Thailand’s tourism sector has proposed providing tax refunds fordomestic tourists, in which each person could be given up to 20,000 bahtin tax rebates for spending related to local tourism.
The move is considered as an effort to revive the tourism industry,which generates significant annual revenues for the country, saidPresident of the Thai Tourism Council Piyaman Techapaiboon.
As the situation in the country was brought back to normal, themartial law has, however, continued to discourage many potentialtourists from visiting the country.
Touristarrivals in the first seven months of this year dropped by 10.47 percentcompared to the same period last year, as were revenues, which droppedby 8 percent.
The tax rebates and other measureswill help Thailand reach its original goal of achieving 800 billion bahtin tourism revenues and 148 million in domestic tourism trips by theend of 2014./.
The move is considered as an effort to revive the tourism industry,which generates significant annual revenues for the country, saidPresident of the Thai Tourism Council Piyaman Techapaiboon.
As the situation in the country was brought back to normal, themartial law has, however, continued to discourage many potentialtourists from visiting the country.
Touristarrivals in the first seven months of this year dropped by 10.47 percentcompared to the same period last year, as were revenues, which droppedby 8 percent.
The tax rebates and other measureswill help Thailand reach its original goal of achieving 800 billion bahtin tourism revenues and 148 million in domestic tourism trips by theend of 2014./.
