Our booking system offers three ways to report tourist tax. The method you use depends on how you process tourist tax.
In this article, you will find three ways to report tourist tax:
Charged tourist tax (options and surcharges).
Tourist tax via booking export (Excel).
Tourist tax based on actual stays.
1. Charged tourist tax via surcharge
Use this method if you calculate tourist tax as an option or surcharge on the booking.
Select the tourist tax surcharge.
Choose the desired period.
View or export the results.
Note: This method no longer works once the surcharge has been archived. Therefore, only archive your surcharges after you have completed your reporting.
2. Booking export to Excel
Use this method if you want an overview of all bookings or if you want to perform calculations in Excel.
Go to Reservations.
Click Export.
Select 'Include options and surcharges'.
In Excel, filter the Options and surcharges column on 'Tourist tax'.
You will now see all bookings for which tourist tax has been calculated.
3. Actual stays
Use this method if you want to base tourist tax on guests who have actually checked in.
Important: For accurate reporting, bookings must be checked in and checked out correctly. Also note that this report does not look at the amount of a surcharge, but at a fixed tourist tax amount configured per accommodation.
You can find this report via: Reports > Administrative reports > Tourist tax.
Setting up automatic check-in and check-out
Because correct check-in and check-out are important for this method, we recommend enabling automatic check-in and check-out. This is a convenient way to prevent errors.
Go to Settings > Account > General > Other tab.
Find 'Automatically check in and check out bookings based on scheduled check-in/check-out'.
Select the desired option.
This allows the booking system to process stays accurately based on the scheduled dates, ensuring that tourist tax is calculated correctly.
Configuring tourist tax per accommodation
Check that the tourist tax is configured correctly for each accommodation:
Click Settings next to the relevant accommodation.
Open the Administrative tab and review the value configured in the Tourist tax field.