All 2,157 hotels and their partner hospitals or Covid-19 test centres have been asked to voluntarily refund the second RT-PCR test and room booking on the fifth day to tourists or convert it into credits as the government insisted that it will not mandate operators to pay back those advance payments.
Meanwhile, the government pledged not to make any immediate change that will add more burden to the private sector when relaxing travel rules in the future.
Siripakorn Cheawsamoot, deputy governor for…