Opening to tourists: Three hundred more Chinese this month - Europeans must wait until November

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thailand's tourism minister Pipat Ratchakitprakarn told Thai Rath that 300 foreign tourists would be arriving in Thailand before the end of October on the STV (special tourist visa).

 

It will be no surprise to many Thai watchers that all of them will be Chinese. 

 

Thai Rath said in their headline on a piece summing up the latest pandemic news worldwide and in Thailand, that 40 Chinese arrived from Shanghai on Tuesday all testing negative for coronavirus.

 

In comments further attributed to billionaire minister Pipat it was reported that arrivals on the STV from Europe would start next month.

 

Earlier reports suggested these may be Russians or perhaps Scandinavians - it depends who you ask, notes Thaivisa. 

 

In other snippets the media reported that PM Prayut Chan-ocha had thanked all his agencies for their work and urged them to communicate well to the Thai people about government policy.

 

That policy seems confused at best. 

 

A headline today indicated that plans were afoot to reduce state quarantine yet Prayut said after a meeting at government house there would be no reduction yet as many things had to be considered. 

 

Similarly health minister Anutin Charnvirakul has displayed contradictory behavior - gung-ho about the arrival of the Chinese one minute and evasive about the ending of the Covid-19 emergency decree the next. 

 

This will only add fuel to the fire of those that say emergency measures suit the policies of the government while being detrimental to the people, notes Thaivisa. 

 

Further worries for the authorities, said Thai Rath, were the porous land borders with an incursion in Mae Sot, Tak, in the north west of particular concern. 

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

 

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3 minutes ago, webfact said:

A headline today indicated that plans were afoot to reduce state quarantine yet Prayut said after a meeting at government house there would be no reduction yet as many things had to be considered. 

 

There is no definite answer, their opinion changes daily, with so many "experts" coming out with different opinions.

Pretty similar to most of this governments decisions on any subject.

china says no.

 

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-10-21/china-says-will-maintain-ban-on-outbound-tours-due-to-virus-risk

10 minutes ago, webfact said:

Opening to tourists: Three hundred more Chinese this month - Europeans must wait until November

It will be no surprise to many Thai watchers that all of them will be Chinese. 

 

Your right no surprise at all........Not much surprises us Non-Chinese/Non Thai's anymore about  Thailand ????

 

4 minutes ago, ChouDoufu said:

china says no.

 

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-10-21/china-says-will-maintain-ban-on-outbound-tours-due-to-virus-risk

Quick, quick, uncle, now must say chinese can not come to save face

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

40 Chinese arrived from Shanghai

No, 39 Chinese.....

I see a web of tangle lies will be unfolding soon especially with this little nugget.  

 

"China will continue to suspend outbound group tours and ban travel agencies from allowing inbound tours due to the risk of a resurgence in coronavirus cases this winter, authorities said.  The country's Ministry of Culture and Tourism made the announcement in a notice published on its website on Wednesday"

 

Can someone help the Thai Government understand that other countries are still not cooperating as they say they are.  Can someone explain to me who these 39 Chinese tourists really are? or, are they just really a new set of possible new diplomatic staff that have come to conduct an annual change at the end of the year in the Chinese embassy.  However, before stepping into place they get a free vacation first, just a few thoughts off the top of my head..

The tourists are flooding into Thailand again ......   39 this week and another   300 supposedly soon.

 

I hope the ASQ hotels are ready for the surge .... 

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

I see a web of tangle lies will be unfolding soon especially with this little nugget.  

 

"China will continue to suspend outbound group tours and ban travel agencies from allowing inbound tours due to the risk of a resurgence in coronavirus cases this winter, authorities said.  The country's Ministry of Culture and Tourism made the announcement in a notice published on its website on Wednesday"

 

Can someone help the Thai Government understand that other countries are still not cooperating as they say they are.  Can someone explain to me who these 39 Chinese tourists really are? or, are they just really a new set of possible new diplomatic staff that have come to conduct an annual change at the end of the year in the Chinese embassy.  However, before stepping into place they get a free vacation first, just a few thoughts off the top of my head..

A photo of these "tourists" shows 34 men and 5 women that seems to support your theory. 

Nihao ma, big brothers, welcome, how much money did you bring? ????

Let's see what happens in three days. The CCP wannabe days might be over and western tourists could truly be welcome again.

4 hours ago, ChouDoufu said:

china says no.

 

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-10-21/china-says-will-maintain-ban-on-outbound-tours-due-to-virus-risk

????????????

4 hours ago, ChouDoufu said:

china says no.

 

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-10-21/china-says-will-maintain-ban-on-outbound-tours-due-to-virus-risk

 

Yes, the newspaper-that-must-not-be-quoted also carried that story this morning. It just confirms what was already obvious, that the people arriving here from China under the STV scheme are not tourists. It will be interesting to see if the same applies to the people supposedly coming from the country of Scandinavia, lol.

4 minutes ago, Guderian said:

 

Yes, the newspaper-that-must-not-be-quoted also carried that story this morning. It just confirms what was already obvious, that the people arriving here from China under the STV scheme are not tourists. It will be interesting to see if the same applies to the people supposedly coming from the country of Scandinavia, lol.

