Plans afoot to woo Hollywood
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THE CABINET has approved in principle the Tourism and Sports Ministry's idea of attracting the producers of Hollywood movies to use Thailand as the setting for their next blockbusters.
“We are talking about famous blockbuster movies with high budgets such as ‘Star Wars’, for which, at one point, Thailand was considered as a location, but [the producers] opted to use the United Kingdom instead because it offered incentives and Thailand did not,” Tourism and Sports Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul said after the Cabinet meeting Tuesday.
“If we had incentives with some boundaries, such as using places that have tourist attractions as part of the movie sets, than we could promote our country’s image. Many countries in the region are also considering the same measures right now,” she said.
