What does Guerrero, Mexico, ask of people who rent homes to tourists?
If you manage vacation rentals in Guerrero, the rule you'll feel most is the lodging tax: El Contribuyente's table puts it at 4% in general and 5% when the booking comes through a digital platform. We didn't find a state law creating a host register or a cap on nights, the way Oaxaca has one. Upbridge's AI operations assistant, Cleo, works over WhatsApp with vacation rental operators and cleaning companies and organizes the cleanings and the inventory for each place.
The rules here
Here's what we found as of September 25, 2026, and what we looked for and didn't find.
| Topic | What it says | Status | Since | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lodging tax | El Contribuyente lists 4% in general and 5% for stays booked through digital platforms, paid within the first 17 days of the following month. Vezpa's table from April 2026 says 3%. The two don't agree and neither one is the text of the law, so check it with your accountant. | In force | Not dated in the source | El Contribuyente and Vezpa |
| Host registration | We found no Guerrero law requiring you to register homes you rent to tourists. There's a national tourism register and a state one, and in October 2025 the state tourism department handed registrations in both to Mundo Imperial's Pierre, Princess and Palacio hotels in Acapulco. That announcement only mentions hotels and restaurants. | No specific law | October 17, 2025 | Government of Guerrero |
| Night or property caps | We didn't find a yearly limit on nights, or on homes per host, in state law either. | No specific law | Checked September 25, 2026 | Our own search |
Even without a state rental law, the tax the SAT has the platforms withhold still applies here, and we explain it on our page for all of Mexico.
This is not legal or tax advice, and Upbridge does not file anything for you: no registrations and no tax returns.
How it works on the ground
Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo's airport went from 674,660 passengers in 2024 to 733,616 in 2025, up 8.7%, according to the operator OMA's figures as listed on Wikipedia. More of your guests on that stretch of coast are flying in, which means you can plan each check-in around a flight time.
The airport's busiest international route in 2025 was Los Angeles, with 31,937 passengers, followed by Calgary and Dallas. Los Angeles and Houston fly year-round, and Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Calgary are seasonal. So a good share of your guests will probably be reading the house instructions in English.
Because the tax rate depends on whether a booking came through a platform or directly, you'll want to know, house by house, where each stay came from.
Where Upbridge fits
For guests coming from the US and Canada, we build a guest guide for each house in English and Spanish, with how to get there from the airport and how to get in. They can open it on their phone as soon as they land.
To keep every stay in view, we connect Guesty, Hostaway, Lodgify or Uplisting, or import each house's iCal, so bookings from every platform end up in one calendar. Every checkout creates its cleaning task, with its own photo checklist.
If you manage vacation rentals or run a cleaning company in Guerrero, Upbridge can help you coordinate everything from the moment one guest lands in Zihuatanejo to the moment the next one finds the house ready.
If you run a cleaning company in Guerrero
The seasonal flights from Canada can change the pace of your week in Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo, because the months they run are when your check-ins and checkouts are most likely to pile up. With the account for cleaning companies, you see all your clients' homes in one calendar, each from its own iCal or system, and we don't take a cut of your jobs.
Cities and areas
Acapulco
It has its own page, because there the story of rentals splits into before and after Hurricane Otis, and that page covers how the port has come back since.
Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo
The airport handled 733,616 passengers in 2025, and its busiest domestic route was Mexico City, with 144,023 passengers, per Wikipedia's figures from OMA.
Taxco
Its page covers what the work looks like in a town where guests stay two nights and one in three comes from Mexico City.
Questions about running rentals in Guerrero
What's the lodging tax in Guerrero?
El Contribuyente lists 4% in general and 5% for bookings through digital platforms. Vezpa, in April 2026, says 3%. Since the sources disagree, check it with your accountant.
Does Guerrero have a host register like Oaxaca's?
We didn't find one as of September 25, 2026. The national and state tourism registers exist, but the state tourism department's October 2025 announcement only mentions them for hotels.
How many passengers does Zihuatanejo's airport handle?
733,616 in 2025, up from 674,660 in 2024, according to OMA's figures as listed on Wikipedia.
Sources
Checked on September 25, 2026
- El Contribuyente, “Impuesto Sobre Hospedaje” (state-by-state table), accessed September 25, 2026; the one that splits 4% general from 5% for platforms.
- Vezpa, “Impuesto Sobre Hospedaje (ISH) 2026: guía completa por estado”, April 19, 2026; the table that puts Guerrero at 3%.
- Government of the State of Guerrero, “SECTUR fortalece y reconoce los servicios turísticos en la entidad”, October 17, 2025.
- Wikipedia, “Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo International Airport” (OMA statistics), accessed September 25, 2026.