Several hotels today rejected a proposal to formalize dual-pricing at hotels as discriminatory and counterproductive.
After the Tourism and Sports Ministry announced it would encourage hotels nationwide to charge foreign nationals higher rates, three hotel representatives today dismissed the proposal as unhelpful and unfair.
“Personally, I don’t see how this would help,” Anchalee Sriwongsa, spokesperson for Outrigger Resorts, told Coconuts. “The tourism sector should be a globalized thing. I don’t see how it’s fair that Thais should have to pay lower rates as opposed to foreigners. Foreigners have a lot to pay already in terms of travel expenses.”
On Wednesday, the ministry said it would ask hotels to raise rates for foreign visitors to the level they were before COVID-19 decimated the industry while providing discounts to Thai guests.
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