SAMUI (NNT) - The president of the Tourism Association of Koh Samui, said today that Samui Plus is already a successful project. Over 500 tourists have joined the program.

 

It is now a month since the cabinet gave its approval for Samui island to follow the Phuket Sandbox scheme, allowing the “Samui Plus model” to welcome vaccinated foreign tourists to the island.

 

According to the statistics, there are already 500 visitors comprising 320 tourists from European countries, and a further 257 who traveled from Phuket. Of the total number of visitors, two of them were found to have been infected with Covid-19 but had now recovered.

 

A closer look at Chaweng เฉวง beach, reveals tourists who have finished their 14 days of quarantine and returned a negative test result, now enjoying the surrounding area bringing activity to streets and beaches that had been silent for a year.

 

It is expected that more tourists will be coming to the island almost every day via Bangkok Airways, as 20 tourists flew in yesterday.

 

Ratchaporn Poolsawad, the president of the Tourism Association of Koh Samui, has acknowledged that with the number of tourists still low, it is likely that only about 60 million baht had been spent on the Samui Plus project so far.

 

However, Samui tourism is expected to welcome more tourists who have traveled on from Phuket. He also confirmed that Samui Plus is able to secure safety for all and asks all tourists to maintain the present hygienic measures.

 

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all back to normal then lol

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

It is now a month since the cabinet gave its approval for Samui island to follow the Phuket Sandbox scheme, allowing the “Samui Plus model” to welcome vaccinated foreign tourists to the island.

Does that include yoga teachers?

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Over 500 tourists have joined the program.

Wasn't it reported just the other day on 10 visitors to Samui each day?

Hear we go again another success story bring out the water cannons made up numbers made up figures and more brown envelopes 

This I doubt !

Thats 7 weeks worth of people arriving and from going out on Sunday and driving from one end of island to fishermans village I can tell you it was dead and most places shut . That had nothing to do with it being Sunday either .

Interesting to note the president of the tourist association has the same second name as one of the black nightclub owners where the large outbreak started ! ????

I live on Koh Samui and drove out this morning at about 1000 hours.  The place (Bophut) was as dead as a Dodo.  For those who don't know what a Dodo is, it's an animal that has been extinct for many year......a bit like all the Tourists spots in Thailand.  Things will not improve until this Government gets it's act together on good quality vaccines and other Countries take it off the "at risk list".  Until that happens, the TAT and others can bay all they want and might as well do it to the moon.  There are thousands of shops, restauruants, caffee shops, rental villas and hotels closed.  Personally, I am enjoying the relative quiet of the Island!

OMG the BS these people spew out is unbelievable 

6 hours ago, robertson468 said:

I live on Koh Samui and drove out this morning at about 1000 hours.  The place (Bophut) was as dead as a Dodo.

 

6 hours ago, ronster said:

Thats 7 weeks worth of people arriving and from going out on Sunday and driving from one end of island to fishermans village I can tell you it was dead and most places shut .

The article claims that the tourists give live to Chaweng, so you might have been the wrong place when visiting Bo Phut, which is also Fisherman Village...????

 

And furthermore, 500 extra foreign people on the island might hardly be visible, especially if they stay on the beach in Chaweng, or relax inside the resort, or are touring to some of the amazing islands in the marine park - and some of the them might also have left the island...????

I love Samui. Always brings back good memories. 

3 hours ago, khunPer said:

 

The article claims that the tourists give live to Chaweng, so you might have been the wrong place when visiting Bo Phut, which is also Fisherman Village...????

 

And furthermore, 500 extra foreign people on the island might hardly be visible, especially if they stay on the beach in Chaweng, or relax inside the resort, or are touring to some of the amazing islands in the marine park - and some of the them might also have left the island...????

500 tourists in Samui can hardly make any difference. At this time in terms of covid requirements Thailand just can't compete with places like Turkey, which aims for 25 million tourists this year.

However the northern hemisphere winter is coming in 2-3 months, and warm places like Samui will become far more desirable. The vaccination in Europe and key Asian markets like Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Japan is progressing, so if they drop the quarantine requirements for vaccinated it will be a lot more busier from December onward. No Chinese or Australians probably until March next year.

19 hours ago, gearbox said:

500 tourists in Samui can hardly make any difference. At this time in terms of covid requirements Thailand just can't compete with places like Turkey, which aims for 25 million tourists this year.

However the northern hemisphere winter is coming in 2-3 months, and warm places like Samui will become far more desirable. The vaccination in Europe and key Asian markets like Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Japan is progressing, so if they drop the quarantine requirements for vaccinated it will be a lot more busier from December onward. No Chinese or Australians probably until March next year.

I guess you have to start somewhere. It is a bit like a soft opening that every new Restaurant or Hotel goes through.  Despite not being huge numbers, every tourist who ends up spending some cash on the island helps somehow. Baby steps but at least in the right direction.