Bhutan to welcome tourists 'who can spend' for first time since Covid-19

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KATHMANDU — Bhutan will reopen for international tourists from September for the first time since the pandemic began more than two years ago, officials said on Thursday (June 30), as the tiny Himalayan kingdom looks to revive its economy.

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Wedged between China and India, the country with scenic natural beauty and ancient Buddhist culture, took drastic early steps and banned tourism, a major source of income, in March 2020 when the first Covid-19 case was detected there.

"Covid-19 has allowed us to reset — to rethink how the sector can be best structured and operated... while keeping carbon footprints low," Mr Tandi Dorji, TCB chairman and the country’s foreign minister, said in a statement. Tourism employs 50,000 people and contributed an annual average of about US$84 million in the three years before the pandemic in direct foreign exchange.

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