{"id":4158,"date":"2023-04-13T02:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/13\/use-of-e-ticketing-for-tourists-sees-revenue-rocket-for-thai-national-parks\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T02:00:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T09:00:40","slug":"use-of-e-ticketing-for-tourists-sees-revenue-rocket-for-thai-national-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/13\/use-of-e-ticketing-for-tourists-sees-revenue-rocket-for-thai-national-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of e-ticketing for tourists sees revenue rocket for Thai national parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"primary\">\n<p class=\"standfirst\">Thailand\u2019s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation has seen its revenue soar following the introduction of an e-ticketing system. <\/p>\n<p>According to a report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/thainews.prd.go.th\/en\/news\/detail\/TCATG230410125207579\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National News Bureau of Thailand<\/a>, Rakchanok Paenoi, chief of Hat Noppharat Thara-Mu Ko Phi-Phi National Park, said that revenue from entry fees from the sale of e-tickets has increased by 20-30%.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On average, one million Thai baht (\u00a323,000\/\u20ac27,000\/$29,000) is taken a day, and a total of 137 million Thai baht has been taken since the e-ticketing system was introduced in July last year. The system charges tourists visiting the Phi-Phi islands, with roughly 4,000 attending each day.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The report added that the number of visitors had increased compared 2-3 times compared to this time last year, with the majority of tourists hailing from Russia and Europe.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, Paenoi also admitted that it was difficult for park officials to check e-tickets of some visitors due to poor telephone signal, which will be fixed in due course. The e-tickets also cannot be used for tourists wanting to continue on to other islands such as Ko Phai and Phi-Phi Don due to the poor signal.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The department head Atthaphon Charoenchansa told the news outlet that they will try to promote increased use of e-tickets to cover entry fees to all national parks over the next two years.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<div class=\"tax-cat-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-cat\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Filed under<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Awards<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Tags<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Stadiums<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2023\/04\/13\/use-of-e-ticketing-for-tourists-sees-revenue-rocket-for-thai-national-parks\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Thailand\u2019s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation has seen its revenue soar following the introduction of an e-ticketing system. According to a report from the National News Bureau of Thailand, Rakchanok Paenoi, chief of Hat Noppharat Thara-Mu Ko Phi-Phi National Park, said that revenue from entry fees from the sale of e-tickets &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,2969,1501,251,4394,4395,909,234,799],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attractions","category-attractions-experiences","category-e-ticketing","category-experiences","category-ko-phi-phi","category-national-parks","category-thailand","category-tourism","category-tourists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}