Departments ink MoU to prevent fraud in tourism department to access the tourism database in THE NATION Ministry of of THE Department of Tourism and order to verify the backgrounds those applying orguides. Thisshould help the Department of a operators Administration of understanding to prevent fraud and scams in the memorandum information on census reg tourism industry The MoU covers the sharing of share personal-identity database of cen- istration and thecomputerised databases in an effort to sus information and the protocol fraud in the tourism industry Second Lieutenant for reading ID cards. The infor- director mation shared under this agree- Acting Gaesornsuwan, ment will be used by the tourism Arnupap department general of the tourism said tour operators and tour guides department as a basis for consid- and renewal eration, registration, and tour-guide were an essential part of Thailand's tourism industry asthey are indirect of tour-operator visiting licences, or their suspension or rev contac with Thailand. The quality and standards ocation if neeessary of these professionals are therefore of Arn upap said the symergy between these two government utmost importance to us To standardise and upgrade agencies would pave the way for improvement of the standards of their services, the tourism d ment has made an agreement with tour businesses and tour guides in terms of service quality. It is also administration the provincial Bureau of Registration expected to minimise tourists' risk department's ministration. This will enable:the of being tricked or mistreated.