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Prayuth forget to tell that the plane carried Thai's from the Middle East with also 14 Thai infections.

As for foreigners even if they open the borders the Europeans will not come and South America, the US and as well the Mideast are in a mess which leaves only ASEAN countries and East Asia which have seen spikes.

Keeping the border closed might be the best option but my guess Prayuth soon will announce foreigners with Thai wifes or children are not permitted to come back.

On 7/11/2020 at 1:35 PM, marin said:

You dont seem to have a clue. All the new cases are Thai's returning from abroad.

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and how about the 19 Covid-19 infections from deported Burmese last month. That clearly were Burmese that got infected in Thailand so all this local transmission is rubbish.

Ask your employee to contact the senders bank and fax the MT-199 SWIFT message to the SCB Remittance Dept.

7 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Thats why its a good idea to hook up with a Thai girl.  To take care of business for you.

She often takes a cut too. 

Australia and NZ will not come and I heard they keep the airport close for another few months on international flights. 

I would stay for the time being from Wellness.  Most medical tourists from overseas come from the Middle East and South Asia and Covid-19 is still very much active in those countries.

On 6/20/2020 at 2:35 PM, Rabbi said:

What about those tourists that have been stuck in Thailand since March and can't get back home.

Their are many flights that can be flown out but you cant fly in but you can fly out. Qatar, LH and KLM are active from end of the month

Those loaded with cash go to places to be seen. St. Moritz, Nice, Monaco, Marbella, Singapore, Whistler, Macau and a few rounds of black jack and poker at the casino's.

Thailand should attract the Middle Class spenders but if I have to chose between Phuket and Bali I would pick Bali.

Thailand is left out on all travel bubbles because of the racist issues of Anutin and they must wait for India, China and Russia to rediscover Thailand. As an example Bangkok is a shopping destinations for tourists from ASEAN countries but even if they open the borders the Indonesians, Malays and Singaporeans will not come just to save a few bucks to go shopping or have a foot massage. The Top Destinations of Singapore Airlines due to a survey are Germany, South Korea, Australia, Japan and Taiwan. 

It looks clear to me that the global travel industry is focusing on the free world and that leaves Thailand completely out and with Russia, India and China still have not cleared Covid-19 many governments around the world see Thailand to close to China so my guess they can only establish a travel bubble with other countries that give a damn about environments, human rights and sustainable tourism.

The only thing that is on the table is a Green Lane for business travelers to come back including a large number of engineers as many factories have issues with their machinery and those machines need to be maintained by overseas staffs from the manufacturers mainly from Japan, South Korea, China and Europe.

Thailand is finished and a lot of hotels will cancel the lease or convert into condos and the country have to start back from scratch 1 from the 80's.

Malaysia has not that problem as they have a country such as Singapore as a neighbor and a lot of Indonesians and Singaporeans that own properties in the country. 

The only way for Thai hotels is to dump prices to attract it to local travelers and a friend of mine who runs a hotel that cost normally 2600 Baht a night you can buy that room now at 750 Baht per night

The German restaurant Zur Pfalz still does well and from the bars I only drop by at the Fun Bar as the owner always is a nice chap with his Mrs.

Soisampan is not much special and it will be interesting to see how many will reopening in Udon. Two farang bars near the Park have shut down and the bars was not sold but just just shutdown.

2 hours ago, Mulambana said:

Greece is allowing tourists from 29 countries, including China but not from USA or UK though UK is their largest tourists number of arrivals/day before Covid-19. Even the UK PM has his private villa in Greece. Here are the 29 countries Albania, Australia, Austria, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Estonia, Japan, Israel, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lebanon, New Zealand, Lithuania, Malta, Montenegro, Norway, South Korea, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia,

China is for business travelers only. 

I can assure everyone that Thailand is not on the list with a Travel Bubble between South Korea, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand but possible Vietnam will be added and so could be Taiwan and Hong Kong.

China and Thailand is a possibility but with the latest outbreak in Beijing at another wet market I doubt that any country would want to jump on a travel bubble deal with the communists in China. Their is a green lane between Singapore and China, however only for business travel.

I guess Thailand will have a travel bubble with India, Russia and China by the end of the year. ????

