Thai Tourism Ministry considers collecting tourism fees

[thailand49]

Talking about greed!  Just another idea to LINE the pockets!  these guys should be fired but of course doing so means firing their own family or good old boy network of crooks.

[Tracyb]

“They have also requested more details of the plan to use fees collected for attraction renovation and insurance benefits.“

 

So they’ll drop the requirement for Non-IMM OA insurance?

[Bundooman]

1 hour ago, inThailand said:

Great idea, raise fees when tourism is in the toilet?

 

Shouldn't we be glad they are <deleted> up the place? Less traffic, less idiot drivers, smaller queues, greater ratio of Thai females to falangs, and now even more handsome.

Good idea except.... why did you have to mention 'tourism' and 'toilet' in the same sentence?

Tomorrow's great idea will now probably be -

 

"Toilet Minister reveals plans to tax all tourist 'toilet users' to improve the image of the existing and disgusting standard of toilets in Thailand"

[Sydebolle]

Brilliant - you cannot make such stuff up. Keep up the good work and thank you for this invaluable contribution on an early Monday morning. You might just have made my entire week.

The entire hospitality infrastructure is dead, empty and having no takers. Tour buses are parked by the hundreds - indefinitely.

And the super smarts - at it again - consider a "tourism fee"! 

Well done, seriously, very very well done! 

[happyaussie]

As if insurance companies need a hand.

 

[ChipButty]

This will make it Treble pricing?

[leeneeds]

1 hour ago, alfalfa19 said:

there already is a 700 baht departure fee built into your ticket when you buy it.   clearly, that is not enough to satisfy the greedheads,  so i doubt 20 would do the trick. 

True, but the 700, does not go to the parks or insurance for tourist, for my mind make it a thousand baht connected to ticket and have a fund to cover non insured injuries that happen where medical treatment is not paid for by the patient, it would be easy to then attach such payment to any potential scammers trying to re enter the country until that bill is paid this can picked up on the biometric system.

 

[Liverpudlian]

3 hours ago, bendejo said:

 I guess after washing down Walking Street in Pattaya the question came up "now who is going to pay for it?"

Obviously a 10,000,000 baht project, at least, to pay for all those brooms. 

 

 

 

Sweeping all those broken dreams off the street sounds better.

[kiwikeith]

3 hours ago, Thechook said:

They increased the arrival and departure tax a couple of years ago to provide medical costs if a tourist was injured and tourists already get hit with dual pricing.  Tourism must be bad if they are going to hit the remaining ones even harder.

I would not mind paying 1000 BHT entry and departure extra.

If all the millions of the beloved ones, chinese mates swamp in on the new train they could pay for medical treatment in the hospitals and upgrade tourist facilities, the problem isssssss

 

Watch this space---- Bill Gates and his WHO will release a coronavirus vaccine very soon, my, my, my  corona

Who will administer the money, thats the big problem in LOS

Fingers jammed in the till ---Ouch

[saminoz]

1 hour ago, smedly said:

Thailand earns over 20% of the countries GDP from tourism, what have they been doing with it all these years

 

you buy a ticket for a plane train bus - pay a bill for taxi hotel etc - spend while here as a tourist 

 

Now they want tourists to buy ticket to enter the country lol

"they want tourists to buy ticket to enter the country lol"

Well, let's face it.  It's a whackier ride than anything you get at Disney!

It's a unique mix of reality soap show, childrens cartoon and a horror show, with the Thai road user daredevil show available 24/7

Well worth paying for!!

Edited February 10, 2020 by saminoz
typo

[faraday]

Great idea!

 

But surely they should impose an 'Expat Financial Tariff' too?

 

I must admit, I didn't envisage anything as sensible as this from the gubmint.

 

 

 

 

[Naamblar2014]

Ai Anutin next suggesting that Ai puak falang pay a mask tax.

[taninthai]

Umm don’t they already do this with extortionate national park fees????????????

[keystonecoppers2]

 

 

                         Yes, just dig your hole deeper and wider!!

                         It will soon be over!! I can hardly wait!!

[waders123]

3 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

Surely this would be more environmentally friendly, less expensive and more efficient tooperate

They have smaller/narrower sweeping/cleaning vehicles in Holland for use on the narrow streets there.  Perfect for the Soi. and tight to get places.  

