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BANGKOK (NNT) - Gov’t expects distribution of 15.5bn baht to tourism sector in new campaign

 

The government has introduced a new domestic tourism promotion campaign, offering subsidies on the price of individual tour packages. This campaign is expected to help distribute at least 15.5 billion baht in income among tourism-related businesses.

 

The government has announced a new domestic tourism campaign, called “Tour Thiaw Thai”, to help the tourism sector suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic, while promoting inter-provincial travel and income distribution to local communities.

 

Government Spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri said the new campaign will offer a 40% subsidy on the price of a tour package, with the subsidy capped at 5,000 baht per person per booking.

 

This subsidy is offered to Thai nationals, who need to sign up for the campaign starting in May. Eligible packages must be at least 3-day, 2-nights, must be booked via licensed tour agencies and must take place outside the traveler’s province of residence.

 

Mr. Anucha said this campaign is expected to help tour agencies, transport providers, restaurants and tourism attractions generate no less than 12.5 billion baht in revenue and indirectly inject 3 billion baht into local economies.

 

The Tour Thiaw Thai campaign will be in addition to the government’s current domestic tourism promotion campaigns, such as the We Travel Together campaign, which offers subsidies for hotel stays and flights. The government has recently approved an additional 2 million registrations for the We Travel Together in its Phase 3 extension.

 

NOTE: I need to remove the last paragraph as the data seems severely outdated. Latest GCI data can be found here https://covid19.pemandu.org/Thailand.html, while the No.1 claim was reported in July last year.

 

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that program is explicitly forcing travellers to travel to the other provinces, thus spreading virus.

domestic tourism can be done within province, good enough for a short brake

As I remember the first part of travel together program there are 10bln bogus claims. That's why the second phase was suspended and the third is postponed until May.

Each of those grandiose projects are siphoning emergency money through the ministries.

This money should be directed directly to the poor, for example through cheap food program, not to those, who can afford holidays and travel

13 hours ago, rooster59 said:

This subsidy is offered to Thai nationals, who need to sign up for the campaign starting in May. Eligible packages must be at least 3-day, 2-nights, must be booked via licensed tour agencies and must take place outside the traveler’s province of residence.

Unfortunately the Thai national's chauffeur is a farang.  No discount for the chauffeur, no Tour Tiaow Thai in the Connda household. 

11 hours ago, internationalism said:

that program is explicitly forcing travellers to travel to the other provinces, thus spreading virus.

One of two things are going to happen:  Cases will explode with Thais dying left, right, and center, or a lot of people take a nice tour and go home.   I'm betting on the latter.