The new co-payment tourism promotion programme for northern destinations in Thailand will certainly need an upgrade in terms of both the amount of subsidies from the government and number of tourists to receive them, Deputy Finance Minister Julapun Amornvivat said on Wednesday.
The total budget for this programme, Aeo Nuea Khon La Khrueng (travel to the North at half prices), will unlikely reach 24 billion baht as in the past programme because the new one will be split into five phases for continuous economic stimulus effects, he said.
He was responding to a remark by Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra who wants the tourism co-payment scheme to be expanded in both the amount of government subsidies offered and the tourist quota.
The premier found the promised maximum subsidy per tourist – at this point proposed to be 400 baht – and the quota set at 10,000 to be too small, said Tourism and Sports Minister Sorawong Thienthong on Tuesday, citing …