Tourists arriving in St. Petersburg will be required to pay a resort fee of 100 rubles per day. The corresponding law will come into force on October 1, but the rates will start to be collected from April 1, 2024. You will have to pay for each day of accommodation in the hotel.
Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov signed the law on the introduction of the tourist tax. This was reported by the governor’s press service.
The law will come into effect on October 1, 2023, but the rates will start to be collected from April 1, 2024. You will have to pay for each day you stay at the hotel, except the first day. Fees will be charged only to persons who have reached the age of 18.
More than twenty categories of citizens (large families, veterans and others) will be exempted from fees, including those who have a permanent job and property in St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg has more than 1.2 thousand accommodation units, the estimated budget income is estimated at 310 million rubles in the first year, said the representative of the Governor of St. Petersburg in the Legislative Assembly Konstantin Sukhenko.
Funds received from fees will go towards improving the resort’s infrastructure facilities.
Author:
Kirill Bilyk
Source: RB
I am a professional journalist and content creator with extensive experience writing for news websites. I currently work as an author at Gadget Onus, where I specialize in covering hot news topics. My written pieces have been published on some of the biggest media outlets around the world, including The Guardian and BBC News.
