Tourism Minister orders transfer of “Half-Half Thai Travel” registration to be done via government app
Tourism Minister orders move of registration for “Travel Thailand Half Each” to be done via government app today. Those who have already registered will not be affected.
4 Jul 68 Mr. Surawong Thienthong, Minister of Tourism and Sports Said on a television program: Preparing to close registration via the website "Travel Thailand Half Each" and the app "Amazing Thailand" today.
It will be moved to register via the "Tang Rat" app instead, after there were problems with the registration and login system since the project launched on July 1st due to the problem of identity verification via ThaiID.
The system is currently quite confusing for both business owners and the public. Therefore, today we may request to close the website. www.เที่ยวไทยคนละครึ่ง.com and the Amazing Thailand application to fix it and may use the "government" application to verify identity because the government application already has identity verification, which will make the registration process faster.
“I think it will be closed today. I will have the TAT make media and announce to the public. Those who have just registered will not be able to register yet, but it will not affect those who have already registered and are booking accommodation. I am trying my best to make everything transparent. I admit that in the past, the TAT still had lawsuits from the previous half-price travel project, more than 1 cases. Therefore, this time, the registration is complicated because everyone wants to protect themselves. As the minister, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the public. I will try to fix it as soon as possible because the information must be transferred to the government app.” Mr. Surawong said
Mr. Surawong said that There are currently about 1.4 million people who have access to the booking system, but only about 2 people have successfully used the booking rights. This time, the Half-Half Thailand project will be different from the previous one. Registration is registration to request the right, but the 5 rights will be used and expired only when the hotel is booked and paid.
The reason for creating a new application for registration is because the original project that was done in all 5 phases, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) did not have a database of tourists or customers at all because the last time they used the Paotang application of Krung Thai Bank. Therefore, TAT needs to create a new application to collect data from Thai tourists and will use it in future projects.
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