Popular Post webfact Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 Tourism minister tells the Chinese: Come to Thailand, STV is not group tours Picture: Daily News Thailand's minister for tourism and sports has responded to what he called "confusion" after the Chinese ministry for tourism and culture extended their ban on tour groups travelling abroad and added a block on inbound tourism to China. Pipat Ratchakitprakarn said he may need to have a word with the Chinese authorities so that their people will understand this ban doesn't apply to those seeking entry on the STV or special tourism visa that is an entirely different matter. All they have to do is get the paperwork together, do the 14 day quarantine and the tests and they are free to travel in Thailand as they wish. There is no ban on their movements, just tour groups on regular visas. This was also stressed by Chatthathan Kunchorn, the TAT rep for Asia and the Pacific, who said it just applied to tour groups and had been in place since the start of the pandemic to stop the spread of Covid-19. Addressing the Chinese he said: "There's no problem - come to Thailand. We know you want to!" He told Daily News that lots of Chinese would like to come to Thailand but many were just waiting to see how arrangements for the first visitors - who arrived on Tuesday in Bangkok - panned out. He described this group as being "ambassadors" leading the way for others to follow. Meanwhile speculation online was rife about the group who arrived from Shanghai, with many questioning if they were really "tourists" at all, notes Thaivisa. In other news Pipat addressed concerns coming from Pattaya after business leaders claimed consulates in Russia had told potential STV tourists that they could not get the coveted CoE (certificate of entry) to come to Thailand. This was due to problems over where they would quarantine. Some had made bookings to do the Alternative Local State Quarantine in Pattaya then had their permission to come denied, reports coming out of Pattaya suggested. Pipat said that he had contacted the Foreign Ministry indicating that they should inform people that there were facilities in Pattaya for ALSQ. Earlier reports suggested that three hotels in the resort had been approved and 13 others had applied to be allowed to offer ALSQ. Thaivisa notes that this case is another where it appears that one Thai ministry is not communicating adequately with another. Source: Daily News -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2020-10-23 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 6 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Pattaya Spotter Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 9 minutes ago, webfact said: Thaivisa notes that this case is another where it appears that one Thai ministry is not communicating adequately with another. So everything running normally. 16 1 36 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tropicalevo Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 13 minutes ago, webfact said: He described this group as being "ambassadors" leading the way for others to follow. Except that they were not tourists. From another spokesman from the CCSA - The successful trip of a government delegation from China. 31 1 3 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Forza2002 Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 Thailand the masters of miscommunication and misunderstandings.... Done deliberately or is it due to incompetence, probably a mixture of both... 26 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post uncleP Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 The Chinese have banned tours and tourists in and out. So no change here! 7 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HiSoLowSoNoSo Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 48 minutes ago, webfact said: All they have to do is get the paperwork together And therein lies the problem. 12 1 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ezzra Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 50 minutes ago, webfact said: All they have to do is get the paperwork together, do the 14 day quarantine and the tests and they are free to travel in Thailand as they wish. Wow, a holiday of a life time, visiting Thailand is so coveted that tourists actually be willing to jump through hoops be locked up and pay for it just to visit Thailand, this tourism minister is deluding himself that people are that gullible and that this will actually happen in significant numbers to justify all this brouhaha... 29 1 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AlfHuy Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 Panic goes through Chinese leadership: ???? Pipat Ratchakitprakarn said he may need to have a word with the Chinese authorities 2 35 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RotBenz8888 Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 2 hours ago, webfact said: All they have to do is get the paperwork together 5 49 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fruitman Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 2 hours ago, webfact said: All they have to do is get the paperwork together, do the 14 day quarantine and the tests and they are free to travel in Thailand as they wish. 555555 is that all? And what about the Thai insurance we HAVE to buy as a tourist?? Is that finished? 3 1 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PatOngo Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 2 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said: So everything running normally. Yes, the circus rolls on! Hey there, hoopla the circus is in town, have you seen the dinosaurs Have you seen the clowns! 4 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Pattaya Spotter Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 1 minute ago, PatOngo said: Yes, the circus rolls on! Hey there, hoopla the circus is in town, have you seen the dinosaurs Have you seen the clowns! I hear they have a killer elephant show ???? 1 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy John Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 6 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said: I hear they have a killer elephant show ???? That's actually a bit distressing! What happens if the elephants go nuts and start killing tourists??? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PatOngo Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 2 hours ago, webfact said: Pipat Ratchakitprakarn said he may need to have a word with the Chinese authorities No need for words, just Ben Dover and lower the pants! 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatOngo Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 1 minute ago, Grumpy John said: That's actually a bit distressing! What happens if the elephants go nuts and start killing tourists??? The elephants in this circus only kill locals! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ThailandRyan Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 2 hours ago, webfact said: Pipat Ratchakitprakarn said he may need to have a word with the Chinese authorities Is this guy just a senile old git, or what. "I think I may need to have a word", what planet does he think he is on. Oh I forgot Thailand is the center of the universe. