The Tourism and Sports Ministry floated an idea to establish a tourism court to increase confidence by expediting the judicial process for visitors.
Recent reports of robbery and crime against foreign tourists concerned Somsak Pureesrisak, tourism and sports minister.
He suggested Thailand establish a tourism court to directly handle tourism cases.
The ministry must receive support from related organisations such as the Royal Thai Police and the Justice Ministry. Setting up a tourism court would be complicated and requires amending existing regulations or passing a new law, he said.
The Tourism and Sports Ministry will ask the Justice Ministry to extend its working hours for a night court for tourism-related cases, in order to speed up the legal process. A new department under the Justice Ministry would handle tourism court cases.
Many countries including Singapore have tourism courts, said Mr Somsak.
Piyaman Techapaiboon, president of the Tourism Council of Thailand (TCT), said the idea was good but setting up a tourism court might not be easy.
"Until we have a tourism court, I think the ministry should find ways to support other agencies accelerating the lengthy legal process here," said Ms Piyaman.
Last year, tourist police received 1,938 complaints, down 5.96% year-on-year, while the number of arrests and prosecutions stood at 3,805 cases, up 50.6% from 2,527 cases in 2011.
The biggest share of law violations and arrests was related to immigration, which numbered 1,436 cases, rising by 1,067% from 123 cases in 2011. Second was unrest and snatching at 830 cases, down 11.9%, followed by illegal immigration with 455 cases, up 42%.
Mr Somsak said the ministry is confident it will achieve its target of 24 million tourist arrivals this year. However, spending per head for foreign tourists will eventually decline due to economic problems in their home countries.