Yet, in all the world newspapers and media streams they are saluting Thailand and it's re-opening of tourism.  A friend from California called and asked since tourists are now welcomed if she could get here and do a VOE.  I had to burst her bubble and tell her it was all smoke and mirrors.  She instead will be heading to Hawaii for a month and then to Belize for a month where she will work from a Villa remotely, since it is now open to travelers.

Sorry, but it pi$$' me off, this pandering to a country which should pay reparation before any concessions beyond complete boycott are made. 

What a storm of information or is it disinformation? 

Consider the headlines. 

 

Typical.. Screw the rest of the world let's invite the country which "Covid" apparently originated, with arms wide open.. 

so just where do you go to, to report fake news?? ????

5 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

I see a web of tangle lies will be unfolding soon especially with this little nugget.  

 

"China will continue to suspend outbound group tours and ban travel agencies from allowing inbound tours due to the risk of a resurgence in coronavirus cases this winter, authorities said.  The country's Ministry of Culture and Tourism made the announcement in a notice published on its website on Wednesday"

 

Can someone help the Thai Government understand that other countries are still not cooperating as they say they are.  Can someone explain to me who these 39 Chinese tourists really are? or, are they just really a new set of possible new diplomatic staff that have come to conduct an annual change at the end of the year in the Chinese embassy.  However, before stepping into place they get a free vacation first, just a few thoughts off the top of my head..

 

To be fair, the Reuters piece did say "China will continue to suspend outbound group tours... " so these could be 'individual' tourists, if they are in fact tourists to begin with. Perhaps there really are people in this world who think going on tour without interacting with anything local, including its people and travelling only on predestined routes and destinations AFTER spending 14 days in quarantine in a foreign country, is an ideal vacation LOL

 

Why do they keep talking about this lack of tourist? 300tourist you can fit on the eye of a needle. Somebody  please come up with some new idea's

How funny would it be if they came here without the virus and court it here ????????????????????????????

1 hour ago, Curmudgeon1 said:

Sorry, but it pi$$' me off, this pandering to a country which should pay reparation before any concessions beyond complete boycott are made. 

Reparations for what?

2 hours ago, Curmudgeon1 said:

Sorry, but it pi$$' me off, this pandering to a country which should pay reparation before any concessions beyond complete boycott are made. 

Well, at least your profile name is correct!

Yet more BS 

China just announced no Outbound Tour Groups , hmmmm

2 hours ago, jossthaifarang said:

Typical.. Screw the rest of the world let's invite the country which "Covid" apparently originated, with arms wide open.. 

For Thailand, China represents it's tourism future as we have seen in it's recent past.  Every other country will play second fiddle to them.

 

 

"Similarly health minister Anutin Charnvirakul has displayed contradictory behavior - gung-ho about the arrival of the Chinese one minute and evasive about the ending of the Covid-19 emergency decree the next."

 

" Anutin Charnvirakul has displayed contradictory behavior"

 

Now there's a surprise!

9 minutes ago, Ireland32 said:

You don’t surf internet , they created a Bioweapon and the World in Lockdown , are you a hibernating Bear who just woke up , China apologist 

No one created any bio weapon, the world is not in lockdown, and you should go to hibernate instead of babling conspiracy theories.

7 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

I see a web of tangle lies will be unfolding soon especially with this little nugget.  

 

"China will continue to suspend outbound group tours and ban travel agencies from allowing inbound tours due to the risk of a resurgence in coronavirus cases this winter, authorities said.  The country's Ministry of Culture and Tourism made the announcement in a notice published on its website on Wednesday"

 

Can someone help the Thai Government understand that other countries are still not cooperating as they say they are.  Can someone explain to me who these 39 Chinese tourists really are? or, are they just really a new set of possible new diplomatic staff that have come to conduct an annual change at the end of the year in the Chinese embassy.  However, before stepping into place they get a free vacation first, just a few thoughts off the top of my head..

 

Maybe they are Chinese tourists business people looking to buy a few cheap hotels? There's plenty up for sale at the moment

7 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

I see a web of tangle lies will be unfolding soon especially with this little nugget.  

 

"China will continue to suspend outbound group tours and ban travel agencies from allowing inbound tours due to the risk of a resurgence in coronavirus cases this winter, authorities said.  The country's Ministry of Culture and Tourism made the announcement in a notice published on its website on Wednesday"

 

Can someone help the Thai Government understand that other countries are still not cooperating as they say they are.  Can someone explain to me who these 39 Chinese tourists really are? or, are they just really a new set of possible new diplomatic staff that have come to conduct an annual change at the end of the year in the Chinese embassy.  However, before stepping into place they get a free vacation first, just a few thoughts off the top of my head..

When I worked for the Brit foreign service, staff at our embassies changed at the end of their alloted tour. It would've been impossible for all staff to start and end their tour at the same time because of each of the staff's previous tour and personal commitments.  You also needed the staff who'd been at a posting longer to be able to guide you through the first few months of your stint. I can't see an embassy operating without that continuity. The Chinese of course may operate differently.