Tourism Dirham Fee: collection and remittance on your behalf

Do

Notify us in advance of any stay in your unit that we have not booked, including your own stays and stays by family or friends, so the occupancy can be registered correctly.
Confirm your property's classification with us if you are modelling net yield, as the Deluxe and Standard rates differ.
Refer any guest question about the fee to us — we hold the permit and the declaration record.

Don’t

Do not collect the Tourism Dirham Fee directly from a guest yourself, and do not agree to waive it.
Do not allow anyone to occupy the unit without telling us; an undeclared occupied night is a compliance breach against the permit issued for your property.

The Tourism Dirham Fee is a levy set by the Department of Economy and Tourism, DET (formerly DTCM), on every occupied night in a licensed holiday home in Dubai. As the operator holding the permit for your unit, we collect the fee from the guest, declare the stay and remit the fee to DET (formerly DTCM). You do not pay it, and it is not deducted from your rental income.

How the fee is calculated

The fee is charged per bedroom, per night, regardless of how many guests occupy the unit. The rate is the same for every Deluxe Holiday Homes property in Dubai.

Rate	Applies to
AED 10 per bedroom per night	Every Deluxe Holiday Homes property in Dubai

A studio counts as one bedroom, so a two-bedroom apartment accrues twice the nightly rate of a studio or one-bedroom.
Occupancy is irrelevant: one guest and six guests in the same unit generate the same fee.
The fee accrues per night occupied, not per booking.

Long stays: the 30-night cap

For stays of more than 30 consecutive nights, the Tourism Dirham Fee is calculated on the first 30 consecutive nights from the check-in date only. Nights 31 onwards are not charged.

Exception. The cap applies to a single continuous stay by the same guest. A new check-in starts a new 30-night count.

How we collect it from the guest

The guest books, and the Tourism Dirham Fee is disclosed as a separate line item payable on arrival, not as part of the nightly rate you receive.
At check-in we register the guest and record the stay dates against your licensed unit.
We collect the fee amount due for the stay, capped at 30 nights where applicable.
We declare the stay and remit the collected fee to DET (formerly DTCM) within the reporting cycle for the period.

Because the fee is a pass-through, it appears neither as income nor as an expense in your monthly landlord statement. Your payout is issued on the 15th of each month, or the next working day if the 15th is a non-working day, covering the previous month.

Guest check-in document validity

The guest check-in document registered with the authority is valid for a maximum period of three (3) months. It is renewable for the same period, provided the renewal is made before expiry.

If a long-staying guest's check-in document lapses before renewal, the stay is no longer correctly registered against your permit. We monitor expiry dates and renew in time; this is one reason we require accurate arrival and departure dates for every stay, including owner and guest-of-owner stays.

What this means for you

Unregistered occupancy and undeclared nights expose the holiday home permit for your unit to penalties and, on repetition, to suspension by DET (formerly DTCM). A suspended permit means the unit cannot be legally let on a short-term basis until the matter is resolved.

Questions

For a breakdown of the Tourism Dirham declared for your unit in any given month, or to confirm the rate applied to your unit, contact us on +971 (4) 392-0202 (phone or WhatsApp) or at info@deluxehomes.com. In an emergency, contact local emergency services first.

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