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You may call them that. The TAT call them "tourist arrivals" ????

Who could have possibly known? Everyone + science. But, where you can you get an additional mRNA vaccine in Thailand? Nowhere.

This shouldn't be news to anyone and you could insert any countries name into that article heading. Global mass tourism will take years to recover, if it returns to pre-pandemic levels at all.

Corporate. Word. Salad.

The stats from the international arrivals in the sandbox testing positive already prove it's a waste of time. What's the point in a country that covid is endemic with official numbers on cases surpassing 2 million today, which makes it way more really. I mean you wouldn't want to be spending that money elsewhere, like, uh I dunno, vaccines.

A prison where people have done nothing more than to test positive for asymptomatic covid and are perfectly well?. They clearly deserve to have poor food for letting down the community....

Meanwhile, can't even be bothered to clear the paperwork for western countries wanting to donate quality vaccines. Didn't they announce last month they were not going back to Sinovac? Yet here we are....Groundhog Day. Please give us Chinese money and tourists.

Consider it a public service. It's the Nokia of payment platforms and should be a footnote in history.

I'm sure he could try harder to quarantine and hospitalise tourists at their own expense if he put his mind to it.

Only those of us who live here or long term motivated travellers. Short term tourists would be idiots to come here with the current system. The Thailand Pass is just the start of the nonsense. Once you get past the stupidity of that system, enjoy the Russian roulette of getting tested, or better still just being near someone who tests positive. Airlines are not stupid. You only return slots when you know there's no point in keeping them. If you think the paperwork is bad now, so you can have the "privilege of coming to Thailand" and spending your money, can you imagine the nightmare of getting the slots back. The expected arrival numbers are just lottery numbers with about as much chance of hitting them.

You have to be an idiot to choose Thailand and come here as a short term tourist right now. No insurance will cover you for some of eventualities you could face that are imposed on you by the Thai authorities that many other destinations do not. Go somewhere else without the stress of wondering if you'll be banged up at your expense because someone else near you tests positive. It's a disgrace and disservice to the people of Thailand that the TAT continually "targets" and "lures" people (their words, not mine) with this system and attitude in play.

They call those people "sensible". The sad part is that I personally doubt most people understand the true ramifications if they, or a member of their party do test positive. Welcome to your 2 week holiday from hell. The criminal part is the TAT advertising and targeting anyone with a pulse to come to Amazing Thailand. Just don't worry about the small print.

I know someone who got hit by the private hospital for testing positive. 120,000 THB, no symptoms. The change will be for the quarantine hotel for the family. Please enjoy your holiday in Thailand...

The trap is sprung! You have to make it out alive too. Remember that test before you fly? Better hope you didn't get covid while you were playing in the covid capital of SE Asia. Seriously though. Even with a robust insurance policy (very very few) that will genuinely pay for ALL your expenses in the event of an asymptotic test with no medically necessary treatment, nobody is covered for a quarantine hotel for being a close contact.

Do the ankle bracelets come in a Ferrari branded edition?

If logic ever played a part in it, Thailand would have long ago implemented a remote worker visa and enjoyed just pulling in foreign money to be dumped into the local economy. But here we are. TIT.

Trough is empty. No money for tea. Please send more.

No. It is not the same here in the sandbox. If you test positive then you are up for a mandatory hospital or hospitel (medically staffed hotel) at your expense. This isn't just for on arrival, but at any time during your stay, including after the mandatory PCR test before you leave. That's why you are required to have insurance of $50k. If you are part of a party where one tests positive, then you're likely going to enjoy a quarantine hotel for 14 days, again at your expense.

The Thai Navy did the heavy lifting and many servicemen would have laid down their lives trying, even though they knew they were ill equipped and untrained in that environment. One indeed did. It was a matter of national pride. Without them, those kids would not have made it out. Credit where credit is due.

I agree. VFS Global are a complete shower. I have had to deal with them for an Australian matter and it was a terrible experience. They are the worst. That said, I could not help but be amused by the thought that the passport stock is made in France isn't it ? No love lost there by the day.

Talk about beating a dead horse. Rip offs will be worse than usual because tourists are not coming in droves as the government has hyped with multiple daily announcements.

So wait...you never even checked this would be possible. You just pulled a couple of names out of your behind and let the drama unfold. Of course. Because TIT.

Just another great reason to not fly Thai airways, as if anyone really needed more. Forget the Chinese though, they are not travelling until way into 2022 at the earliest, unless someone really enjoys state quarantine facilities. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/29/china/guangzhou-covid-quarantine-center-mic-intl-hnk/index.html Which means Thailand will just scrabble around for anyone to come in the middle of pandemic to the epicentre of ASEAN covid where you get locked up at your expense if you test positive.

Wonder what the headlines will look like when a family get shoved into a $$$ hospitel at their expense because someone tested positive for asymptotic covid and the sudden realisation that insurance is not all it's cracked up to be.

Don't worry. Be another announcement along shortly. They are more frequent than the Tokyo subway.