San Francisco voters rejected a hotel tax increase measure that would have raised the city’s hotel tax by two points to 17.5 percent, making it the highest in the nation.
San Francisco CVB President and CEO Joe D’Allesandro issued a statement praising the outcome.
“By rejecting this measure, San Francisco has avoided cancellations of upcoming conventions and millions of dollars of lost business for years to come,” he said.
Proponents of the measure contended that the money that would have been generated by the tax increases is badly needed to maintain city services.
Another hotel tax measure, one that would have required online hotel-booking search engines such as Orbitz and Expedia to collect and pay hotel taxes on the amount charged to consumers, was also rejected by voters.
