News Forum - Ministry seeks 1billion baht tourism budget for new routes

[Thaiger]

The Ministry of Tourism and Sports plans to request a 1 billion baht budget from the central emergency reserve fund to develop new tourism routes linking major cities to 55 notable destinations in a move to establish long-term tourism strategies. The proposed budget aims not only to organise events but to also develop new tourism … …

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[AussieBob]

LOL - TAT wants even more money - talk about a bottomless pit. Waste of money IMO giving it to an organisation that counts border walkers from Malaysia, Laos and Cambodia as 'tourists'. So far this year there has been, according to TAT, almost 3 Million tourists from Malaysia and they each spent $50K Baht on each visit - what a load of total khrapp.  If things were as great as TAT claims due to the number of tourists they count (to earn their bonuses), then why is the economy so bad??  TAT is the biggest scam in Thailand - and that says a lot.