Work permit holders account for largest group of foreigners to enter Thailand

 

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More work permit holders than foreign tourists have entered Thailand in the last ten months, new data has revealed.

 

According to data released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 81,489 foreigners entered Thailand between 4 April 2020 and 13 February 2021.

 

Of those, work permit holders, including their spouses and children (30,738 in total), accounted for the largest group of foreigners to have entered the country.

 

Retirees were part of the group that account for the second largest amount of foreign arrivals. 

 

While the stats didn’t specifically identify if tourists had entered under the Special Tourist Visa or Thailand Elite program, they are likely included in the listed as “People under special agreement such as businessmen, tourists & retirees (24,852)”.

 

Those married to Thai nationals were the 4th largest group, with some 9,618 in total arriving in Thailand, while students and ‘other’ made up the remaining arrivals.

 

The stats further reiterate the desperately grim state Thailand’s tourism industry finds itself  in.

 

As Thaivisa reported earlier this month, the amount of foreign tourists who have entered the country over the past 10 months are fewer than would typically have entered Thailand in a single day prior to the outbreak of COVID-19.

 

Despite Thailand launching its Special Tourist Visa scheme and allowing foreigners to enter the country on 60 day tourist visas and visa exempt entries, it hasn’t been enough to tempt foreigners to visit the country in any significant numbers. 

 

H/T Richard Barrow

 

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Quarantine at home for vaccinated returnees without any other restriction or hoops is the only way to tempt me ???? 

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Of those, work permit holders, including their spouses and children (30,738 in total), accounted for the largest group of foreigners to have entered the country.

 

Retirees were part of the group that account for the second largest amount of foreign arrivals. 

 

While the stats didn’t specifically identify if tourists had entered under the Special Tourist Visa or Thailand Elite program, they are likely included in the listed as “People under special agreement such as businessmen, tourists & retirees (24,852)”.

 

Those married to Thai nationals were the 4th largest group, with some 9,618 in total arriving in Thailand, while students and ‘other’ made up the remaining arrivals."

 

 

How many holders of a Thai Certificate of Residence entered in the same period? Not mentioned in the report.

 

2 hours ago, scorecard said:

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Of those, work permit holders, including their spouses and children (30,738 in total), accounted for the largest group of foreigners to have entered the country.

 

Retirees were part of the group that account for the second largest amount of foreign arrivals. 

 

While the stats didn’t specifically identify if tourists had entered under the Special Tourist Visa or Thailand Elite program, they are likely included in the listed as “People under special agreement such as businessmen, tourists & retirees (24,852)”.

 

Those married to Thai nationals were the 4th largest group, with some 9,618 in total arriving in Thailand, while students and ‘other’ made up the remaining arrivals."

 

 

How many holders of a Thai Certificate of Residence entered in the same period? Not mentioned in the report.

 

And your point is.....

They haven't mentioned the nationalities of the returnees either.

1 hour ago, Pedrogaz said:

And your point is.....

They haven't mentioned the nationalities of the returnees either.

My post has no intent to look at / comment on different nationalities.

 

My post referred to anybody who holds a Thai Certificate of Residence and more specifically how many of these people in total have returned to Thailand in the time period mentioned in the OP in this thread.

 

(Not the point of my post or the thread but it would be interesting to know how many foreigners who hold a Thai Certificate of Residence who were outside of Thailand when international flights into Thailand when the pandemic hit have not yet returned to Thailand and are waiting for some changes in the overall infection, vaccination, quarantine etc., situation. But I wonder if Thai Immigration records can calculate this number.) 

something wrong with the information. The first group is mentioned with the number,. 30.738Wha

 

Retirees were part of the group that account for the second largest amount of foreign arrivals. No number and not mentioned if that is the second largest group.

no mentioning of the third group.

 

While the stats didn’t specifically identify if tourists had entered under the Special Tourist Visa or Thailand Elite program, they are likely included in the listed as “People under special agreement such as businessmen, tourists & retirees (24,852)”.

Those married to Thai nationals were the 4th largest group, with some 9,618 in total arriving in Thailand, while students and ‘other’ made up the remaining arrivals

 

Question.  I see a first group, retirees are in the second group, So that is in the group of 24.852 . A fourth group is mentioned but that are, if you calculate 16281. What kind of people are that?