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Check out Chicago or Montreal. The tourist tax is just massive.

• sologoub 8y ago
  Montreal looks to be only 3.5% extra, not exactly massive. Their sales and goods/services taxes are high, which works out to close to 20% total tax on a room. Still not that crazy. Source: https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g155032-i51-k6671607-How_much_are_hotel_taxes-Montreal_Quebec.html https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g155032-i51-k6671607-H...
  • kaffee 8y ago
    I think YUL has some of the highest airport fees for any major North American city. For example, there's an "Airport Improvement Fee" of 30 CAD (on every flight) https://www.aircanada.com/us/en/aco/home/legal/surcharges.html https://www.aircanada.com/us/en/aco/home/legal/surcharges.ht... My sense is that this is just one of many fees that hit you when you fly into Montréal. I think the total fees are more like 60-90 USD on every flight. (I'm not suggesting that high taxes are bad. I support aggressively high VAT taxes refunded to the poor and lower middle class.)
    • eigenvector 8y ago
      All Canadian airports have high AIFs (Toronto's is $25 for instance), and they are charged to everyone not just tourists. It's more to do with how airports are structured and managed in Canada versus other countries. It's a user-pay model rather than having them subsidized by the government. In fact many actually pay ground rent to the federal government.
      • volkl48 8y ago
        It's arguably not a model that has actually worked out very well for Canada. They push a significant portion of their air travelers over the US border for much cheaper flights. And they wind up with fewer flights and worse route options to their own domestic airports as a result. Ex: Burlington VT is about 40% Canadian, Plattsbugh + Niagara Falls NY are almost entirely Canadian traffic.