The cabinet on Tuesday approved three categories of unlicensed hotels to participate in the We Travel Together tourism stimulus campaign. (Photo by Dusida Worrachaddejchai)The cabinet on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for unlicensed hotels to join the We Travel Together tourism stimulus campaign and for expanded subsidies on services or goods bought by travellers during four working days (Monday-Thursday). According to data from the Tourism Authority of Thailand, 6,000 registered hotels joined the scheme. The number of hotels in Thailand is much larger, with at least 800,000 rooms operating legally and 1 million illegally. Gen Prayut threatened on Tuesday to blacklist hotels that cash in on the state tourism stimulus scheme to unfairly raise their room rates.

Source: Bangkok Post July 21, 2020 23:14 UTC