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: A 2018 report from the U.S. Travel Association indicated that overseas visitors were expected to make up around 36.7% of visitors in 2017 to national parks and monuments.

https://www.ustravel.org/sites/default/files/media_root/document/NPS_Overseas_Highlights_V1%20%281%29.pdf[/quote]

You are misinterpreting that percentage. The 36.7% represents the percentage of overseas visitors that happen to visit an NPS site during their visit. Not the percent of NPS visitors that were from overseas. That percentage is about 4% based on a total visitation in 2018 was 314 million.

As someone already said, this was mainly just typical stagecraft. But the $250 pass isn't that crazy a price if the main purpose of the trip is to visit a park. You can bring in a family of 4 with such a pass. The reason that pricing isn't as out of whack as the $100 per person charge at the 11 targeted Parks is because the pass is a multi agency one. So DOI didn't have exclusive say on what to price it at. Whereas, the per person surcharge of $100, which is way out of whack from the standard price, could be solely determined by Burgum, the DOI head. By way of example, a car load of 4 Parisians going to Yellowstone would pay just $35. Under the new rates, this quartet would have to pay $435. It probably makes sense to go with the pass in most cases, unless you are single or couple and want to visit just one Park.

EU sites by and large charge everyone the same. There is a segment of EU citizens that get a discount/free admission, and that is young adults under 26 or 25. Not exactly a sweeping discount.  [/quote]

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