Bhutan reopens every two and a half years, and visitors charge an extra $200 per night. Will it scare away tourists?

This will definitely scare away tourists. After seeing the regulations issued by Bhutan, many tourists said that they had completely lost their desire to travel to Bhutan. This is because if you want to travel to Bhutan now, you have to pay $200 a night. For this fee, the official call it sustainable development fee. In fact, Bhutan has collected this fee since before, and now it has risen to 200 US dollars. In the past, it was not only $65 per night, but now it has been greatly increased to $200, in order to minimize the environmental damage caused by tourists to Bhutan.

The reason is that the $200 Bhutan collects from tourists is used to safeguard the environment and resources of the whole country. Why do tourists have to pay the bill? It is because they think that tourists visiting their country will inevitably cause damage to the local environment and natural and cultural landscape in the process. At this time, every tourist has to pay a certain fee for the follow-up maintenance of these environmental and cultural landscapes. Bhutanese officials think this regulation is very reasonable, but they think it is very friendly to tourists.

But in fact, in my opinion, after Bhutan introduced this policy, it will scare away tourists. After all, paying $200 a night is equivalent to RMB 1.500 yuan, which means you need to pay 1.500 yuan for one more day here. Money must be paid whether it is spent or not. For tourists, this is equivalent to invisibly increasing their expenses in the process of traveling.

If you are not particularly rich or very yearning for Bhutan, then many tourists may no longer list Bhutan as a tourist destination. Therefore, in my opinion, this policy introduced by Bhutan is actually unfriendly to its overall follow-up tourism economic development.