BANGKOK, March 23 (Xinhua) — Thailand decided on Tuesday to extend the program of “We Travel Together” and approved a parallel tourism campaign in its latest efforts to support the pandemic-hit tourism sector.
The cabinet of ministers approved the third-phase extension of the tourism stimulus package until the end of July, which will involve a maximum of 2 million hotel rooms, compared to 1 million hotel rooms provided in the first two phases of the scheme, according to an official at the Government House, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to lack of authority.
The “We Travel Together” program was designed and unveiled in 2020 to stimulate domestic travels and consumption in order to revive the COVID-19-affected tourism sector in…