{"id":32358,"date":"2017-10-20T08:01:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T05:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/novosti\/v-tailande-nachali-borby-s-nedobrosovestnymi-ota.html"},"modified":"2017-10-20T08:01:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T05:01:02","slug":"v-tailande-nachali-borby-s-nedobrosovestnymi-ota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/novosti\/v-tailande-nachali-borby-s-nedobrosovestnymi-ota","title":{"rendered":"Thailand has begun a fight against unscrupulous OTAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>Thailand&#039;s Chiang Mai province has launched a crackdown on online operators selling tours at reduced prices, the Tourism Authority of Thailand reports.<\/strong><strong>d<\/strong><strong> (TAT). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21bb780cc182016c178b0510960950ca.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLast week, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) held meetings with local authorities and tourism industry representatives. <!--more-->Chiang Mai province, during which the discussion focused on ways to combat online operators selling tours at reduced prices, including on the Chinese market.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe rise of independent travellers who prefer to create their own itineraries and trips makes online platforms vulnerable to the actions of unscrupulous operators who ultimately create unfair conditions in the market,\u201d he said. <strong>Mr. Santi Chudintra, Deputy Head of TAT International Marketing, Asia and South Pacific<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\nTAT management also invited the Online Tourism Club of Thailand to share their first-hand experiences and tell their colleagues how the company successfully dealt with the same issues in Bangkok and Pattaya.<\/p>\n<p>\nFounded in January 2017, the Online Travel Club of Thailand has 44 members representing tour and entertainment operators across the country. The club creates standard rates and an atmosphere of parity between all members of the association.<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;Chiang Mai tour operators and attractions have agreed to follow the Online Tourism Club of Thailand&#039;s practice to resolve the issue,&quot; Mr Santi said.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn 2016, Chiang Mai welcomed 2.8 million international tourists, including 900,000 travelers from China.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trn-news.ru\/news\/64777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trn-news.ru<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand&#039;s Chiang Mai province has launched a crackdown on online operators selling tours at discounted prices, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) reported. Last week, the Tourism Authority of Thailand<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}