It’s now cheaper to visit Bhutan !

Bhutan is offering a 50 discount on the daily tax levied on dollar paying visitors. It’s now USD 100 a day instead of USD 200, starting September 1. This will continue for the next four years until August end 2027.
This was done to hasten recovery of the tourism industry that was decimated by the covid 19 pandemic. When Bhutan reopened in September 2022 it came with a huge hike in the daily tax, from USD 65 a day to USD 200 a day, to reinforce the ‘high value low volume’ tourism policy, much to the shock of industry players, who were instead expecting concessions to boost recovery.
Since then, the government has introduced numerous other incentives to encourage visitors including sale of duty free gold and allowing budget hotels to operate.
In the past 15 months since reopening more than 83,000 tourists have visited Bhutan with close to 60,000 visitors from neighbouring India who pay 1200 Indian Rupees (USD 15 approx.) as daily tax.
The recent change in the daily dollar tax, known as the sustainable development fee (SDF), is expected to boost overseas visitors in the 2024 spring season, which begins in March. Next year is being billed as the ‘year of Asian travel’ with a focus on well-being and transformative travel. Visit Bhutan through us to feel good and transformed!