new fee for visiting thailand
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...and only apllied if leaving by air. No such fee if you left by land border crossing (sometimes asking 10 Baht for overtime crossing, 555). Knowing the thais this will be one possible new fee in the near future..land departure tax is coming. My bet. Another few billion Baht for the generals to finance new toys.
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Re: new fee for visiting thailand
Called airport tax. if you flew domestic you paid 30 THB if I recall well.Soriya wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 7:16 amWhen i first started going to thailand you had to pay 500 bahtto leave the country.truffledog wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 3:24 am Falang welcome..you pay me 300 baht please..you pay now. Mai pen rai...
@ 40 million tourists its 40M USD per year or 1.2 Billion Baht
Another example of Thaiconomics..less tourists coming ? Get more milk from the ones who still come.
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If you can't afford to spend 300 baht, maybe you shouldn't travel.
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The new fee is just an add-on to many already existing "farang only" taxes and as other members already mentioned it has zero benefits for us, its just the thai taxmen putting their hands into our pockets with a smile (and the teeth behind). At the end all those fees do add up, piss us of and influence our future travel decisions. Thailand needs to ATTRACT tourists and surely this new measure is not a step in the right direction to lure us back. Call it a negative promotion?Big Daikon wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 12:36 pm If you can't afford to spend 300 baht, maybe you shouldn't travel.
If you want the tourists back you should waive visa fees (as happened before), create promotions with benefit and do everything you can to be more attractive than your competitors who fihgt for the same tourist dolla. This measure shows that the decision makers have no clue about tourism.
quick math:
Loosing just 20K tourists a year (thats just 0,05% of the long term target of 40M) X 5000 Baht average expense per day X 14 days of average stay = 1.4 B lost in tourism revenue
Where is the logic in such an arrival tax? Plain stupid.
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I imagine tne average tourist won't mind. Percentages be damned.
Re: new fee for visiting thailand
Have you seen what the air departure taxes are in the UK?
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