Association seeks compensation package for tour operators

[rooster59]

Association seeks compensation package for tour operators

By THE NATION

 

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha met with the Association of Thai Travel Agents (ATTA) on Thursday (April 30) to discuss measures to help operators and employees in the tourism industry, ATTA president Wichit Prakorbkosol said on Friday (May 1).

 

 

“The meeting was informal and lasted roughly one hour,” he said. “During the session, the association presented four proposals to help travel businesses affected by Covid-19 situations as follows:

 

▪︎ Consider paying compensation to employees of tourism businesses that had to close due to Covid-19 for more than three months, as it is not clear when the industry will recover. Currently the Social Security Office provides a compensation of 62 per cent of daily wages (based on a maximum Bt15,000 salary) for 90 days to employees who had to temporarily stop working.

 

▪︎ Provide additional low interest loans of Bt10 billion to tourism operators, as the Bt10 billion previously granted by the government was inadequate for affected operators nationwide.

 

▪︎ When the situation improves, domestic travel will be able to recover first, but most customers will still be affected by the economic impact. Therefore, the government should have state agencies, state enterprises and local administration offices organise meetings, seminars and similar activities through members of ATTA to promote domestic tourism and provide business to the operators.

 

▪︎ Consider lowering or waiving 7 per cent VAT for inbound and outbound tour operators.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30387157

 

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[Stargeezr]

Good luck TAT and Government, when the true situation happens, all your fabricated

numbers and forecasts will be in the garbage bin again. I hope you all lose your

careers and have to be tuk tuk drivers in your future.

Geezer

[hotchilli]

20 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha met with the Association of Thai Travel Agents (ATTA) on Thursday (April 30) to discuss measures to help operators and employees in the tourism industry, ATTA president Wichit Prakorbkosol said on Friday (May 1).

Did he put forward the idea of re-training in the construction business?

[Thailand]

International tourism is dead in the water or the time being.

Right to concentrate on the domestic side but that is not easy. Thousands of jobs still to be lost in this industry worldwide.

[bangkokfrog]

23 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The meeting was informal and lasted roughly one hour,

Lip service comes to mind in terms of Prayut's attendance at the meeting. Unfortunately the only tourists flocking back to Thailand in the medium term (other than the cheap charlie Chinese) will be those looking for another kind.

[ChipButty]

The risk of getting lockdown is going to stop people traveling when these provincial governors can make their own rules as they go along