{"id":627674,"date":"2026-09-17T17:10:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/627674\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T17:10:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:10:35","slug":"southeast-asias-third-largest-economy-eyes-600m-tourism-boost-with-domestic-travel-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/627674\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Asia’s third largest economy eyes $600M tourism boost with domestic travel subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thailand is targeting more than 20 billion baht (US$601 million) in additional tourism spending through a domestic travel stimulus.\t<\/p>\n

The government plans to spend about 4 billion baht to subsidize hotel stays and other tourism expenses, Tourism and Sports Minister Surasak Phancharoenworakul said as cited by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

The package, covering one million entitlements, is expected to be submitted to the Cabinet on Sept. 22, Bangkok Post reported.<\/p>\n

The measure reflects Thailand’s growing reliance on domestic travelers to support tourism, a major source of jobs and foreign exchange for Thailand.<\/p>\n

\"Tourists<\/p>\n

Tourists visit the Grand Palace, one of the top tourist attraction spots in Bangkok, Thailand, Jan. 7, 2023. Photo by Reuters<\/p>\n

Thailand received 21.7 million foreign tourists through Sept. 12, down 3.4% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n

Their spending fell 1.9% to 1.06 trillion baht.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thailand is targeting more than 20 billion baht (US$601 million) in additional tourism spending through a domestic travel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60,17759],"class_list":["post-627674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-southeast-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}