Organized by wto the pan asia pacific technical seminar on tourism taxation was held in kochi kerala india 23 24 april 1998 with the aim of analyzing the overall role of taxes on the development of tourism reviewing the tax treatment of hotels and other tourist accommodations tax treatment of transport and tax affecting tour operators and travel agents reviewing other types of taxes levied directly on tourists such as exit and entry charges consumption taxes environment taxes . Tourism taxation in asia and the pacific seminar report amazoncouk world tourism organization books select your cookie preferences we use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience to provide our services understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements and display ads. In the caribbean tourism tax applies in about 20 of the main islands including the bahamas barbados bermuda haiti jamaica st lucia and the us virgin islands in asia there are tourist taxes in places like indonesia and malaysia following japans move with this form of taxation the authorities in thailand are also considering it in india tourist taxes apply but they are not uniform throughout the country. It aims to increase inbound tourism receipts to 177 billion 922 billion philippine pesos by the end of the administrations term in 2022 from 68 billion in 2016