Golf Quarantine: First arrivals from Korea and will spend 5,571 baht ++ a day

 

Picture: Siam Rath

 

Forty one South Koreans were seen off at Incheon International Airport yesterday evening by the Seoul TAT station representative Jiranee Phoonnayom.

 

They are the first group to come from the country for so-called "Golf Quarantine" in Thailand.

 

They will be staying at the Artitaya Country Club in Nakhon Nayok for 14 days then will play at Artitaya in Chiang Mai. 

 

Jiranee gave them all complimentary Spa Vouchers and told Siam Rath that this would bring in 13.1 million baht over two months. 

 

The Koreans were paying 5,571 baht per person per day plus 69,000 baht on top for the quarantine. 

 

The TAT in Seoul had conducted a golf webinar to promote golf quarantine and had worked with a leading golf travel agent in South Korea. 

 

The group were met by Artitaya chairman Su-hei Lee then boarded Korean Air KE 653 due to arrive in Bangkok at 11.20 last night. 

 

Source: Siam Rath

 

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13 minutes ago, webfact said:

Golf Quarantine: First arrivals from Korea and will spend 5,571 baht

I have been known to spend 30,000 baht on BG drinks in 1 night.???? Cheep Charley's.????????

3 hours ago, webfact said:

First arrivals from Korea and will spend 5,571 baht ++ a day

How you know, Khon Thai??? Did they institute a pledging scheme??? Some would spill that much on a good night out!

Very surprised Anutin didn't crowbar them into his very own golf resort....which was one of the first offering quarantine....????

The ones on the picture looks more like they are from North Korea then golfers.....

Do they not have grass fields with holes in them in their own country?

1 hour ago, hakancnx said:

The ones on the picture looks more like they are from North Korea then golfers.....

Kim Jon Un - back row right hand side with glasses???

9 hours ago, webfact said:

They will be staying at the Artitaya Country Club in Nakhon Nayok for 14 days then will play at Artitaya in Chiang Mai

Either poorly written or they are playing golf after 14 days of quarantine?

 

If that's the case, what's the point? You can do whatever you want after quarantine. 

Not happy about this. The group I usually play with is scheduled to be at Artitaya CM when the Koreans are there. Will be interesting to see how it is all handled.

Tee off in Thailand as tourists arrive for golf quarantine

By Chayut Setboonsarng, Sangmi Cha

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand has welcomed golfers from South Korea for the country’s new golf quarantine programme in a bid to boost tourism revenue hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

 

About 40 South Koreans are undergoing quarantine at Artitaya Country Club, an hour north of Bangkok, where they were tested on arrival last week, Tourism Authority of Thailand deputy governor, Thapanee Kiatphaibool, told Reuters.

 

Thailand has been successful in controlling coronavirus cases, but strict border controls have decimated its tourism industry, with revenues dropping by 83% as it went from 40 million visitors in 2019 to 6.7 million last year.

 

The golf quarantine programme is drawing only a small fraction of around 250,000 South Korean golfers who visited Thailand in 2019, but officials hope it will grow at the six approved courses which have specific health measures in place.

 

The South Koreans who arrived last week are staying in hotel rooms for three days and can go out on the course after results from their first coronavirus test come back negative.

 

They are tested again on the ninth and 13th days of their stay before being discharged from quarantine.

 

“There have been continuous bookings,” Thapanee said, adding that the programme started by targeting short-haul markets carrying low to moderate risks such as Singapore and Hong Kong.

 

Thailand has kept the number of coronavirus cases to 25,599 infections and 83 fatalities by sealing off its borders but the tourism industry, which contributes around 12% to its economy, has been badly hit.

 

In 2020, revenue dropped to 332 billion baht ($11.07 billion) from 1.91 trillion baht the previous year.

Each tourist in the programme will generate revenue of at least 100,000 baht, she said.

 

“Tourists could go and enjoy other destinations after quarantine, so there will be more revenue of at least two to three times the average,” Thapanee said.

 

Artitaya Country Club’s Seoul office said the package cost 2.49 million won ($2,240) for a 15-day stay -- including meals but not flights -- with interest coming from Koreans doing business in Thailand, student-athletes and golf academies looking for private practice facilities.

 

(Reporting by Chayut Setboonsarng and Panarat Thepgumpanat in Bangkok and Sangmi Cha in Seoul, editing by Ed Osmond)

 

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6 hours ago, webfact said:

About 40 South Koreans

 Surely they must have an exact number - or is this more TAT BS!