Entry fees to include insurance
published : 17 Feb 2023 at 14:18
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Mongkol Bangprapa
Thailand will provide insurance for foreign tourists when tourism fees for international arrivals start in June, the government said on Thursday.
Entry fee collection was approved by the cabinet on Tuesday for every foreigner visiting Thailand. Visitors arriving by air must pay 300 baht while international visitors arriving by land or sea will have to pay 150 baht.
The fees will not apply to holders of diplomatic or official passports, foreigners who have a work permit, children under two, day trippers or transit passengers.
Ms Traisuree said that when the fees start, Thailand will be the first country in the world to offer insurance covering accidents, death and the repatriation of bodies.
The fees will be known as Thailand traveller fees and will start on June 1.
The government expects to collect a total of 3.9 billion baht in fees in 2023. Some of the earnings will be allocated for health and accident insurance for tourists during their stay.
The Department of Health Service Support said some foreign tourists could not pay hospital bills or fully pay their bills after they received treatment in state hospitals.
Vocabulary
- diplomatic: relating to relations between countries - เกี่ยวกับการทูต
- fee: an amount of money that you pay to be allowed to do something - ค่าธรรมเนียม
- insurance: an arrangement in which you regularly pay an insurance company an amount of money so that they will give you money if something you own is damaged, lost, or stolen, or if you die or are ill or injured - การประกัน
- repatriation (noun): sending someone back to a country that is legally their own - การส่งกลับประเทศ
- transit: to move something from one place to another - ส่งผ่าน
- treatment: the process of providing medical care - การรักษา
- work permit (noun): the official permission for a foreigner to work in a country - ใบอนุญาตทำงาน
