Hotels & Restaurants

3.6.4.4

Hotels of one-star and above (including managed hotels and heritage hotels) approved by the Department of Tourism and other Service providers in the tourism sector registered with the Department of Tourism shall be entitled to duty credit equivalent to 5% of the foreign exchange earned by them in the preceding financial year.

Stand-alone restaurants will be entitled to duty credit equivalent to 20% of the foreign exchange earned by them in the preceding financial year.

Note: In the case of one and two star hotels and stand-alone restaurants, the foreign exchange earned through International Credit Cards and sources as may be notified only shall be taken into account for the purposes of computation of duty credit entitlement under the scheme.