Chinese tourists will return to Thailand in October - "great opportunity" say tourism chiefs

[mr_lob]

This should be a ''warning'' , not an ''announcement''

[Destiny1990]

And it even gets better cautious estimated  calculations are monthly 5,467,533 visitors x 16,456 bht daily ???????? net profits.????

[RedRoadRunner]

What are these guys smoking ?

 

[4MyEgo]

1 hour ago, club said:

Your right. What they would not do is buy a better vaccine

 

To little too late.

[Spellforce]

Chinese TOURISTS ??? Impossible, because untill 31th december 2021 they will all have to do a 2-3 weeks quarantine when they'll go back to China.

[Guderian]

Chinese tourists will return to Thailand in October 2022

 

Fixed it for you, lol!

[ThailandRyan]

23 minutes ago, crazykopite said:

More BS from these clowns it was only a week ago that China stated it’s borders would remain closed until 2022 the Phuket sandcastle is an absolute joke having to pay for everything even before you set foot into the country the only people coming will be fools with money to waste . I can’t wait for tomorrow to arrive to see the PM greeting the so called 1,000s who have apparently booked to come to Phuket 

It will be a mass media event shown around the world.  My daughter in the US wants to head to Phuket but when she saw the logistics, she instead said, next year Dad, next year, but maybe you can come home before then for a vacation and we will take the sailboat out to the island here in Washington.

[inThailand]

Chinese tourists will return to Thailand in October.

 

Not unless there are no quarantine requirements, zero restrictions, no additional costs and of course if Thailand has vaccined the country. 

So, they ain't coming in October. 

[IamNoone88]

I don't miss the Chinese for a second. They got us into this mess and everyone has suffered as a result. Their vaccine is of the lowest standards. I certainly hope that their return can be prolonged as long as possible. They should not be heralded as economic saviours. 

[Selatan]

42 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Next Headline

"Tourism officials welcome Chinese tourists to Thailand as they tour the locked down work sites and locked in migrant workers infected with Covid, reminding China of it's past when they locked workers into their work camps like slaves"

 

They have repeatedly said for almost a year that the Chinese would be returning and each time we here on this forum have had the same comments most here have now.  JUst waiting for their return so we can have the daily entertainment of the following.  Welcome to Thailand....NOT

The one crapping on the street in Chinatown was found to be a local autistic boy, not a Chinese tourist.

[jaiyen]

We all remember when the Thai tour operators were very vocal in slagging the Chinese tourists cos they never spent any of their money in Thai businesses, they were dirty, bad mannered and very loud. spitting in the street, and they didn't want them here.  Bit different now !!

[Selatan]

14 minutes ago, IamNoone88 said:

I don't miss the Chinese for a second. They got us into this mess and everyone has suffered as a result. Their vaccine is of the lowest standards. I certainly hope that their return can be prolonged as long as possible. They should not be heralded as economic saviours. 

You are their competitors, totally logical for you not to miss them and your opinion has 0 value. But tourist-dependent businesses love them.

[toolpush]

1 hour ago, Laughing Gravy said:

Absolute nonsense and this clown should be held responsible for his lies and when this do not happen.

 

As someone who is in China having to complete 3 weeks mandatory quarantine (2 weeks in a state hotel) puts everyone off.

 

Coupled with an increase in media FUD that China is the safest place right now, all Chinese I know, don't wan't to leave and take the risk of traveling to Thailand or anywhere else for a holiday, especially to a country that is riddled with COVID and has a poor vaccination programme.

 

This news article should be filed in the section of pure fantasy.

Agreed. I am in China as well. Have been since February this time. The locals I deal with all tell me that their government is indicating that they don't expect travel issues to change until at least next summer. I had to quarantine in entry city two weeks, then destination city another week and then a final week of observation before I could go to work. What kind of dope are those Thai officials smoking? Hopium?

[Selatan]

5 minutes ago, jaiyen said:

We all remember when the Thai tour operators were very vocal in slagging the Chinese tourists cos they never spent any of their money in Thai businesses, they were dirty, bad mannered and very loud. spitting in the street, and they didn't want them here.  Bit different now !!

Not sure why so many people believe in the nonsense that businesses in Thailand don't earn anything from Chinese tourists.

[tukadadoll]

2 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

 

It's a bit confusing, Thailand is on a list of 75 countries published 3 June. 

 

Non-essential travel is prohibited.

 

Think they have a 14 day quarantine in-bound (returning to China).

 

Maybe by October this will change?

 

 

Didn't we all agree to stop posting this meaningless rubbish. Slow news day?

[toolpush]

40 minutes ago, Caldera said:

The Chinese government hasn't given any indication so far that Chinese citizens who return to China won't have to quarantine at state facilities any longer.

 

This quarantine upon return, by itself, limits the number of outbound Chinese tourists dramatically.

 

Nothing the Thai government can do about this, but the fact that Thailand will increasingly be seen as a high risk destination sure won't help.

