Venice Tourist Tax (Imposta di Soggiorno)

How much is the Venice tourist tax per night?

In a hotel in the historic centre the tax is 1.00 EUR a night in a one star hotel, 2.00 EUR in a two star, 3.50 EUR in a three star or three star superior, 4.50 EUR in a four star or four star superior and 5.00 EUR in a five star or five star luxury hotel. The same scale applies to alberghi diffusi, the scattered hotels made up of rooms in several buildings (Comune di Venezia, 2015).

The figure is charged per person and per night, so two people staying four nights in a four star hotel in the centre pay 4.50 EUR each per night, or 36.00 EUR in total. The charge stops after five consecutive nights in the same property, so a ten night stay is taxed as five (Comune di Venezia, 2024).

These are base rates before the reductions set out below. Where several reductions apply they are worked out one after another rather than added together: the regulation gives the example of a base charge of 100 with a 20 per cent and a 50 per cent reduction, which leaves 40 (Comune di Venezia, 2024). Amounts are rounded to the nearest ten cents, with five cents rounded down (Comune di Venezia, 2015).

Venice tourist tax rates by accommodation type

Hotels are only one part of the table. Villaggi albergo and residenze turistico alberghiere pay 1.00 EUR at two stars, 2.00 EUR at three and 3.00 EUR at four. Complementary accommodation is graded in lions rather than stars: alloggi turistici, furnished tourist units and bed and breakfasts pay 2.00 EUR at two lions, 3.00 EUR at three, 4.00 EUR at four and 5.00 EUR at five, while case per vacanze run from 2.00 to 4.00 EUR across two to four lions (Comune di Venezia, 2015).

Open air accommodation is much cheaper. Campsites pay 0.10 EUR a night at one star rising in ten cent steps to 0.50 EUR at five stars, and tourist villages pay 0.50 EUR at two stars, 1.00 EUR at three and four and 1.50 EUR at five (Comune di Venezia, 2015).

Short term rentals, the locazioni turistiche that cover most apartment bookings, are graded by the land registry category of the flat. Group 1 (categories A/1, A/8 and A/9) pays 5.00 EUR a night, Group 2 (A/2, A/3, A/6, A/7 and A/11) pays 4.00 EUR and Group 3 (A/4 and A/5) pays 3.00 EUR, with effect from 1 January 2019 (Comune di Venezia, 2018). A trade press summary published in April 2026 lists the same hotel and rental figures as still current (TTG Italia, 2026).

Reductions for the islands, the mainland and January

Four reductions exist and they can be combined. Accommodation on the lagoon islands gets 20 per cent off, with the historic centre, the Giudecca and the islands of San Servolo, San Clemente, Sacca Sessola and La Certosa left out of that discount; five star hotels on the islands get 10 per cent rather than 20. Accommodation on the mainland, which means Mestre, Marghera and the rest of the Terraferma, gets 30 per cent off (Comune di Venezia, 2024).

There is a seasonal reduction of 30 per cent for nights outside the high season. The regulation defines high season as 1 February to 31 December, which leaves January as the only discounted month of the year (Comune di Venezia, 2024).

Young people aged between 10 and 16 pay half the rate that would otherwise apply (Comune di Venezia, 2024).

Two limits are worth knowing. The location reductions for the islands and the mainland do not apply to short term rentals, which pay the full group rate wherever they are (Comune di Venezia, 2024). And because reductions are applied successively, a stay that qualifies for several of them lands well below the headline figure: a four star hotel night on the Lido in January for a 12 year old works out at 4.50 EUR reduced by 20, 30 and 50 per cent in turn.

Who is exempt from the Venice tourist tax?

The regulation lists ten exempt categories (Comune di Venezia, 2024). Children up to their tenth birthday pay nothing, and neither do people registered as residents of the Comune di Venezia. Guests staying in accommodation used by the city administration or its institutions are exempt.

