THA president backs safe and sealed tours

By Don Ross

 

Thai Hotel Association president Marisa Sukosol Nunbhakdi

  

BANGKOK, 24 August 2020: Newly elected Thai Hotel Association president, Marisa Sukosol Nunbhakdi, backs the plan to introduce a trial of “safe and sealed travel” this October.

 

The government-backed pilot project will focus on Phuket allowing tourists to visit the island via strictly controlled and isolated transfers that will see travellers quarantined in hotels for 14 days before they are allowed to travel freely on the island. They will be allowed to stay for 30-days with public health officials providing surveillance and testing.

 

Plans are unfolding led by the Tourism Authority of Thailand and the country’s Ministry of Public Health to ensure the project lives up to its name and ‘safe and sealed’.

 

Asked for a comment, the THA president said: ” I fully agree. The private sector has had the opportunity to share thoughts regarding unlocking travel at several forums. The government has been very inclusive in this process… I think that no matter what the restrictions will be, we have to start somewhere. October will be a good time to begin.”

 

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9 minutes ago, webfact said:

to ensure the project lives up to its name and ‘safe and sealed’.

So they effectively want to safely seal tourists into a hotel? And they think large numbers of people will agree to this?

Maybe they should take the time to ask prospective tourists overseas what they think of this idiocy, at which point it should be back to the drawing board.

What will happen if the tourists want to go elsewhere?

 

They will pay for an expensive flight if they have all the proper paperwork, and have insurance cover for $100,000, be confined to the hotel room for 14 days at their own expense. If they have any of their holiday left they will be free to explore Phuket. When they return home they may face another 14 days in quarantine.

 

The Thai Hoteliers Association actually believe that they will do that. 

 

Take a reality check.

 

1   There will have to be passenger flights available

2   Tourists will have to be in work with no possibility of being laid off

3   They will most probably (at least this year) have a staycation holiday in their own countries

4   They will want to go where THEY want to go and not necessarily where the Thai government wants them to go

5   14 days and nights stuck in a hotel room in another country will not be likewd or wanted by any western tourists

6   The lady is talking it up but IMHO it won't happen

They seal you air-tight and close the hotel door.

C'mon, people. 

Any tourist dependent business, such as this Thai hotel association, will support anything - ANYTHING - that might bring money to them.  It makes no difference what it is.  Why waste the time to even report this as some kind of news?

only way I'd let them in is if they remained chained together for the duration..