Bangkok.
From June onwards, visitors to Thailand will have to pay an entry fee. The amount depends on the means of travel. Some visitors are even exempt from this.
Thailand will levy an entry fee for tourists for the first time from June. Those who reach the Southeast Asian country by air then have to pay 300 Thai baht (8 euros), the newspaper reported “Bangkok Post” citing Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn.
The measure, which has been discussed for a long time, was decided at a cabinet meeting. If you enter by ship or by land, you pay 150 baht (4 euros). Only visitors who do not stay overnight in Thailand are exempt from the fee.
The government expects to earn about 3.9 billion baht from the tourist tax this year, it said. A portion of the proceeds will be used to provide guests with health and accident insurance coverage during their stay. “The entrance fee will help supply the tourists,” Ratchakitprakarn said.
Representatives of the tourism sector had resisted the project for a long time. After the corona pandemic and the end of travel restrictions, masses of holidaymakers are streaming to Thailand again for the first time. (dpa)
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