New Boston hotel fee touted as tourism transfusion

Boston hospitality leaders are celebrating the state’s creation of a tourism marketing district that will allow hotels to impose a 1.5% guest surcharge to replenish their struggling industry. The assessment could boost the city’s $7.5 million tourism fund in 2019 to $40 million if and when occupancy returns to pre-pandemic levels, said Martha Sheridan of the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau.