Thai Cabinet gives green light to Bt22bil domestic tourism packages

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BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): The Cabinet on Tuesday (June 16) approved three packages to stimulate domestic tourism after the lockdown, with a whopping budget of Bt22 billion. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha has handed the task of organising the stimulus scheme to NESDB.

An employee is wearing a protective face mask and shield at Yoyo Land, an indoor amusement centre in Bangkok, Thailand, on Tuesday . Daily life in the capital resumes to normal as the government continues to ease restrictions related to running business and activities that were imposed weeks ago to combat the spread of Covid-19. Thailand reported no local transmissions of the coronavirus in the past three weeks.

Meanwhile, Health Minister Anutin Charnwirakul said that “travel bubbles” were still being negotiated to allow free exchange of tourists between Thailand and countries at low risk for Covid-19.The three domestic tourism stimulus measures will run for four months between July and October, after being drawn up by the ministries of Finance and of Tourism and Sports.

It will also fill tourists’ e-wallets with Bt600 per night for a maximum of five nights, to be used to pay for tourism activities such as spa services, souvenirs and restaurants.

 

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