{"id":549,"date":"2023-09-26T10:11:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T10:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asia.businessupturn.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2023-09-26T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T10:11:09","slug":"thai-officials-welcome-chinese-tourists-under-new-visa-free-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/southeast-asia\/thailand\/thai-officials-welcome-chinese-tourists-under-new-visa-free-program\/549\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai officials welcome Chinese tourists under new visa-free program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thai authorities warmly greeted approximately 300 Chinese tourists arriving in Bangkok on the first day of a new visa-free entry program. Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, along with the tourism minister and other VIPs, welcomed the visitors from Shanghai with gifts and photos.<\/p>\n<p>The program aims to rejuvenate Thailand\u2019s tourism industry, which was severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Thai officials plan to promote lesser-known cities as destinations for Chinese tourists to encourage longer stays and increased spending.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are confident that this policy will greatly boost the economy,\u201d Srettha told reporters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"SovrnAd Advertisement sovrn-story-feed proper-dynamic-insertion\" data-module=\"\">\n<div class=\"proper-ad-unit\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thai authorities warmly greeted approximately 300 Chinese tourists arriving in Bangkok on the first day of a new visa-free entry\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":399,"featured_media":550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[157,158],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thailand","tag-chinese-tourists","tag-visa-free"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}