Accra tourism levy 2026: 1 percent on hotels, restaurants and tours

Visitors to Accra pay a 1 percent tourism levy on hotel bills, restaurant bills and other licensed tourism services in 2026. The figure comes from the Ghana Tourism Authority itself, whose Tourism Development Fund page calls it a one per cent tourism levy, payable by a patron of a tourism enterprise, and charged on the net cost of service or products purchased.

Who collects it

The same page says an operator must be licensed and certified to act as an agent of the authority before it can collect the levy and pay it into the fund. It lists the businesses in scope as hotels, guest houses, serviced apartments, restaurants, drinking bars, night clubs, car rental firms, tour operators, conference and banqueting facilities, spas, cinemas and tourist sites. An operator collects for a month and then has a further 30 days to hand the money over, which is why the line appears on your bill rather than at any border.

What a stay costs with the levy applied

Take four nights in an Accra hotel at 1,500 cedis per night. The room total is 6,000 cedis and the levy on it is 60 cedis. Add three restaurant meals at 400 cedis each and the levy on those is 12 cedis. On a 7,200 cedi trip the tourism levy comes to 72 cedis, a small line next to the other statutory charges that appear on a Ghanaian folio.

What is still unclear

The authority's page does not publish a worked example or say how the levy sits alongside the other taxes on an invoice, so the exact cedi figure on your bill can differ slightly from the simple calculation above.

Sources: ghana.travel, ghana.travel.

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