Dubai News

We have had this recent update on Dubai, Dubai is to introduce tourist tax Visitors to Dubai will be charged a room tax from the end of March to help fund projects for the 2020 World Expo convention, it has been announced The Tourism Dirham’ tax will apply to all guests staying at hotels, hotel apartments, guesthouses and holiday homes from March 31. The fee, ranging from AED 7 (£1.17) to AED 20 (£3.33), according to the type of accommodation, will be charged per room, per night, adding up to £23 to the cost of a one-week holiday. This tax will apply to all passengers arriving after the end of March irrelevant of when they booked their holiday. I think we should start to charge tax for people visiting us as well, join Rome, Dubai, Las Vegas amoung a few, we could then put it towards our NHS. ‘