Norway Approves Tourist Tax for High-Pressure Municipalities

Norwegian municipalities with significant tourist pressure are allowed to introduce a fee of three percent per overnight stay – a tourist tax that a majority in the parliament has agreed on after long debate.

» Published: June 03 2025

Norway Approves Tourist Tax for High-Pressure Municipalities
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It is only municipalities with "particularly high burden of visitors" that are allowed to introduce the tourist tax, a tax the government calls a visitor's fee.

Camp sites are exempt, but cruise passengers and hotel guests will have to pay the fee, which is intended to finance additional costs that arise in places with many tourists.

We have removed caravans and pleasure boats to stimulate tourists to use camp sites and guest harbors instead of camping in the wild, says Erling Sande and calls the tax "accurate".

The proposal is to be taken up in the parliament on Wednesday, but the parties that have now agreed - the Labour Party (AP), the Centre Party (Sp) and the Socialist Left Party (SV) - have a majority.

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