{"id":482,"date":"2019-07-11T11:10:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T11:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themepalacedemo.com\/magazinews-pro\/?p=219"},"modified":"2019-07-11T11:10:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T11:10:23","slug":"travellers-to-thailand-may-have-to-buy-compulsory-travel-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/2019\/07\/11\/travellers-to-thailand-may-have-to-buy-compulsory-travel-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand require compulsory insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand is considering making travel insurance compulsory with travellers obliged to purchase a special policy from airports when they arrive.<\/p>\n<p>Pending approval from the the country\u2019s Ministry of Tourism and Sports, the new policy \u2013 which would cost 20 baht (\u00a30.52\/\u20ac0.58\/US$0.65) for 30 days\u2019 cover \u2013 is likely to be rolled out later this year, according to the Thai Office of the Insurance Commission.<\/p>\n<p>All proceeds would go to Thailand\u2019s Tourism Promotion Fund and used to cover payments in the event of a claim, said secretary-general Suthiphon Thaveechaiyagarn. The policy, available to purchase at immigration offices at Thailand\u2019s airports, would offer up to one million baht (\u00a326,000\/\u20ac28,957\/$32,467) of cover in case of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand is considering making travel insurance compulsory with travellers obliged to purchase a special policy from airports when they arrive. Pending approval from the the country\u2019s Ministry of Tourism and Sports, the new policy \u2013 which would cost 20 baht (\u00a30.52\/\u20ac0.58\/US$0.65) for 30 days\u2019 cover \u2013 is likely to be rolled out later this year, according to the Thai Office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2019\/07\/beach-water-sand-sky-sunshine-car-971394-pxhere.com_-e1562845535341.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}