Off-season hotel room rates may drop after GST changes

Travellers can look forward to cheaper hotel rooms, especially in off-season periods, with the GST Council granting the industry’s demand to levy tax only on the actual room rate. Under the GST regime so far, even when hotels offered rooms at a discount, tax was charged on the original published room rate, keeping hotel bills high. However, the GST Council has refused to concede to their other dem…