“You are most welcome to come to Bhutan,” Prime Minister Lotay Tshering told a room full of foreign visitors, “but the visitor must take it as an educational and experiential visit.”
In Bhutan, that means handing over an extra US$200 per person, per day to enter the country, on top of its US$40 Visa. Tshering notes that the new fee, launched just before the country reopened to international visitors in September, is a keeping-up-with-the-times increase from the daily US$65 charge it…