It's a tourist tax. We have enough tourists. We shouldn't be looking to increase the numbers. We should be looking to generate more revenue from the same amount.
Correct, in effect charge everyone who stays in a hotel €2 per night (as an example). It's quite common in other countries.
Not everyone who stays in paying accommodation is a tourist.
Most parts of the country don't have nearly enough tourists, The tourism sector in my neck of the woods is a pale shadow of what it was 30 years ago for example.
This isn't about supports though. It's about a proposal to levy yet another tax on tourist and other accommodation in large parts of the country that have insufficient tourism and insufficient accommodation, on the mistaken assumption that these "have enough tourists" and "we shouldn't be looking to increase the numbers".
We collect the tax from all parts of the country and redirect the money raised to areas which require it most. At the moment there are subsidies on all hotels in the country which are being paid for through taxation elsewhere in the economy. We have plenty of tourists but they are concentrated in a smallish number of locations throughout the country. Taxation can be used as a tool to encourage a more even spread. Ideally we'd have an efficient State sector and just less taxes but that's a different discussion.
It's a daft idea and collection costs would be very high relative to what would be yield. €2 on every B&B bill is hardly worth the effort to collect and remit.
You won't do that by taxing low-demand areas on the basis that they "have enough tourists".
Taxes are rarely imposed in isolation. If the tax is used to gather revenue from the entire country and redirect it to areas where it is needed most then it will increase tourism in those areas in question. There are around 150,000 hotel beds in the country so assuming full capacity with a €2 per room charge on the entire country raises around €300,000 a day. That money can be redirected to the smaller number of hotel beds in the under utilised areas of the country so they have a net gain (they get more out than the €2 a day they pay in). We'll be subsidising the BMW region anyway, and rightly so, so I'd rather see the money raised that way than increased taxes on labour.