Tourist Price‑Discrimination as Immigration Tool

Charging non‑resident visitors higher access fees for flagship public attractions is a low‑visibility policy lever that governments can use to raise revenue, manage peak demand, and send political signals about who is privileged in public spaces. Such surcharges are operationally simple but generate measurable effects on visitation flows, local economies, diplomatic relations, and political narratives about belonging. — If adopted more broadly, price‑discriminating visitor fees become a national governance tool that blends fiscal policy with immigration‑adjacent politics, requiring scrutiny of distributional and international effects.