Up, up and You Pay: Tourists to Be Slugged Extra Tax

Aussie tourists to be hit with increased exit fees

File photo Australians heading overseas will be hit with increased exit fees in a move that has incensed some travel groups and travellers alike.

Up, up and you pay: tourists to be slugged extra tax

The federal budget has hit tourists with a tax hike to travel overseas, imposing a $10 hike to exit fees.

‘Shocker’: Outrage as travellers slugged with exit fee hike

Aussies travellers heading overseas can expect to cough up a hefty exit fee after the Federal government hiked the cost of leaving Australia — a move that has left the travel industry fuming.

Outrage as Aussie travellers cop higher fees for overseas travel

‘This could really be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.’

Labor lashed for travel fee hike

Labor’s move to hike a border fee risks slapping “further pressure on price-sensitive travellers and Australia’s tourism competitiveness”, the country’s airports say.

International travellers set to be slugged (again) in budget

Increasing the passenger movement charge would mean a family of four pays $320 to leave the country, with airfares also surging.