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11 Jan 2023 03:20PM
(Updated: 11 Jan 2023 03:20PM)
BANGKOK: Thailand plans to start collecting a 300 baht (US$9) fee from foreign tourists arriving in the country beginning in June, with the money raised to support visitors involved in accidents and develop tourist destinations
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/tha...ne-3197886
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Singapore should also follow such ideas. But to make it right for us, we should slap a fee if people only transit and never stay to tour Singapore.
For those that tour or stay in sgyfor 3 days or more, we then give them some incentives, eg discounted SIA flights to their next destination.
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(11-01-2023, 04:12 PM)Sticw Wrote: Singapore should also follow such ideas. But to make it right for us, we should slap a fee if people only transit and never stay to tour Singapore. For those that tour or stay in sgyfor 3 days or more, we then give them some incentives, eg discounted SIA flights to their next destination.
I think PAP will only charge sinkees a big fee for going overseas for holidays. Just like casinos.
PAP will never make things difficult for foreigners.
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at least the Thai Govt got a valid reason also in fact A LOT tourist don't mind either partly once you holiday inside Thailand , at least beer, cigarettes, street hawker foods , even Hotel foods STILL cheaper than holiday in SG.
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