Accommodation Tax Will Support Burlington’s Tourism Efforts – Hamilton | Globalnews.ca

you can add burlington For a growing list of Ontario municipalities that will begin charging visitors a municipal housing tax.

The four percent fee will take effect in October and will be levied on guests staying at Burlington hotels and motels.

Chris Smith, executive director of Tourism Burlington, said the tax is expected to generate between $450,000 and $700,000 in annual revenue to raise awareness, support new tourism initiatives and expand its marketing reach.

“Our marketing reach, and especially with covid Has been quite local,” Smith said. “This will allow us to expand our marketing efforts provincially, and even beyond our provincial borders.”

“Burlington has a beautiful waterfront, a beautiful downtown core, we have the Burlington Performing Arts Center, art gallery, Conservation Halton, lots of outdoor activities and amenities and a truly growing culinary destination,” Smith said. “Those things are not promoted as much as they could be, and that is our hope through this program.”

A similar housing tax is planned, or is already in place, in more than 40 other Ontario municipalities.

“If we don’t have those resources we’re not going to be able to compete,” Burlington Mayor said. marian mead ward, “We want to be able to compete and attract our share of visitors.”