BANGKOK, March 9 (TNA) – The president of the Association of Domestic Travel said tour firms welcomed the government’s new tourism promotion scheme, Tour Tiaw Thai, that will offer 5,000-baht handouts for people to use tour guide services.

ADT president Thanaphol Cheewaratanaporn said that under the scheme the government would subsidize 40% of tour guide service fees, limited at 5,000 baht per tourist aged 18 and over, to stimulate domestic tourism.

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