Greece has announced on Monday to raise fees for cruise ship passengers disembarking on the islands of Mykonos and Santorini as well as accommodation fees for all tourists in general, whether in hotels, rooms to let or short term rentals via Airbnb and other platforms.
The increased fee will be 20 euros per person in the summer, while other islands will have a significantly lower charge at 5 euros.
The new fees will be implemented June 1 to September 30, 2025, Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni announced.
For April, May and October, the charge will drop to €12 for Santorini and Mykonos and to €4 for the other islands. For the period from November to March the charge will amount to €4 for Mykonos and Santorini and €1 for the other island destinations.
According to the calculations of the ministry, the total revenue is expected to reach €50 million. A third of the revenue will go to municipalities, another third to the Shipping Ministry for the improvement of port infrastructures, and the rest to the Ministry of Tourism.
Accommodation fees
Regarding short-term rentals the government will be monitoring their standards: “The Ministry of Tourism is working on the operating framework for short-term rentals,” said minister Olga Kefalogianni, pointing out that “operational and safety specifications will be established, as well as a control tool for compliance with this framework,” so that the activity in question develops for the benefit of the industry as a whole.
The Tourism Minister announced that the climate crisis fee will increase from €0.5 to €2 in the winter months and from €1.5 to €8 in the summer months.
She added that the climate crisis reciprocity fee is expanding by one month, both for short-term rentals and for hotels and accommodation, and pointed out that part of the revenue from the fee will be entered into the ministry’s budget to cover prevention costs and restoration of natural disasters and infrastructure improvement costs of the tourism product.
The resilience fee increases for the months of April to October: By €0.5 in one- and two-star hotels and in rooms for rent, climbing to €2 per night; by €2 in three-star hotels and rises to €5; by €3 in four-star hotels to reach €10; and by €5 in five-star hotels and villas, rising to €15 per night.
Kefalogianni also noted that this year’s direct revenues from tourism are estimated to reach an unprecedented €22 billion.
source: ertnews.gr
If the climate fee goes up from 1.5 eur per day to 8, the number of tourists will decline significantly.
I think that this is the deathbed of short term rentals and a deathnell to the supplemental income they provide to many greeks.
Not a good article, as you have mixed up the landing fee for cruisers with the room fee. But it is something completely different.
But what I would really like to know is whether the 8 euros per night also applies to private rooms and studios that were built especially for tourism. Just like the thousands of holiday rooms on the islands.