{"id":8231,"date":"2021-04-06T23:25:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T21:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/?p=8231"},"modified":"2021-04-06T23:25:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T21:25:34","slug":"how-to-pay-the-new-cancun-tourist-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/destinations\/mexico\/how-to-pay-the-new-cancun-tourist-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Pay the New Cancun Tourist Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last April 1rst the new tourist tax came into force, But what is this about? Well, this fee is for &#8220;Right to Use Public Domain Assets&#8221; that\u2019s what government authorities have announced. The new fee called Visitax will cost <strong>11 USD<\/strong> ( 224 MXN) per visitor and must be paid before you leave the state, which is before boarding your departure flight.<\/p>\n<p>This rate is required only for people over <strong>15 years old<\/strong>, children under 14 years old are exempt from payment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Pay the new tourist tax online<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You need to go to the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitax.gob.mx\/sitio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Visitax<\/a> website, and set up the following information:<br \/>\n1.The date you will be departing Cancun<br \/>\n2.How many people are in your party<br \/>\n3.First and last name of each person in your party<br \/>\n4.Birthdate of each person in your party<br \/>\n5.Passport number<\/p>\n<p>Once visitors have filled out the form, they will be redirected to a secure payment page to complete the online payment which can be made by credit card.<\/p>\n<p>Once payment is completed, travelers will be provided with a QR Code that will need to be presented to airport security before boarding their departure flight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More options to pay the new tax<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the government, you can also pay in cash at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancuniairport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cancun Airport<\/a>, there are electronic terminals located at the International Airport. So visitors can make a cash payment prior to their arrival or on the departure flight.<br \/>\nIt is so important to do it because it will be requested by security staff. They will assist you in case of any trouble you might have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last April 1rst the new tourist tax came into force, But what is this about? Well, this fee is for &#8220;Right to Use Public Domain Assets&#8221; that\u2019s what government authorities have announced. The new fee called Visitax will cost 11 USD ( 224 MXN) per visitor and must be paid before you leave the state, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3123],"tags":[5578,5592,3778,5591,5576],"class_list":["post-8231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mexico","tag-cancun-airport","tag-cancun-tax","tag-riviera-maya","tag-tourist-tax-cancun","tag-visitax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}