The Minister of Tourism and Sports, Ms Sudawan Wang-Suphakitkosol, on Thursday, gave a commitment that the government’s incoming tourist fee scheme, which will provide automatic insurance to all tourists entering the country for a 30 day period after their arrival at immigration checkpoints would be implemented by the current government.
Tourism fee or levy is a long-running story of a proposal that has managed to elude implementation by successive governments over the last two decades. …
The plan to have this fee collected by airlines transporting incoming passengers was reportedly met with behind-the-scenes pushback from the airline industry and is also thought to have damaged relations and confidence between the government by powerful large carriers who make decisions that impact Thailand’s international flight connectivity.
The new system for the proposed tourism fee…
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