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"Bhutan charges an entry fee per day to visit the country. Venice, of course, is probably the most famous one with €5 for day trippers," she says.

Decades on, she welcomes day trippers from Xiamen at her shop.

"There are a lot of day trippers but no one is stopping."

Last year the city introduced an entrance fee for day trippers on peak dates.

Some locals have wondered whether a ferry service could be launched, to deliver day trippers from Santa Monica Pier to Malibu Pier — an alternative that the city tried during a major landslide decades ago.