Failure to quickly vaccinate 450,000 people could see Pattaya high season delayed until OCT 2022

[webfact]

 

The acting head of the Chonburi Tourist Business Association told the Thai media that he will be visiting with Thailand's tourism minister next week to discuss plans for "Pattaya Move On" - the latest buzzwords for the reopening of the resort to foreign tourism. 

 

Targets for the plan are mostly Asian including golfers and families and involve only a sealed route in Bang Lamung and Sattahip districts. 

 

It is hoped that up to 20,000 foreign tourists will visit each month from August 1st.

 

But Thanet Supharothatrangsi will be taking a stark message to Pipat Ratchakitprakan - get 900,000 doses of vaccine or the next tourist high season will be October 2022 not this year. 

 

Thanet outlined his plan for the two Pattaya districts which will be broadly in line with the proposed Phuket Sandbox scheme due to start next month. 

 

He said he hoped that between 10,000 and 20,000 foreign tourists will come from August 1st.

 

They will need to be in a "sealed area", stay in Pattaya for 14 days before going elsewhere and possibly have to quarantine for the first three days at one Pattaya hotel

after a negative test.

 

All tourists will have to have been vaccinated prior to arrival.

 

He said the Asian targets were Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. Target groups were students, people interested in fitness programs, golfers, families and retirees. 

 

Long haul targets included the UK, Germany, Russia, Scandinavia and the Netherlands including many countries in the Eastern bloc where families and holidaymakers were being wooed. 

 

But he noted that so far only 60,000 doses of vaccine had been administered in the area. 

 

He said that 900,000 doses were needed by July to vaccinate 450,000 people. 

 

If that is not done, he said, it could jeopardize this year's high season that is set to begin from October 1st this year.

 

That would mean the next high season for Pattaya would not be until October 1st 2022. 

 

With the vaccine rollout stalling in Thailand amid a whole host of supply and production problems that eventuality for Pattaya must be a very real consideration, notes Thaivisa. 

 

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[scubascuba3]

They've blown it for this high season, maybe next 

[actonion]

2021's  High season has been jeopadized  a long time ago, the speed of vaccinations here it looks like high season 2022  is jeopardized too...

 

Turn the lights out before leaving 

[darksidedog]

11 minutes ago, webfact said:

They will need to be in a "sealed area", stay in Pattaya for 14 days before going elsewhere and possibly have to quarantine for the first three days at one Pattaya hotel

I am not sure which is furthest from reality. Expecting tourists to agree to such conditions, or getting 450,000 folks round here vaccinated in the next few weeks?

[tifino]

... probably quicken things up by using the same needle! 

[NCC1701A]

i guess the Book of Revelations was right after all. 

[Skallywag]

45 minutes ago, webfact said:

get 900,000 doses of vaccine 

For a city with only 120,000 people that seems a bit on the high side

[RichardColeman]

I think it safe to predict no high season this year, and a dribble next year. That said , if all I had to do was flash my vaccination card , I'd book tomorrow.

 

If Pattaya is closed for an entire another year, the area's high season my be devastated by its own economic devastation !

 

 

[bkk6060]

"in Pattaya for 14 days before going elsewhere and possibly have to quarantine for the first three days at one Pattaya hotel

after a negative test."

 

"All tourists will have to have been vaccinated prior to arrival."

 

 

Yet, people from infection central Bangkok probably mostly unvaccinated are currently free to come to Pattaya without any restrictions.  Lots of Bangkok license plates here on the weekends.

Crazy.

 

[brewsterbudgen]

6 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

"in Pattaya for 14 days before going elsewhere and possibly have to quarantine for the first three days at one Pattaya hotel

after a negative test."

 

"All tourists will have to have been vaccinated prior to arrival."

 

 

Yet, people from infection central Bangkok probably mostly unvaccinated are currently free to come to Pattaya without any restrictions.  Lots of Bangkok license plates here on the weekends.

Crazy.

 

 

So close Pattaya off to everyone except locals?  That will really help Pattaya's businesses! ????

[petermik]

7 hours ago, Skallywag said:

For a city with only 120,000 people that seems a bit on the high side

don,t forget the soi dogs.

[Geoffggi]

Who in their right minds will come while all entertainment places are closed along with dining establishments and bar areas plus one must wear a mask or face further fines. When you read through all the requirements it makes a mockery of the word HOLIDAY ..........................LOL 

[khunPer]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He said he hoped that between 10,000 and 20,000 foreign tourists will come from August 1st.

