Tourist tax›United States›checked 24 Oct 2026

Tourist tax in Atlanta

This is the tax inside Atlanta's own boundary. Neighbouring towns, including the ones near the airport, set their own; it follows where your accommodation is.

Today: one adult, one night
$5.00 per room per night plus 16.9% of the room price per night

Across every type of stay. Your exact stay depends on dates, star rating, children and night limits: the calculator works it out.

The next 12 months
  • $5.00 per room per night plus 16.9% of the room price per night, all year.
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Quick answers

Do children pay the tourist tax in Atlanta?

It is charged per room (or as a share of the room price), not per person, so children don't change it.

Do you pay the tourist tax for every night of a long stay in Atlanta?

Georgia state hotel fee ($5 per room per night): charged for at most 30 nights per stay.

How do you pay the tourist tax in Atlanta?

Paid at the property or to the booking site, depending on how you book.

Every rate and rule

Georgia state and local sales tax on hotel rooms (8.9%) (Georgia state and local sales and use tax (City of Atlanta, Fulton and DeKalb))

Set by Georgia Department of Revenue (4% state + local sales taxes) · 1 rate
Note: Georgia's state and local sales tax as it applies to hotel and short-term rental rooms: not a tourist tax, but added on top of the quoted room rate. Inside the Centennial Yards and South Downtown districts the rate is 3.9%.
Type of stayRate
All types of stay8.9% of the room price, per night (as the source defines it)

Paid at the property or to the booking site, depending on how you book.

Who pays less or nothing

  • Other

Source: O.C.G.A. §§ 48-8-2 and 48-8-30 (sales tax on rooms, lodgings or accommodations furnished to transients); DOR Policy Bulletin SUT-2018-02; DOR General Rate Chart effective 2026-10-01, checked 24 Oct 2026.

Georgia state hotel fee ($5 per room per night) (Georgia State Hotel-Motel Fee)

Set by Georgia Department of Revenue · 1 rate
Type of stayRate
All types of stay$5.00 per room, per night

Charged for at most 30 nights per stay. Paid at the property or to the booking site, depending on how you book.

Who pays less or nothing

  • Other: direct billing

Source: O.C.G.A. §§ 48-13-50.2, 48-13-50.3, 48-13-50.4; Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 560-13-2-.01, checked 24 Oct 2026.

Atlanta city hotel-motel tax (8%) (City of Atlanta hotel-motel excise tax)

Set by City of Atlanta · 1 rate
Type of stayRate
All types of stay8% of the room price, per night (as the source defines it)

Paid at the property or to the booking site, depending on how you book.

Source: O.C.G.A. § 48-13-51(b), as on the ordinance filed with the Georgia Department of Community Affairs; City of Atlanta Code Chapter 146, Article III (hotel or motel occupancy tax), checked 24 Oct 2026.

Checked 24 Oct 2026 · next check due by 22 Jan 2027.