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Skift @ Skift · 03/22/2023 08:00 EDT

Bhutan Offers Duty-Free Gold to Offset Tourism Fee Impact

Bhutan is looking for the Midas touch for its tourism, quite literally. But will that make price-sensitive tourists disregard the otherwise high tourism fees? -Peden Doma Bhutia

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