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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Amelia Neath

New daily fee for cruise passengers introduced in Iceland to even out tourism industry competition

The fee will be around £14 per person per day, reports say - (Getty Images)

Icelandic authorities have introduced a new fee for cruise passengers of around £14 a day in aid of levelling out competition amongst tourism companies and to generate revenue for the government.

The law, approved in June last year, would see an “infrastructure fee” paid by each passenger on board an international cruise ship while the ship is anchored in a port in the country or customs territory.

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