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Thailand, a popular tourist country, will cancel the visa-free fee?

On July 7 17, Thailand, which has always been a popular tourist country for China people, decided to cancel the visa-free measures, that is, after the visa-free measures expired on August 3 1 this year, it resumed collecting tourist visa fees for foreign tourists.

After the Thai government issued the second notice on measures to extend visa-free fees, it attracted a large number of China tourists to Thailand. The original visa-free fee measures will expire on February 28, but in order to expand the tourism market, the authorities decided to extend the visa-free fee and visa-on-arrival fee for six months. Until the end of August this year, tourist visas for 22 countries and regions, including China, will continue to be free, and the fee for visas on arrival will be reduced from 2,000 baht to 1 0,000 baht.

Pompanu, deputy minister of tourism and sports, said that the six-month visa-free policy will expire in August, and the Thai government decided to cancel this visa-free charging measure. According to the current number of foreign tourists coming to Thailand, Thailand's tourism market has returned to normal.

The government canceled the visa-free charging measures, and the tourism industry was worried that the number of foreign tourists would decrease, but now the situation of foreign tourists visiting Thailand has returned to normal. Since the visa-free measures were implemented at the end of last year, the China market has caused quite a stir to the Thai tourism market. It can only be said that according to the evaluation results, visa measures to stimulate tourism are unnecessary.

However, from now on, I believe everything will go on as usual, because there is no reason to continue to implement visa-free measures. In the future, Thailand will not package itself as a low-cost tourist country, and will focus on developing high-quality foreign tourists. At the same time, measures that are more convenient for tourists will be implemented to reduce the time for foreign tourists to apply for visas and landing visa.