Many popular spots worldwide are introducing tourist fees for the first time or raising those that already exist. We take a ...

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Mount Fuji is taking another ... Many destinations are raising tourist taxes, but are they accomplishing their goal? "There is no other mountain in Japan that attracts that many people in the ...