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pantsonfire Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 This guy is a master of advertising. I am sold. It seems so easy to come. Oh i forgot to read the small print. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ajarnmarc Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 1 hour ago, RotBenz8888 said: Looks the same as my Non-O visa application...how did you know? As most would claim on this site, it's easy, you just have to follow the rules, it is not that hard. Truly the paperwork can be ran through, as in life; anything worth doing can be done. The issue here is, there is always something either not good enough i.e. photo quality, or lacking the figure pointing to the address, or placement of where the address to the house is placed, the map, not being hand drawn well or every road labeled near your home, because they not want to except a screen shot of google map, quality of photos not be done perfectly, or the placement of the items they want copied multiple time, not being placed vertically one year, or horizontally the next year, background of the id photo not be white, or blue; this too can change year to year or officer to officer, not having your landlord come with you in some cases, or not show adequately that they register your stay on their property, even though you provide a screen shot showing they did register online with the Government site. You name it, they will find something to default back on, and when they do, best to duck, for they will likely throw the passport back upon you, like you're a child who should not make mistakes and who should know better. Especially if you've been here for any period of time, it gets even worse, on how they might react. Expats are not what they truly want, unless you come bearing gifts and a nice padded envelope, then you're treated like the fish they want you to be...follow the rules as they develop them, and pay as you go, then pay some more, would be greatly appreciated, with a Thai Wai. 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post crazykopite Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 These ????????s need to wake up sooner rather than later tourists of any kind and any nationality are not going to come until this quarantine ruling has been thrown in the garbage can if they don’t it will be many more trillions of baht lost as we approach the peak season 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RotBenz8888 Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 11 minutes ago, ajarnmarc said: Looks the same as my Non-O visa application...how did you know? I went to CW last week for extension of stay, that's why????. And yes, they wanted an extra document from me, as always. This time a copy of the Tm30. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post IamNoone88 Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 There is no hope of a recovery if all do is invite the Chinese as if they are the only important market. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post phantomfiddler Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 Whatever happened to the realization that the Chinese were the paragons of "Zero Baht Tourists", who paid for everything in China and spent next to nothing here ? The main spenders here were the Europeans, Americans, Russians, and Australians, but the authorities here seem to have their heads where the sun never shines, incapable of coming out with any sensible realistic solutions ???? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Surelynot Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 16 minutes ago, IamNoone88 said: There is no hope of a recovery if all do is invite the Chinese as if they are the only important market. They are going to set their stall out for the Chinese market and go down the same road.....all their eggs in one basket. Tourism from the rest of the world will slowly shrink.....covid20 is only a matter of time...the Chinese will never change their eating habits...and it will happen all over again. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwood1 Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 You got to be kidding.....The Chinese can not come to Thailand unless they have a red flag to follow... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guderian Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 5 hours ago, webfact said: Pipat Ratchakitprakarn said he may need to have a word with the Chinese authorities so that their people will understand this ban doesn't apply to those seeking entry on the STV or special tourism visa that is an entirely different matter. Well that'll have Chairman Xi and the PLA trembling! My Buddha, he might threaten to dispatch the Thai aircraft carrier, lol... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RichardColeman Posted October 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2020 5 hours ago, webfact said: Tourism minister tells the Chinese: Come to Thailand, ............and if you buy a condo on your tour all the better 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surelynot Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 1 minute ago, Guderian said: Well that'll have Chairman Xi and the PLA trembling! My Buddha, he might threaten to dispatch the Thai aircraft carrier, lol... If only they had those submarines......but the Chinese will know exactly where they are all the time!!! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meat Pie 47 Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 (edited) 43 minutes ago, crazykopite said: These ????????s need to wake up sooner rather than later tourists of any kind and any nationality are not going to come until this quarantine ruling has been thrown in the garbage can if they don’t it will be many more trillions of baht lost as we approach the peak season That quarantine ruling applies in most countries where I live we had no local transmission for 5 months but I am not even allowed to leave Edited October 23, 2020 by Meat Pie 47 spelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JusticeGB Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 So the 41, 40 or 39 tourists which nobody managed to count properly weren't even tourists but Chinese Government Officials. The Office of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports can't even communicate with Immigration to allow Russian Tourists to go to Government approved quarantine in Pattaya so how can this magical place of fiction persuade the Chinese Government to change its mind to allow Chinese tourists to come to Thailand. Other magnificent porkies will be announced daily. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricTh Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 This tourism minister has got things wrong. No true tourist will want to 'do the 14 days quarantine' just to go for a holiday in that country. Long-term stayers yes but not tourists. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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