Goa's TIME App for Airbnb Hosts: Form XI, Explained (2026)

When we wrote about Goa's Airbnb registration rules, we covered how to get registered. This is the next step, and the one that keeps showing up in Tourism Department notices: what registered hosts have to file every month.

That monthly thing is TIME. It has been around since 2024, became properly mandatory in April 2025, and in the past year the Tourism Department has sent a pre-season order, two reminders and a warning about inspections. This guide covers what it is, who has to use it, how to file, and the one detail that catches out hosts who haven't registered.

What TIME actually is

TIME stands for Tourist Information Management Enterprise. It's a module on the state's Goa Online portal where accommodation providers file a monthly statistical return, the Form XI "Statistical Proforma". The government uses the numbers to track who is visiting Goa, from where, for how long and why. When the system was made compulsory in 2025, Tourism Minister Rohan Khaunte told the Assembly it would give the state comprehensive data on tourist arrivals. He added that Goa recorded average tourism growth of 22% in 2024, with hotels full from October to December.

The important thing for hosts to understand is what TIME is not. It isn't a guest identity register, and it isn't a police or immigration filing. Tourism Director Kedar Naik said when it launched that only broad demographic details are collected, with no passports and no Aadhaar numbers. That makes it less invasive than people assume, and also means it doesn't cover your other reporting duties (more on that below).

Who has to file

Every accommodation unit registered with the Department of Tourism. The department's advisory of 30 September 2025 is addressed to "all hoteliers and accommodation units", and it names guest house owners and Airbnb hosts specifically. If you rent out a villa, an apartment, a homestay room or a B&B in Goa on any platform, Airbnb, Booking.com, MakeMyTrip or Wayzyy, this applies to you.

The most recent notice, dated 24 April 2026, went further. It reminded C and D category hotels that submissions are overdue, warned unregistered hotels and guest houses of closure and legal proceedings, and said individuals renting through Airbnb or similar platforms must register with the department. Inspection teams, it said, would check TIME submissions and licence validity across the state.

The detail most hosts missYou can't file on TIME without a tourism registration number. The first step in adding a property is entering that number and confirming an OTP on the mobile linked to it. An unregistered host can't comply even if they want to.

The deadline: the 5th, every month

Form XI for any month is due by the 5th of the following month. October's guests are due by 5 November, November's by 5 December, and so on, including months where you had no bookings at all. The TIME page states the monthly requirement has applied since 1 April 2024, and the revised Form XI has been mandatory since 1 April 2025.

The deadline is short on purpose, and it's the main reason hosts fall behind. In December you're turning over guests every few days, and the 5th of January arrives in the middle of the busiest week of the year. The hosts who handle it well fill in the four fields at check-in instead of rebuilding the month from booking emails.

What you'll be asked for

The upload is an Excel template you download from TIME. According to the Tourism Department's description when the system launched, it captures:

• Age group of each guest
• Country of origin for foreign guests, or state of residence for Indian guests
• Length of stay
• Purpose of visit

Our suggestion: keep a simple sheet with those four columns and fill a row when a guest checks in. Most guests will tell you their home state and why they're visiting in the first two minutes anyway. At month end, you paste the rows into the official template and upload.

How to file, step by step

This is the process as described on the TIME page itself. The first three steps are one-time setup. After that, it's just the monthly upload.

1. Create a Goa Online account. Register at goaonline.gov.in with your name, address, date of birth, email and mobile number, and verify with the OTP. If you registered your property online, you probably already have this login.
2. Link your property. On the TIME page, enter your Goa Tourism registration or certificate number. An OTP goes to the mobile number linked to that registration, so make sure you can receive it. If a caretaker or manager registered the property under their number, sort this out first.
3. Upload the authority letter. Download the authority letter format from the TIME page, sign it and upload it. The Tourism Department verifies the request, and you get an SMS when it's approved.
4. Each month, fill the Excel template. Go to "Statistical Proforma as per Form XI", select your property and click "Submit Form XI". Under the "Tourist Registration (Form XI)" menu, choose Upload Excel and download the format.
5. Upload, check and submit. Upload the completed file and confirm with "Upload Valid Data". Check the figures shown for the month, then click Submit for that month and year. You can upload more than once in a month, either overwriting or adding to the data already there.

Larger operators can skip the spreadsheet: TIME offers API integration with hotel booking systems, and the technical document is linked from the TIME page. For a single villa or a few rooms, the Excel route takes a few minutes a month.

What happens if you don't file

There are two consequences, and the second one is the one that bites.

Penalties. The September 2025 advisory says missed, incomplete or inaccurate submissions count as non-compliance under Rule 17 of the Goa Registration of Tourist Trade (Amendment) Rules, 2022. That can mean fines and sanctions, and persistent or wilful non-compliance can lead to suspension or cancellation of your operating licence. The April 2026 notice added that inspection teams would be checking.

Blocked renewal. Per the TIME page, a registration certificate isn't renewed unless the previous year's Form XI data has been submitted on TIME. So a host who ignored TIME for a year finds out at renewal time, with a lapsed registration, at the exact moment every platform is being told to remove listings without a valid number.

Enforcement has been uneven so far. When TIME became mandatory, Smita Patil, who runs an eco agro-tourism property, told Goemkarponn the initiative was commendable but lacked proper enforcement, and that unregistered guest houses were still outside the system altogether. The pre-season order, the two reminders and the inspection warning since then suggest the department has been working on exactly that.

TIME is not Form C

Because TIME records each foreign guest's country, it's easy to assume it also covers foreign-guest reporting. It doesn't.

Foreign nationals staying at your property must be reported to the immigration authorities through Form C within 24 hours of arrival, under the Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025. That's a separate system run by the Bureau of Immigration, with its own login, and the penalty in Goa is ₹50,000 per unreported guest. The Tourism Department's own advisory says units hosting foreign tourists must file both. We've written a separate guide on Form C for foreign guests.

A simple monthly routine

If you host in Goa, this is the whole compliance calendar for guest data, in four lines:

• At check-in: note the guest's age group, home state or country, nights booked and reason for the trip.
• Within 24 hours, foreign guests only: file Form C.
• By the 5th: upload last month's sheet to TIME and submit, even if the month was empty.
• Before renewal: check that every month of the past year shows as submitted.

If you're stuck

The TIME page lists a dedicated Form XI call centre on 8882-254-254: extension 31 for North Goa, 32 for South Goa, Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5:30 pm. You can also email tourism@goaelectronics.co.in with the subject line "Statistics Proforma as per Form XI". For anything else, Goa Tourism's 24x7 call centre is on 1364. The TIME page also links a user manual and a help video, which are worth five minutes before your first upload.

If you're not registered yet, TIME isn't your problem today. Registration is, and with the Department of Tourism quoting up to 90 days to process an application, it's worth starting now. Our Goa Host's Compliance Checklist walks through the documents and the application, and the registration rules explainer covers what changed in 2026.