{"id":1700,"date":"2023-07-09T12:40:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T19:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2023-07-13T23:02:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T06:02:36","slug":"bhutan-charges-visitor-200-per-day-each-to-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/07\/09\/bhutan-charges-visitor-200-per-day-each-to-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhutan charges visitors $200 per day, each, to visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The $200 per day visitor charge was assessed beginning in late 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the spring of 2023, they have modified the fee &#8211; still $200 per day per visitor for the first 4 days, but then up to an additional four days at no additional fee. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-xl\/news\/other\/visiting-bhutan-costs-200-a-night-unless-you-stay-for-over-4-days\/ar-AA1cW7d9\">It is a sliding scale &#8211; the longer one stays and the more fees that are paid, the more &#8216;free&#8217; days are added.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sustainable Development Fee is part of a new program that many countries are pursuing to encourage longer stays by people who spend more money. They want wealthy visitors who spend more money and stay longer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several countries have added &#8220;sustainable tourism&#8221; fees, &#8220;climatecrisis&#8221; fees, tourist impact fees &#8211; all with the same goal of restricting travel primarily to wealthier visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhutan modifies its $200 per day per visitor tourism fee. The goal is to restrict travel to, mostly, the wealthy elite while saying it&#8217;s for sustainability and the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}