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A booking website for your holiday home in Haute-Garonne

From Toulouse to the Luchon valley: where to declare the tourist tax, who can help you, and what the season changes for a holiday home that wants its bookings direct.

Letting in Haute-Garonne

Haute-Garonne lets all year round, but not in the same way everywhere. According to the tourism portrait the département published in 2024, Toulouse Métropole holds 60% of the homes listed on Airbnb and Abritel, for short stays: 3.3 days on average in 2023. In the south, the Comminges and the Luchon valley live by the mountain, with skiing at Peyragudes, Luchon-Superbagnères, Bourg-d'Oueil and Le Mourtis, and walking in summer: the GR86 runs from Toulouse to Bagnères-de-Luchon.

Visitor numbers peak in August and are lowest in January, without stopping in between. The same document counts, in 2023, 2,840 furnished holiday lets and 380 B&Bs in the département, 366 of them under the Gîtes de France label. The Canal du Midi crosses the Lauragais, and four Grands Sites Occitanie are in Haute-Garonne: Toulouse, Bagnères-de-Luchon, Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges and Valcabrère, Revel and Avignonet-Lauragais.

The tourist tax in Haute-Garonne

It is set and collected by your commune or intercommunality, each with its own filing platform: there is no single one for the département. Since 1 January 2023, the departmental council adds a 10% surcharge, voted on 28 June 2022, on top of your commune's rate.

In the 37 communes of Toulouse Métropole, returns and payments are made online every calendar quarter, before 30 April, 31 July, 31 October and 31 January. The Métropole says it plainly: if you let directly, or if the platform does not collect the tax, the return is yours to file on its portal. In the Comminges, the service is run by the Destination Comminges Pyrénées tourist office: returns are monthly, before the 15th, and payment is in three instalments. Its 2026 notice also mentions a 34% regional surcharge.

This is the point not to forget when you go direct: the platform collects the tax on nights booked through it, but your direct bookings are yours to declare. Your website works out the tax on each booking and adds it up, so the total to declare is already there.

Who can help you

Haute-Garonne Tourisme, the departmental tourism board, has a professional area for hosts: labels, selling, and the 1-to-5-star classification visits for furnished holiday lets, which it carries out itself. Classification changes how the tourist tax is worked out and how you are taxed: worth a look before you open.

The Gîtes de France® Haute-Garonne relay, an association, shares the board's address, 14 rue Bayard in Toulouse, and Haute-Garonne Tourisme supports the network. A labelled holiday home can have its own website as well: calendars sync through an iCal link when the relay provides one, and your contract with the relay is worth checking.

What a booking website changes here

Around Toulouse, stays are short: the commission is paid on every stay, which is where it weighs most. A happy guest who comes back can book with you directly next time, and your website writes to them after they leave to ask for a review.

In the mountains, winter and summer do not sell at the same price. Your seasonal rates are set in your area, and your website reads your platforms' calendars every 30 minutes to close dates already taken elsewhere.

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Sources

Information read on 13 October 2026 on the official pages cited. Decisions, rates and addresses change: check with your commune or intercommunality before declaring. Spotted a mistake? Write to us and we will correct it.

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