International tourists planning to visit Thailand need not worry about the proposed tourism fee the country had intended to instate, as now, the fee has been scrapped.
According to Travel News, the fee was meant to be implemented from 1 June 2024, after several postponements.
The BHT300 (R147) fee has now been ditched altogether, reports say, in a bid to help tourism recover in the nation.
“The fee… was abandoned with the rationale that its elimination could encourage higher tourist spending in other areas, thereby providing a more substantial boost to the economy,” Thailand’s Government Public Relations Department said.
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