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Cabinet won’t extend tour scheme

Cabinet won’t extend tour scheme

Tourism bodies to redesign campaigns

Local travel deals offered at the recent ‘Thai Tiew Thai’ fair. Somchai Poomlard

The cabinet has turned down a proposal from the Tourism and Sports Ministry to extend the fraud-plagued Rao Tiew Duay Kan (We Travel Together) scheme scheduled to end on April 30.

Instead, the Tourism and Sports Ministry and Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) were instructed to redesign the programme in order to prevent fraudulent practices or invent new campaigns to stimulate domestic tourism, said Anucha Burapachaisri, the government spokesman.

Launched on July 15, 2020, the domestic tourism stimulus policy is part of the government’s effort to spur domestic travel, as foreign tourists are still…

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