[newnative]

   My first thought was I need to change my entry in the 'Most Brain-Dead Public Official in Thailand' annual contest.  My second thought was, people have posted on ThaiVisa many times  that Thais always raise prices when sales are down.  So what do we have here?  Tourist numbers (sales) are way down, so TAT has decided, let's raise prices!  Thank goodness I am using pencil with my contest form.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Sametboy2019]

if Coronavirus and Mall shootings wasnt enough to put you off. 

Now your going to be charged for the risk.

[SupermarineS6B]

Ha ha.........  "I know, what about hostage taking" ??   Ooooh, you can smell the desperation now....... Karma boys, suck it up baby....... 

[rtco]

Nuff said ...

 

[madmitch]

Visa fees

National Park dual-pricing

Entrance fees at other Government-run attractions (again, probably dual-priced)

AOT fee (700 baht)

Hotel room tax

Tax on the alleged 2 trillion baht generated by tourism

 

And now they want more! Not to mention the timing of such an announcement!

 

They really don't have a clue.

 

[PatOngo]

2 minutes ago, madmitch said:

They really don't have a clue.

Have they ever had one?

[waders123]

1 minute ago, Sametboy2019 said:

if Coronavirus and Mall shootings wasnt enough to put you off. 

Now your going to be charged for the risk.

It's like paying a cover charge to go into an attraction that has all the risks and thrills, however you might not make it back out and possibly become part of the show! Now that should get your adrenaline pumping if anything would!

[BestB]

Just when you thought could not go any lower after health minister hissy fit, another brainiac comes up with this.

 

tourist coming And spending billions , paying double is not good enough, now let’s charge them for up keep and maintenance . 

[HHTel]

Minister of Tourism and Sports is Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn.

 

His role is to promote, not to destroy.  Is there anyone in the government here who actually understands their job description.

 

Foreigner prices for entry into tourist attractions are already 2, 3, 4 times and more the local price.  Now it's being considered to introduce a fee payable by all visitors to pay the cost of cleaning.

 

It's no wonder you get a health minister handing out masks with his bare hands and not wearing a mask himself then insults any foreigner for refusing them.

 

The average IQ in Thailand is around 95 which is 5 points below normal intelligence. I'm sure that if you remove the government officials and their followers from the stat, then the average would be up.

 

The country has rich resources, strong currency and investment but is run by imbeciles.

[BestB]

Big P did not like the idea of visa fees for Chinese but no doubt will be all for taxing everyone else ????

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, bangkokfrog said:

Foreigners already pay "tourism fees" in the form of dual pricing.

it's going up a notch, next level extortion.
Tourists have to pay for the attraction they come to visit, Thailand doesn't have a budget for that kind of thing!

[SupermarineS6B]

1 hour ago, Yadon Toploy said:

This is why you don't let Thais manage anything. 

" Never put them in charge and never give them P*ss "......  Golden rule no 1........

[emptypockets]

2 hours ago, smedly said:

Thailands future tourism plan is based on the current package mentality they operate with the Chinese 

 

50+ in a group - Group A, they ship them in - bus them to a single hotel charge them BT2000+ per night - bus them to various expensive venues for eating to shows to parks all over priced - do this for 7-10 days then bus them back to the airport, they are not allowed to stray from the group or go where they like because they simply don't know any better and in bed by 10pm so they are ready for another gouging the next day - who are the people running these groups - a select powerful people making a fortune

 

Not my idea of a holiday - part of the adventure of all my vacations over the years was to plan research and explore, what they are doing with these Chinese is a bit like a Cruise Ship but without the ship - being lead about like lemmings believing that "this is how a holiday is meant to be",

 

but of course I did not come from a communist country - I was pretty much free to travel how - where and when I wanted 

 

Remember were they come from - they are well used to being herded and told what to do and for now Thailand is taking advantage of that

Except, of course, China has banned group tours.

7/10 for the rant. Try harder next time.

[colinsmallman]

How about fast track tourism. Arrive at airport, place all your money in the box, then strait to departure. 

 

Cuts out the middle man!!

[emptypockets]

1 hour ago, Yadon Toploy said:

It was manned counters at Don Mueang before the machines. 

 

I recall folk begging for 500thb in the airport as they had turned up with no money, spent everything on their holiday and forgot, or did not know to keep the purple passion voucher. In those days that was a ST or LT if she was skint.

Oh dear. The whine of the newly travelled. Hong Kong was like that four decades ago. Had to pay in cash at check in.