Published: 20th Feb, 2020
Bhutan's “sustainable development fee” (SDF)
Ending decades of free entry to Indian tourists visiting Bhutan, the government in Thimphu has decided to levy a daily ?1,200 ($17) fee for “regional tourists” from India, the Maldives and Bangladesh, beginning July 2020.
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- Ending decades of free entry to Indian tourists visiting Bhutan, the government in Thimphu has decided to levy a daily ?1,200 ($17) fee for “regional tourists” from India, the Maldives and Bangladesh, beginning July 2020.
- The fee, called a Sustainable Development Fee (SDF), is meant to help the government deal with burgeoning numbers in tourist traffic, which it is seeking to regulate through a new tourism policy.
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