China stays close until October and as far as I heard only business travelers might fly out of China. 

The only visitors they will get this year are Lao, Malaysian, Cambodian and Burmese, if they want to come and a few farangs that are overseas and can't get back to their families.

The European Union will allow EU travel from the 15th of June again but travel warnings will stay for the other 160 countries which also means European cant travel to Thailand any way, even if Thailand opens the borders again. In Germany and France a poll was conducted several days ago and only 1% of travelers want to travel out of the EU.

Turkey and Egypt will be hard hit too as it looks like they have to focus on Russian inbound tourists only this summer season.

19 hours ago, Selatan said:

Unfortunately for China-hating farangs like you, Thailand is highly dependent on tourism. Thailand would definitely seek to be the first destination to be allowed for the Chinese to visit in the coming months. China would definitely try to help Thailand. I wouldn't be surprised if those countries that badmouthed China, such as Australia and the US would be the countries on long term bans. That's probably something you would be happy about.

Don't worry about the Western countries. Germany too has asked for an independent investigation and that very much means the European Union will come up on the side of the West. Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia want to become the export hub for those Western countries that are pulling out of the PRC. Keep an eye on Foxcomm what they will do in the next 60 - 90 days. This is not about the Western World but about the free world and that would include also Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, the EU, US, Canada, New Zealand and the Thai's are not stupid as Thailand only exports 29 billion of goods to China which is just 11% of total trade and Thailand imported 53 billion USD from China.

I don't think anyone in the world would want to fly to China for a holiday and from friends in Singapore, the Chinese will do this year domestic travel.

The reason why Anutin puts Chinese on the list is to allow the Thai hospitality industry to recover and as for South Korea, Korean Air announced yesterday but the airline announced only : Washington, D.C., Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto, Frankfurt, Singapore, Beijing and Kuala Lumpur. Why Thailand is not on the list might have something to do when Thailand and Japan announced to ban South Koreans over night, so no Bangkok and Tokyo on the list currently and the Koreans will pay that back to Thailand so the Koreans will be in a very small number but a large number will go to Vietnam. Soon 1 Dollar tours will be allowed again and then the Chinese will also come again but my guess next year, this year its a lot about domestic travel and from friends that run several travel publications all airlines cancelled advertising for this year and they have been advertising for 25 years already and even THAI Airways cancelled until 4th quarter. 

3 minutes ago, SiSePuede419 said:

So what?

 

Politicians all over the world have waved their magic wands and said this lockdown is over.

 

Despite rising death rates in some locations. ????

and ?

Its not about the death rates. Thailand doesn't have a high death rates. The points is the world has other problems and doesn't care about Thailand. This article is about Thailand and not the some death rate.

The OP was about Chiang Mai that Chinese want to come again to Thailand. They will not come or maybe on 1 Dollar tours.

Mrs just bought 8 boxes of Chang, Leo and Whiskey. We are based in Udon and a high ranking official told her that the ban will be announced nationwide of alcohol including a 100,000 fine for any shop that violates the rules.

In Scotland the infection rate is between 4-6% as I have seen on Sky News. Bangkok is a big city 

This is rubbish from the ICU guy in the Bangkok Hospital.

Mortality is linked to the general conditions of the country towards the Corona visrus.

You can't compare a hospital in some Thai provinces to a hospital in Lombardy Italy. The Lombardy region has some of the best health care system in the world and they have a mortality rate of 8.9%.

The Italy strain is the same as the Wuhan Covid-19 strain but countries with a strong health care system can handle it. 

Community transmission has been going on since 26th last month at least and it was part of the 2nd wave of Covid transmission with flights open by Japan, Thailand and South Korea.

The main wave is from Thailand, Korea and Japan and a large number of Thai's returned and they are unaccounted for specially from Europe and East Asia.

The few farangs that come in from Europe now to Thailand is very slim and even two weeks ago the number was small compared to the community spreading that has been gone for the past 3 weeks THROUGHOUT Thailand.

I am worried about Thailand as they are not prepared. BigC is getting closed down and so is Robinson. This only leaves Tesco Lotus to feed the population and 7/11 as markets surely will be shutdown.

The next 2 weeks will be Chaos in Thailand