Generalitat chief Ximo Puig agrees that the tourist tax, whose bill was registered this Monday by Botànic parties in Parliament, will affect Europe. “in a negative way” to activities related to tour operatorswhich harder to beat prices. In this sense, he estimates that municipalities will not apply this tax in destinations where tour operators work the most, such as Benidorm and other tourist towns on the Costa Blanca. According to the recorded text, tax voluntary and municipaland municipalities, the councils will decide whether to apply an extra fee of between 0.5 and 2 euros per night per stay. Thus, the head of Consell, noting the tourist tax “not eccentric”confirms that this will be implemented in other more urban destinations such as Valencia, where it believes it will be implemented because a “very small” tax and “as we see when passing through Europe” is practically inconclusive for the traveler.
Puig confirmed that the tourist tax would not be applied immediately in the Community of Valencia because “it was not the right time”, but argued that it was a “small” tax for the traveller. This Monday, PSPV-PSOE, Compromís and Unides Podem registered the bill to create the Valencian tax on tourist stays in Cortes, and it will go into effect a year after its ratification, so it is expected next November. implementation would begin at the end of 2023.
Botànic’s proposal, called “financial measures to promote sustainable tourism”, designs measures to promote, promote and develop sustainable tourism. Asked about concerns that its possible implementation in the next year might create in the industry, Puig assured that at the moment there is “no possibility” to activate the tourism tax and that it will not be implemented this year. Another thing he clarifies is that there is a tax whose implementation should be discussed, because “an overall positive outlook for environmental taxation”He added that as practiced in many parts of Europe, this is not just a problem emerging in the Valencian Community.
He also emphasized that the approach he advocated was the following. share the responsibility of its implementation with the concierges and therefore “will never be implemented if the city council does not want it”. In addition, he assures that “more capacity for dialogue is quite difficult” because, in his view, there is ongoing debate over the implementation of this ratio, which is rejected by much of the tourism industry, such as the hotel business. He stressed that it was done in a “consensual” way.