Thailand plans to offer more incentives to boost domestic tourism.
It had launched the ‘We Travel Together’ programme which offers subsidised hotel accommodation at 40% off but take up of it has apparently been lower than expected.
According to the Tourism Authority of Thailand, only about 10,000 people a day have been using it.
It will now be expanded to businesses, so they can offer it to employees for business travel purposes or as employee or business partner incentives, TAT Governor Yuthasak Supasorn said.
The maximum length of subsidised hotel stays has been increased from five to ten nights, and the airfare subsidy has been doubled to THB2,000.
Domestic tourism right now is key as TAT estimates the number of foreign tourist arrivals next year could be as low as 15% of 2019’s record total.
Written by Ray Montgomery, Asia Pacific editor
