BANGKOK (NNT) - The Prime Minister is set to decide whether or not plans to welcome back foreign tourists will proceed as scheduled, when he heads a meeting of the economic committee set up to address the impact of the COVID-19 virus, tomorrow (June 4, 2021).

 

Prime Minister’s Office Spokesperson Anucha Burapachaisri outlined that the meeting will take place on Friday from 1:30pm as a video conference. It will be the second meeting of 2021 and will focus on progress made under the various economic aid programs, implemented to help citizens and businesses, with Rao Chana and soft loan programs to support operations. It will also review the current circumstances to decide if policies should be altered.

 

A key matter will be measures to stimulate investment by attracting high net worth foreign visitors to the country and reopening certain provinces to tourism.

 

Phuket Governor Narong Woonciew and Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand Yuthasak Supasorn have already spoken to the Tourism Council of Thailand along with business operators and citizens in Phuket to hear their views on reopening to vaccinated tourists and not requiring quarantine. The plan has been dubbed the “Phuket Sandbox” and is slated to begin on July 1.

 

Yuthasak stated that all sides are ready to again open Phuket to fully vaccinated visitors to reinvigorate the province’s economy as it is nearing its vaccination target. The information is to be presented to the economic committee to inform its consideration of plans made back in March. The Tourism Authority of Thailand is to play a marketing role in the plan, targeting 129,000 tourists to Phuket over the three-month period from July to September; it also has medium and long term targets.

 

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The only thing prime minister Pinocchio should be doing is welcoming vaccines from the United States which he is incapable of producing or procuring. 

Really hard to find anybody less competent than the TAT, but oh boy they managed.

His government has successfully destroyed and put out of business most of the restaurant, entertainment, and tourism venues.  Good job!

What's there to come to Thailand for?  Not much.
Unending new regulations and restriction as well as streets lined with shuttered shops where the owners have finally tossed in the towel and called it quits. 
This should be TAT's new campaign:
Come To Depression Thailand 
By the end of the year the public will understand that Prayut and friends have permanently killed the goose that laid the tourism eggs.

Businesses can't recover until tourism does,
and
tourism can't recover until businesses do. 
Good luck ending that downward spiral into the toilet.

A great place to have the meeting, on the very bottom of the sea... 

In reality it is not going to make much difference whether they "officially open" on July 1st or not. There will be very few tourists plus a handful of returning expats, which is not going to make much difference to the Phuket tourist economy anyway.

Edited June 3, 20215 yr by Phuketshrew

20 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

, targeting 129,000 tourists to Phuket

Go on have a real crack. Round it up to 130,000 

PM to lead is a contradiction for starters ???? 

 

36 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

A key matter will be measures to stimulate investment by attracting high net worth foreign visitors to the country and reopening certain provinces to tourism

Not that old chestnut again...... Boring, do they not realize it aint gonna happen, regardless of how much they talk about it.

23 minutes ago, RotBenz8888 said:

A great place to have the meeting, on the very bottom of the sea... 

To keep an eye on the submarines. 

23 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Go on have a real crack. Round it up to 130,000 

Just make it a Cool million, that's the ticket, and you can hand out a card like below with the $1 dollar first night to make them feel welcome.

 

That rules out 90% of potential tourists then....."high net worth foreign visitors" where do they get these  ideas from?

5 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Just make it a Cool million, that's the ticket, and you can hand out a card like below with the $1 dollar first night to make them feel welcome.

Don't the Yanks have green card in some sort of lottery?.

Perhaps Thai Gov could do the same for farang covid jab.

129000 tourists for march?  You're aiming for the stars, that's for sure.  

I'll be you 129,000 US dollars that it won't happen.  I'll also bet you you won't land on the moon either.  

7 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Don't the Yanks have green card in some sort of lottery?.

Perhaps Thai Gov could do the same for farang covid jab.

Yes the famous Visa lottery, sort of like the Permanent Resident for a foreigner here in Thailand where many apply but only a small amount are assigned every year.

48 minutes ago, RotBenz8888 said:

A great place to have the meeting, on the very bottom of the sea... 

The only hope is a crack in the glass.????

 

59 minutes ago, Shuya said:

Really hard to find anybody less competent than the TAT, but oh boy they managed.

Not so hard, the PM and his clowns top that easily.????

Early polls indicate that Europeans will go to Southern Europe for holidays while half of the population will take holidays in their own country. Asia is no longer on the agenda.

1 hour ago, RotBenz8888 said:

A great place to have the meeting, on the very bottom of the sea... 

it is the new sub he is going to buy this year !!!

Just now, tinca tinca said:

it is the new sub he is going to buy this year !!!

Yes, that's just the dining Area for the command staff.

Bozo flapping his gums again. Can’t even be honest about getting proper vaccines into Thailand that the majority would prefer to jab with. CM looks like a shambles for how many places are closed shut forever totally empty. The only thing he is driving is thailand into the ground. 

covid 101, people from countries that have an advanced vaccine program with effective vaccines will only be visiting other countries that have an advanced vaccine program with effective vaccines, that leaves Thailand out of the game

3 minutes ago, smedly said:

covid 101, people from countries that have an advanced vaccine program with effective vaccines will only be visiting other countries that have an advanced vaccine program with effective vaccines

 

Not so sure about this, unless there are explicit restrictions on where a person can or can't travel. Plenty of younger people, especially once vaccinated, just dgaf about Covid anymore.

I've just found a place in London selling their old open top tour buses, they can ship me one for ( I was surprised ) very little dosh, I can get her brother - read husband, to drive it, the Mrs can be the clippy, I have ordered a ticket machine, she can record the Thai commentary & me the English version, and we can do a slow crawl like they do in London around all the famous shuttered businesses.

 

Wot you fink ????

 

Do fully vaccinated tourists still need the 24/7 traceable wristbands for “monitoring” purposes?

4 hours ago, The Cipher said:

 

Not so sure about this, unless there are explicit restrictions on where a person can or can't travel. Plenty of younger people, especially once vaccinated, just dgaf about Covid anymore.

the UK for example has restrictions on return - yes people can travel to Thailand but must quarantine for 14 days when they go back home - so it is not just about Thailand letting people in and their rules  

46 minutes ago, smedly said:

the UK for example has restrictions on return - yes people can travel to Thailand but must quarantine for 14 days when they go back home - so it is not just about Thailand letting people in and their rules  

 

10 days home quarantine on amber with pre paid tests. Although Thailand looks heading to the red list - mandatory 1750 quid for a naff hotel near heathrow thats usually good enough for a quick rest for 45 quid

10 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The Tourism Authority of Thailand is to play a marketing role in the plan, targeting 129,000 tourists to Phuket over the three-month period from July to September; it also has medium and long term targets.

OK, so that's say 43,000 tourists a month. Can they please show the evidence of that actually happening ? Can they show the 43,000 bums of flights booked ? Hotels booked by those same 43,000 bums ? No, thought not !

 

We all wish them well, but we all know reality from Jackanory 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

OK, so that's say 43,000 tourists a month. Can they please show the evidence of that actually happening ? Can they show the 43,000 bums of flights booked ? Hotels booked by those same 43,000 bums ? No, thought not !

 

We all wish them well, but we all know reality from Jackanory 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They will likely be counting stray cats, migrant workers, dogs, iguanas, etc as tourists.  

I think the Prime Minister should concentrate on  vaccinating the Thai population . No real change to the tourist industry until that happens .