National parks announce 'America-first' upcharges for foreign visitors

[Zorro]

Source: Washington Post

The National Park Service is introducing a digital annual pass that charges foreign visitors $170 more than United States residents across the federal recreation system.

According to a news release the Department of the Interior published Tuesday, an America the Beautiful pass will stay $80 for U.S. residents and cost $250 for nonresidents in 2026.

The announcement of a digital pass available through the reservation site Recreation.gov includes “America-first pricing” at some parks. Starting on Jan. 1, nonresidents without an annual pass will have to pay a $100 surcharge to enter 11 of the most-visited places in the system.

Parks that will charge the extra $100 include Acadia National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Everglades National Park, Glacier National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park and Zion National Park.

Read more: https://wapo.st/3Xm6qN4

[Deuxcents]

1. Ridiculous

[drray23]

2. Idiotic.

We are already bleeding tourism because of our behavior towards foreigners in general and Canada in particular where many tourists come from. Upcharging tourists is going to just accelerate the decline in tourism revenue.

[Bettie]

3. Oh, I get it!

They want to finish the job with regard to killing the tourism industry?

First step: Pay citizens as little as possible and make everything more expensive so that they have no disposable income.

Second Step: Make sure that no foreign visitors feel safe in the US as tourists, then upcharge them for everything to ensure that they don't want to come here.

Third Step: Sell national parks to oligarchs so they can destroy all wilderness areas in the name of whatever the fuck they want to call it.

I am not feeling positive about anything right now...and I am beginning to move toward "eat the rich" or at least teach them to throw themselves at the ground and miss...eventually one of them might fly.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

5. The interim destination of where this goes is PRIVATIZATION.

I think you're correct on the final destination, Bettie, but declining visitor numbers mean declining revenue. Some or another foghorn will start performing on FoxNews about the scandalous misappropriation of funds and waste in the parks and call on Congress to "let" business run them efficiently. Kinda like they're all over the Post Office for. Of course, those businesses will extract every possible nickel (since we no longer make pennies) from the parks and leave them way worse than they found them. It's been the program since Reagan, because of course "we" must trust business but "we" should never trust government.

[Bettie]

9. I figure those places will become

privatized playgrounds and resource stripping areas.

That way, they own it, not the United States.

A bunch of billionaires owing OUR national parks.

[groundloop]

4. Not EVERYTHING needs to be about bleeding people for as much money as possible

What a welcoming atmosphere we're showing our guests from other countries.

[Botany]

6. Economic toxicity for the areas around the parks restaurants, hotels, stores, guide services, outdoor gear ...

… rental businesses, service stations, car rental agencies, airports, airlines, ….

[maxsolomon]

7. Dang furriners overrunning the place!

As soon as a Dem is back in the WH, this pricing is gone.

It's a year pass; I don't think most furriners at NPs are buying this. Just day passes.

[Harker]

8. I smell Stephen Miller.

[Hieronymus Phact]

10. Next Up:

Enshittification of our national parks.

[Wonder Why]

11. You left off "Grand Marye-Lego" Natinonal Park in florida which charges an extraa $1M to visitors

from other countries, payable in "American Bitcoin".