They don't quarantine in state facilities. Anyone entering China is taken to a 2 or 3 star hotel or even sometimes a 4 star. You have no choice which hotel and the "guides" in the buses wont even tell you where you are headed. You end up at your hotel and that is where you stay; be it a dump or be it a luxury facility. A fellow worker was the only Guilao (foreigner) on a bus and when it arrived at the destination hotel, the Chinese travellers refused to get off the bus. He said there was a near riot because the hotel was a dump. The police were called and they talked about half the people off. They told my friend to stay on the bus. It then went to a different hotel which was even more of a dump. Chinese people know what awaits them upon return to China and they aren't interested.

[Jimbo2014]

I can barely contain my excitement ????

 

As my wife noted.  90 days to open the boarder, 91 days to close it again.   

[Selatan]

4 minutes ago, toolpush said:

They don't quarantine in state facilities. Anyone entering China is taken to a 2 or 3 star hotel or even sometimes a 4 star. You have no choice which hotel and the "guides" in the buses wont even tell you where you are headed. You end up at your hotel and that is where you stay; be it a dump or be it a luxury facility. A fellow worker was the only Guilao (foreigner) on a bus and when it arrived at the destination hotel, the Chinese travellers refused to get off the bus. He said there was a near riot because the hotel was a dump. The police were called and they talked about half the people off. They told my friend to stay on the bus. It then went to a different hotel which was even more of a dump. Chinese people know what awaits them upon return to China and they aren't interested.

Chinese city of Guangzhou to build giant Covid-19 quarantine facility with 5,000 spaces for international travellers

 

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The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou is planning to build a massive quarantine complex for international travellers and local residents from high-risk areas because local hotels cannot cope with highly transmissible Covid-19 mutations such as the Delta variant, according to leading respiratory expert Zhong Nanshan.

 

“There will be 5,000 isolated spaces and the people there will be isolated according to strict rules to make sure they do not infect each other,” Zhong told a group interview on Friday.

 

Zhong said that after observing the transmissibility of the Delta variant in Guangdong province during the past month, he was convinced that using hotels as quarantine facilities would not be enough to stop the spread of the disease given it was a lot more transmissible than other pre-existing variants.

 

[dave moir]

2 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Not true.. Chinese people said in a survey some time back, that they only wanted to come to Thailand if it was 6 months covid free... besides that Chinese people have to get in quarantine if they come back for a few weeks... So fake news again. The Chinese don't come in October.. maybe they want to come yes, but not in a short term

That's after they started all this <deleted> in the first place!????????????????

[metisdead]

Off topic posts and the related replies have been removed. 

[Misterwhisper]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Prayuth Chan-o-cha's grand reopening of the country in 120 days.

So it was "in 120 days" 2 weeks ago?

Then it was "in 120 days" last week?

And today it still is "in 120 days"?

 

What is that, a Thai-style Groundhog Day?

[Forza2002]

At the current rate of injections there isn't a chance in hell of the borders opening in mid Oct. To date only 6.9M have had the 1st jab, which represents 13% of the adult population of ~53M... To meet the Czars target, the 1st jab would need to be ~344K per day. They have only bettered that number twice (7th, 8th June) which was the 1st 2 days of the mass vaccine rollout. The weekend numbers for injections are a joke...

[Cake Monster]

3 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Not true.. Chinese people said in a survey some time back, that they only wanted to come to Thailand if it was 6 months covid free... besides that Chinese people have to get in quarantine if they come back for a few weeks... So fake news again. The Chinese don't come in October.. maybe they want to come yes, but not in a short term

The Chinese also said that they would not travel to any  Country that had not given at least 70 % of its population full Vaccinations.

[wombat]

2 hours ago, Surelynot said:

Well I, for one, wake up every morning and look forward to TAT's announcements..............

absolutely, the daily dose of optimistic optimism from the hub of optimism makes my day...

[TheFishman1]

I would like to know when I can get the vaccine TIT

[ChipButty]

As long as there quarantine either side of the boarders the Chinese are not coming most Chinese guest I have dealt with over the years dont come for more than a week and like to move around

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

A deputy at the Tourism Council of Thailand told Thai Rath that Chinese tourists would start returning to Thailand from October.

To a largely un vaccinated nation... they will be confined to certain areas and good luck with the paperwork.

 

[sambum]

4 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

 

It's a bit confusing, Thailand is on a list of 75 countries published 3 June. 

 

Non-essential travel is prohibited.

 

Think they have a 14 day quarantine in-bound (returning to China).

 

Maybe by October this will change?

 

 

 

"A deputy at the Tourism Council of Thailand told Thai Rath that Chinese tourists would start returning to Thailand from October. "

 

Maybe nobody told the deputy about the above restrictions?

[Alex Sharp]

3 hours ago, beano2274 said:

Thought China had banned travel 

That's the news I got from my son in China last week. China are extending "closed" borders for a further year.

[sambum]

15 minutes ago, wombat said:

absolutely, the daily dose of optimistic optimism from the hub of optimism makes my day...

 

That and the usual nonsense spouted by Anutin makes my ribs ache!