Haven't we most of the time been reading about October 1st as the sandbox model opening for Pattaya...????

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, khunPer said:

Haven't we most of the time been reading about October 1st as the sandbox model opening for Pattaya...????

I thought the idea for Pattaya got knocked back....

[Geoffggi]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

But Thanet Supharothatrangsi will be taking a stark message to Pipat Ratchakitprakan - get 900,000 doses of vaccine or the next tourist high season will be October 2022 not this year. 

 

Now don't go upsetting Phuket ...........LOL

[MasterBaker]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

It is hoped that up to 20,000 foreign tourists will visit each month from August 1st.

 

ow would they get there?  by high speed railway link of cause, because ti would be completed by that time

[Destiny1990]

2 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

"in Pattaya for 14 days before going elsewhere and possibly have to quarantine for the first three days at one Pattaya hotel

after a negative test."

 

"All tourists will have to have been vaccinated prior to arrival."

 

 

Yet, people from infection central Bangkok probably mostly unvaccinated are currently free to come to Pattaya without any restrictions.  Lots of Bangkok license plates here on the weekends.

Crazy.

 

there is stil some money to be made in foreigners even vaccinated. 4x Testing, quarantines jada jada,  meanwhile this huge bunch of unvaccinated with covid infected Locals doesn’t seem to be a concern.

[FalangJaiDee]

This is window dressing for the actual plan which is to starve farang oriented night life to death and create a sterilized, consumerist Asian oriented hub of “face gaining” shopping sprees. 
 

The restrictions that seem arbitrary are not

[RichardColeman]

Bang Saray today !

 

No wonder Thailand is broke

 

[Ventenio]

I'm getting sick and tired of this COVID!!!!!   

 

Pattaya has been my home for 40-years.  Let me share my memories:

 

1,873 good friends who enjoy spending an hour with me

36,500   record for beers drank in a year

187,387 number of new workers who tell me I'm hansum

173,239,943 sexpats I've met who said they are here for the pad thai

1,938,498  clinic visits

 

lol

[redwood1]

16 minutes ago, FalangJaiDee said:

This is window dressing for the actual plan which is to starve farang oriented night life to death and create a sterilized, consumerist Asian oriented hub of “face gaining” shopping sprees. 
 

The restrictions that seem arbitrary are not

 

I cant disagree with any of this..........One thing to remember everything that is happening is by design......ALL OF IT.......... 

[redwood1]

3 hours ago, darksidedog said:

I am not sure which is furthest from reality. Expecting tourists to agree to such conditions, or getting 450,000 folks round here vaccinated in the next few weeks?

LOADS AND LOADs of Thais are wary of the vaxes now and don't want it ....So I doubt they will ever achieve their goals...

[smedly]

what are they smokin, what planet are they on  

 

LMAO 

 

total nonsense 

[redwood1]

3 hours ago, actonion said:

2021's  High season has been jeopadized  a long time ago, the speed of vaccinations here it looks like high season 2022  is jeopardized too...

 

Turn the lights out before leaving 

High season is finished forever if they cant stop flip flopping on the rules as often as the wind changes direction..

[smedly]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

If that is not done, he said, it could jeopardize this year's high season that is set to begin from October 1st this year.

are they really talking about high season ??

 

oh my god

[champers]

Local Governors now have permission to buy vaccines themselves. I wonder how this is panning out for Pattaya.

[tgw]

1 minute ago, champers said:

Local Governors now have permission to buy vaccines themselves. I wonder how this is panning out for Pattaya.

 

great news if this is true, maybe it will be possible to get some Pfizer?

[Darkside Gray]

4 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

They've blown it for this high season, maybe next 

Wont be a high season this year or next, why would people come?

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

But Thanet Supharothatrangsi will be taking a stark message to Pipat Ratchakitprakan - get 900,000 doses of vaccine or the next tourist high season will be October 2022 not this year.

Pipat can't do his own job let alone Anutins.. he doesn't control vaccines.

[Dart12]

OOOORRRR, they could use the safe and approved drug that is available to simply treat anyone that gets covid?

In  the USA, you can go on a "Jab crawl" poker run... where they are giving out

free baby sitting,

free beer,

free lotto tickets,

free liquor at the barber shop,

free donuts,

free fries,

free Marijuana,

and even free guns,
FREE GUNS, DRUGS, N BOOZE!!!

(all to entice lower income demographic).

I guess cause 60% of population has said thanks but no thanks?