The tourist tax in Mykolaiv increased by 77% compared to the previous year

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In the first half of 2024, the budget of Mykolaiv received 662 thousand hryvnias of tourist tax, which is 77% more than in the same period of 2023.

This is stated in the article NikVesti «How the war affected the hotel and restaurant business of Mykolaiv».

In 2021, Mykolaiv demonstrated positive results, reaching 3.2 million hryvnias in tourism tax revenue, which exceeded the approved plan of 1.95 million hryvnias. It was a time of active development, as compared to 2020, the tourist tax increased by 182%.

However, the situation changed dramatically in 2022. Instead of the planned 2.38 million hryvnias, the budget received only 563 thousand hryvnias. The reasons for this are clear: constant shelling, mass exodus of the population, destruction of infrastructure.

2023 marked the beginning of a slow recovery. Although the planned indicators were significantly reduced to 240 thousand hryvnias, the actual receipts amounted to 737 thousand hryvnias. This was an unexpected improvement against the background of the previous year and indicates a gradual return of interest in the city, primarily on the part of foreign partners visiting Mykolaiv.

«Starting from 2023, the tourist tax gradually began to grow as a result of the arrival of foreign delegations that came to participate in reconstruction projects, for example,» said the Department of Economy.

For the first half of 2024, the tourist tax amounted to 662 thousand hryvnias, which is 77% more than in the same period of the previous year. In general, the budget for 2024 provides for 750 thousand hryvnias of tourist tax.

«We are already visited by non-business tourists. For example, there was a family from Poland that came to see the places where there were the biggest destructions in Ukraine,» noted the director of the Department of Economics, Tetiana Shulichenko.

We will remind that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Mykolayiv region has lost 7 million hryvnias in tourist tax. In 2021, the tourist tax in the Mykolaiv region amounted to 7.9 million hryvnias, in 2022 — 800 thousand hryvnias, and in 2023 a little more — almost 900 thousand hryvnias.