else happens at the desk, from the passport check to the CIN code, is in my guide to where to stay in Italy.
Practical advice: carry €40 to €60 in cash for a multi-city trip. That’s usually enough to cover the tax at every stop without hunting for an ATM at check-out.
What Will the Italy Tourist Tax Cost Your Trip?
We ran the numbers on a standard ten-night Rome–Florence–Venice trip for two adults, using the 2026 tariffs in the table above. The Italy tourist tax comes to €120, before a single ticket or meal. That’s four nights in a Rome four-star (€7.50 each, €60), three nights in a Florence B&B (€6 each, €36), and three nights in a Venice holiday flat (€4 each, €24).
For two adults and two teenagers, the same trip runs €240. Swap the teenagers for a six- and eight-year-old and Rome’s under-10 exemption knocks the Roman leg back to the adult figure. Florence and Venice may still charge, depending on their own cut-offs. It’s not a trip-defining sum. It is a nice dinner, and it belongs in the wider trip budget rather than in a surprise at check-out.
The night caps change the maths on longer stays, which is where the chart below gets interesting. A couple parked in Venice for ten nights pays the same tax as a couple staying five.
Where the money actually goes
So where does it all end up? The standard line is that the tax funds the city you’re visiting, and that used to be entirely true. Since the 2026 Budget Law it isn’t. Thirty percent of the increase from Jubilee-linked rises now flows to the national budget. In the Olympic-zone comuni, the state takes half the increase (JFC National Observatory, January 2026).
The rest still stays local, earmarked for tourism and cultural upkeep. But “your tourist tax pays for the city you’re in” is now a partial answer, and it’s worth knowing which part.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much is the tourist tax in Italy?
Between €1 and €10 per person per night in most comuni, set locally and scaled to your accommodation class. Rome runs €3 to €10, Florence €3.50 to €8, and Venice €1 to €5 for overnight stays. Around 1,411 municipalities charged it in 2026 (JFC National Observatory).
Is the tourist tax included in my hotel booking?
Almost never. Your host collects it separately on the comune’s behalf, usually at check-out and often in cash, on top of whatever you paid the booking site. In ten Italian cities Airbnb now collects it automatically at booking, so check your confirmation first.
Is Venice’s access fee the same as the tourist tax?
No. The access fee is a separate day-tripper charge for the historic centre. It applied on 60 dates between April 3 and July 26, 2026, at €5 to €10 per person. Anyone staying overnight in Venice is exempt, and pays the ordinary overnight tax instead.
Do children pay Italy’s tourist tax?
Usually not, but the cut-off varies by comune. Rome exempts under-10s, many other cities use under-12 or under-14, and Venice’s day-tripper access fee exempts under-14s. No national age exists, so check the comune if you’re travelling with children near the threshold.
How many nights do you pay tourist tax for?
Most comuni cap it. Rome charges for a maximum of 10 consecutive nights, Florence 7, and Venice 5. Beyond the cap, further nights in the same city carry no tax. The cap usually follows the comune rather than the property, so changing hotels mid-stay doesn’t reset it.
The Short Version
The Italy tourist tax isn’t large, but it’s genuinely unpredictable, and that’s what makes it annoying rather than expensive. Six things carry most of it:
- No national rate exists — check the comune, not the country.
- Budget €3 to €10 per person per night in the big cities, €1 to €5 in smaller ones.
- Carry cash. Plenty of smaller properties still prefer it, and a receipt is your protection.
- Venice’s access fee is separate, and staying overnight means you skip it entirely.
- Milan’s €10 is an Olympic measure that lapses at the end of 2026.
- Night caps and child exemptions are real money on longer trips.
Before you book, check the current entry requirements for Italy too. The border rules changed more this year than the tax rates did. And for how the tax fits into everything else you’ll spend, our complete Italy travel guide puts the daily numbers side by side.
