{"id":1734,"date":"2014-07-24T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2014-07-24T12:00:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T10:00:23","slug":"thailand-gives-chinese-free-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/1734-thailand-gives-chinese-free-visa","title":{"rendered":"Thailand gives Chinese free visa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps\">The debate<\/span> existed for<span class=\"hps\">long<\/span>, Thailand <span class=\"hps\">has<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">decided<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">to waive <span class=\"hps\">visa fee<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">to visit<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">the Kingdom\u00a0<\/span>for\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"hps\">Chinese and Taiwanese<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">visitors fo<\/span><span class=\"hps\">r<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">a period of three<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">months<\/span> starting\u00a0<span class=\"hps\">from 1<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">August<\/span>\u00a0. The goal is to\u00a0<span class=\"hps\">support<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"hps\">tourism and<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">help<\/span>\u00a0it\u00a0<span class=\"hps\">recover from the imoportant<\/span><span class=\"hps\">\u00a0slowdown\u00a0caused by<\/span><span class=\"hps\">\u00a0the political<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">instability in Thailand<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/images\/lost_in_thailand_a_l.jpg\" alt=\"Lost in Thailand\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hps\">The National Council for<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">the<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">peace and order<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">of the country<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">confirmed\u00a0the decision<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">last week<\/span>&#8216;s. <span class=\"hps\">The<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">NCPO<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">agreed to<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">waive<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">visa fees<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">both Chinese and Taiwanese<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">tourists from<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">1 August to 31<\/span>\u00a0O<span class=\"hps\">ctober<\/span>, allowing <span class=\"hps\">them to save the<\/span> 1.000<span class=\"hps\">\u00a0baht<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">they would normally<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">pay<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">for a visa<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hps\">China and Taiwan<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">are the main<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">tourism markets<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">in Thailand.<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">Last year,<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">the kingdom<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">welcomed<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">4.7 million<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">Chinese tourists<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">and<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">503,157<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">Taiwanese<\/span>, <span class=\"hps\">according to the Ministry<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">of Tourism.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debate existed forlong, Thailand has decided to waive visa fee to visit the Kingdom\u00a0for\u00a0Chinese<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}