{"id":768,"date":"2021-12-09T00:52:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T00:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedhaka\/?page_id=768"},"modified":"2023-06-13T09:39:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T09:39:40","slug":"visit-bhutan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedhaka\/visit-bhutan\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit Bhutan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IrzOUYgt0_E\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bhutan opened to the international visitors in 1974 to share its unique spiritual, cultural and natural heritage. As a country emerging out of isolation, tourism was recognized as a potential driver of socioeconomic development while generating valuable foreign exchange which can be used to finance development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since 1974 Bhutanese tourism was guided by the policy of \u2018High value, Low volume\u2019 with the government actively engaged in managing visitors through the implementation of a prepaid pricing and payment system with a minimum daily rate that covers an all-inclusive package. This policy ensures a balance between economic returns and non-material gains such as preservation of the environment and culture with arrivals guided by the carrying capacities of the various services to ensure wellness and wellbeing of the visitors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All information on tourism in Bhutan will be available on <a href=\"https:\/\/bhutan.travel\/\">https:\/\/bhutan.travel\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhutan opened to the international visitors in 1974 to share its unique spiritual, cultural and natural heritage. As a country emerging out of isolation, tourism was recognized as a potential driver of socioeconomic development while generating valuable foreign exchange which can be used to finance development.\u00a0 Since 1974 Bhutanese tourism was guided by the policy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedhaka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedhaka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedhaka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedhaka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedhaka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedhaka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedhaka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/768\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedhaka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}