Travelers may encounter a tourist tax or fee depending on their destination.

That additional travel cost could come up if a person visits one of the slew of places around the world that have such charges. Factors that spurred the taxes can vary, ranging from climate change to overtourism, according to reports.

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Five locales with tourist taxes or fees include:

The roughly $5.35 daily tourist access fee for Venice, home to the Rialto Bridge, Doge’s Palace and St. Mark’s Basilica, launched as a pilot on Thursday after it received the go-ahead from city officials in mid-September. It targets day-trippers coming into the city between 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is required on specific dates in April, May, June and July during the test period.

International tourists can face an “International Tourist Tax” while exiting Japan, per the Japanese National Tax Agency. It amounts to about $6.30 per departure and must be paid by those taking planes or boats to do so.

While the city’s nightly tax for travelers staying at tourist accommodations has existed for quite some time, it went up at the beginning of the month, becoming about $3.47. It is capped at seven nights. Catalonia, the region where Barcelona is located, also has a graduated tourist tax that’s size is determined by one’s accommodation, according to The Points Guy.

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Bhutan, nestled in the Himalayas in Asia, asks most tourists to hand over nightly Sustainable Development Fees of $100 for adults and $50 for ages 6-12. It charges a differently-priced fee from those coming from India. The money goes toward “various projects that create long-term, sustainable opportunities for the Bhutanese people,” the country’s department of tourism website said. 

New Zealand’s tourist tax, called the International Visitor Conservation and Tourism Levy, costs $35. Tourists encounter it during the visa application process. The country requires it for “most people entering New Zealand on a temporary basis” such as vacation and certain student and short-term work visas, according to the government. 

Travel and tourism provides major benefits to local economies and the global economy alike.

Countries around the world will see travel and tourism produce $11.1 trillion in 2024, according to a report recently released by the World Travel & Tourism Council.

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Part of that will include spending by international travelers. They will reportedly contribute $1.89 trillion, according to the WTTC.

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Starwood Capital Group CEO Barry Sternlicht reportedly had to raze his beach house on the Nantucket coast.

The demolition of the house, which the billionaire has owned for over a dozen years, occurred earlier in the week, according to the Nantucket Current.

The plot of land where the house stood on the Massachusetts island has borders to both the beach and Hummock Pond.

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Sternlicht was driven to raze the home, which was on steel girders, by severe erosion of the beach, per the outlet. Several dozen feet of beach near it eroded in 2020 as a result of hurricanes in 2020, per the outlet, and the situation only worsened after that. 

Some homes elsewhere on Nantucket have been similarly impacted by beach erosion, with the issue looming over others too, according to reports.

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Sternlicht’s beach house sprawled 1,800 square feet and featured three bedrooms, per the Nantucket Current.

Its tear-down required permission from the Nantucket Historic District Commission. He reportedly received that in March.

Sternlicht had originally wanted to take the home off the lot and make the neighboring one that also belongs to him its new location, but it ended up not being possible, according to Vanity Fair. That property reportedly cost $1.3 million.

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The billionaire declined FOX Business’ request for comment on the home’s reported demolition. He has built a personal fortune of $3.8 billion over the course of his career, Forbes has estimated.

His Starwood Capital Group left Connecticut and made Florida the home of its headquarters in 2018.

Homes in the city of Nantucket, which is not far away from where Sterlicht’s beach house was, had median asking prices of $4.5 million in March, according to Realtor.com. For sale prices, the median was $4 million.

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