Thailand tourism council to allocate visitor fees

The Tourism Council of Thailand plans to allocate a tourism fund, garnered from fees collected from foreign visitors, predominantly for the improvement of the tourism sector by state agencies. The fund, according to Surawat Akaraworamat, the Vice-President of the Tourism Council, is being prepared for implementation as soon as the government greenlights the project. Three subcommittees have been working relentlessly to put the final touches to the project, which includes fee collection, fund management, and tourist insurance.

Regulations regarding the collection and disbursement of the fund were deliberated upon this month by the fund management panel. The Office of the Council of State and the Comptroller-General’s Department shared the responsibility of drafting these regulations, which are now ready to be published in the Royal Gazette, according…