Three health related exemptions cover people undergoing rehabilitation therapy at health facilities in the municipality, one companion for each patient admitted to such a facility, and both parents when they are accompanying a sick child. These three require a certificate from the health facility naming the patient and the period of treatment, handed to the accommodation.

Coach drivers and tour escorts working with organised groups of at least 25 people are exempt, at one driver per coach and one escort per 25 participants. Volunteers giving social service in the city during events organised by the municipal, metropolitan or regional authorities, or during environmental emergencies, are exempt. So are members of the armed forces, the police and the national fire service staying on duty, and people with a disability that is evident or certified under Italian law or the equivalent rules of their own country.

There is no general exemption for students, for long stays or for guests who booked through a platform. Everyone else pays.

How you pay the Venice tourist tax

You pay the accommodation, not the city, and usually at check in or check out. The tax is almost never included in the rate shown on a booking platform, so budget for it separately. The operator is the party legally responsible for handing the money to the Comune, with a right of recourse against the guest (Repubblica Italiana, 2011).

The operator has to tell you the amount, the deadline and the method before you pay, and has to give you a receipt once you have paid (Comune di Venezia, 2024). Ask for that receipt if it is not offered. The operator also has to register the property on the municipal tourist tax portal, report the number of taxable, exempt and excluded nights within 15 days of the end of each calendar quarter, and pay over the money in the same period, with a grace of five working days for the funds to reach the city account.

Failing to report, or reporting late or wrongly, carries a fine of 25.00 to 500.00 EUR for each breach (Comune di Venezia, 2024). If you are charged tax you did not owe, you can claim a refund within five years of the payment, with documents attached, though the city does not process refunds of 12.00 EUR or less per quarter.

The money is earmarked for tourism and city promotion, support for accommodation businesses, and the upkeep and restoration of local cultural and environmental assets and the public services attached to them (Comune di Venezia, 2024).

Venice tourist tax or Venice entry fee?

These are two different charges and you normally pay only one. The tourist tax is the overnight charge described above. The access fee (contributo di accesso) is the day visitor charge introduced under a separate 2019 regulation, which applies it expressly as an alternative to the tourist tax (Comune di Venezia, 2019).

The 2019 regulation exempts from the access fee anyone staying in accommodation inside the municipality who is liable for the tourist tax, and says that exemption runs from the day of arrival to the day of departure (Comune di Venezia, 2019). In practice, if your hotel or apartment is adding the imposta di soggiorno to your bill, you are not also buying an access fee ticket for the nights of that stay.

The two charges are very different in scale. The tourist tax raises about 38 million EUR a year for Venice, while the access fee raises less than 5 million EUR a year before the cost of running it (VeneziaToday, 2026).

The access fee applies only on a published list of dates, only in the historic city and the minor lagoon islands, and only during set hours, and exempt visitors still have to register. Our Venice entry fee page has the current calendar, the prices and the full exemption list.

The proposed rise to 9 euro a night

On 7 September 2026 the city administration set out to trade associations the guidelines for a revision of the tax (VeneziaToday, 2026). The plan would take the top rate for five star hotels in the historic centre from 5.00 EUR to about 9.00 EUR a night, below the national ceiling of 10.00 EUR (Repubblica Italiana, 2010). Venice currently has the lowest tourist tax of the large Italian tourist cities, where the maximum rates run from 7 to 10 EUR.

The proposal also redraws the map. A first zone would cover the historic centre, the Giudecca, Murano and Sacca Sessola at the highest rates. A second zone covering the Lido, Burano, Pellestrina, Sant'Erasmo, Vignole, Torcello and Mazzorbo would charge the same rates from 1 April to 30 September and half those rates from 1 October to 30 March. The mainland would get its own scale, 16 to 25 per cent below the historic centre depending on category. That structure would replace the present arrangement in which January is the only low season month (VeneziaToday, 2026).

The stated aim is to raise annual revenue well above the current 38 million EUR and to spend it on street cleaning, more local police officers, urban maintenance and cultural events. Nothing has changed yet: the revision still has to go through consultation and a vote in the city council, and the administration expects it to take effect no earlier than next year.