Skift Take
Thailand may have gone from being picky to rolling out the red carpet for everyone, realizing that hitting a 40-million tourist target can’t be done by courting the big spenders alone.
— Peden Doma Bhutia
After years of will they, won’t they, Thailand has finally decided to scrap the contentious proposal to impose a THB 300 ($8.20) tourism fee on international tourists arriving by air.
Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said this week that his administration would abandon the previous government’s plan.
In 2021, to revive the tourism industry, the tourism ministry proposed a THB 500 tourism fee. The head of the Tourism Authority of…
