TAT eyes travel bubble with South Korea - China on radar too

[webfact]

Picture: Bangkok Business News

 

The Tourism of Thailand's new deputy director of marketing in the region said that to mark his elevation he was instructing 17 offices in Asia to work on new marketing plans for the Covid/post Covid era.

 

He said that his main focus would be on China, Hong Kong and Taiwan getting Asians to visit Thailand following on from the restart programs in Phuket and Koh Samui, reported Bangkok Business News.

 

Top of Thanes Petchsuwan's to do list was to meet with the new Chinese ambassador who has arrived in Thailand to ask when the Asian giant will be allowing their nationals to travel.

 

Also he said that he will be investigating the possibility of setting up a travel bubble between Thailand and South Korea so that visitors to either country would not need to quarantine at all. 

 

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[alyx]

OMG we are back on this track ? 

[Karma80]

Hilarious. China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have an absolute covid zero tolerance. Why on earth would they consider allowing people to come to the covid capital of SE Asia?

 

I did 14 days in Korean quarantine. Let me tell you, that's not fun.

[law ling]

Thailand seems to refuse to come to grips with the enormity of the current crisis ... ostriches and sand come to mind.

[RotBenz8888]

TAT is still under the illusion that Thailand is a 0 covid case country, and all other countries in the world would want to establish travel bubbles with them. Delusional at all possible levels. 

[Laughing Gravy]

Delusional once again and should be outed as fake news. Here in China the borders will not be opening anytime soon and the unofficial word is will be way into 2022.

Edited August 20, 2021 by Laughing Gravy

[sanmyintmaung]

1 hour ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

So if I fly to South Korea and vaxxed can I enter without ASQ under this "plan"?

 

Or am i still just a dirty farang?  #FreeSoapies

You can already enter with out ASQ if you are vaccinated by using Phuket sandbox. You don't need any travel bubble agreement.

[Blumpie]

1 hour ago, alyx said:

OMG we are back on this track ? 

This has been regurgitating.  For a YEAR AND A HALF!!!  

[chalawaan]

Bubble my buboe! If the Kiwis and Aussies could not do it with their formerly miniscule numbers, what chance Korea, Thailand (with its walk-in land borders) and China (ditto).

More fantasy. No wonder they're so against drugs, the nimmeranjies cannot think straight stone cold sober!

[mtls2005]

Nominee for best comedy in 2021: TAT's "Bubble Bursts" episode.

 

 

[Mr Meeseeks]

Will regular, violent political protests discourage visitors from coming or will people coming from other authoritarian regimes not care?

[chalawaan]

Unless they get EXTREMELY efficient in terms of processing visitors post-pandemic, they do not have a snowballs chance in hell.

 

The vast economic tourism fallout now underway will lead to more unrest, and more unrest will lead to more bad press, on top of the bureaucratic tourist nightmare they created to pointlessly "stop the plague".

 

I think many tourists will opt for Kabul or Beirut over Pattaya as the next happening hotspot.

[Blumpie]

3 minutes ago, chalawaan said:

Unless they get EXTREMELY efficient in terms of processing visitors post-pandemic, they do not have a snowballs chance in hell.

 

The vast economic tourism fallout now underway will lead to more unrest, and more unrest will lead to more bad press, on top of the bureaucratic tourist nightmare they created to pointlessly "stop the plague".

 

I think many tourists will opt for Kabul or Beirut over Pattaya as the next happening hotspot.

Honestly,

By the time one calendar year passes right now I am willing to bet everything that I own that tourism will be roughly what it is right now.  Nearly zero in the grand scheme of things.  It is too hard to travel anywhere, let alone a country like Thailand.  Insurance costs alone make it quite expensive and completely not worth it.  

[mtls2005]

53 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Will regular, violent political protests discourage visitors from coming or will people coming from other authoritarian regimes not care?

In the past this sort of thing hasn't been an impediment. In fact, reading and listening to visitor's comments at various times since 2006, it's almost a badge of honor.

 

It might be downer if the "temples" and "food" (euphemisms for something else) aren't in full supply though?

 

 

 

 

[Cake Monster]

Have  these people at TAT even considered that the Tourists they are trying to lure may have to undergo a period of Quarantine when they return Home, which will make their Trip a No- No.

[samtam]

14 minutes ago, Cake Monster said:

Have  these people at TAT even considered that the Tourists they are trying to lure may have to undergo a period of Quarantine when they return Home, which will make their Trip a No- No.

21 days in Hong Kong & China.

[Bluespunk]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The Tourism of Thailand's new deputy director of marketing in the region said that to mark his elevation he was instructing 17 offices in Asia to work on new marketing plans

Stopped reading at this point. 

[StayinThailand2much]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Also he said that he will be investigating the possibility of setting up a travel bubble between Thailand and South Korea so that visitors to either country would not need to quarantine at all. 

Wouldn't a bubble between Thailand and North Korea make more sense, politically and ideologically?

[Pravda]

Even tho i

1 minute ago, Bluespunk said:

Stopped reading at this point. 

 

Did you stop watching Seinfeld after season 1? I sure didn't as it only got funnier.

[Bluespunk]

2 minutes ago, Pravda said:

Even tho i

 

Did you stop watching Seinfeld after season 1? I sure didn't as it only got funnier.

Already had my morning laughs after reading the Russians are coming story.

 

 

[StayinThailand2much]

5 minutes ago, Pravda said:

Even tho i

 

Did you stop watching Seinfeld after season 1? I sure didn't as it only got funnier.

The Thailand story is probably more comparable to "The Sopranos", though.

[wombat]

5 hours ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

Or am i still just a dirty farang?  #FreeSoapies

when have you not been?

[Caldera]

When I saw the headline, I thought it's August 2020 all over again... But look at Thailand now, what other country would consider a travel bubble with Thailand right now?

[ronster]

Gonna start running out of countries to name soon ! 
Need start naming planets the way these delusional bunch are going ! ????

[ukrules]

5 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

TAT is still under the illusion that Thailand is a 0 covid case country, and all other countries in the world would want to establish travel bubbles with them. Delusional at all possible levels. 

Yes, all Thailand have proven is that they have no clue at all how to handle something as serious as this.

 

They did very little on vaccines, ordering such a small amount that it would take years to vaccinate everyone - presumably they thought that due to their greatness or some special and magical quality reserved only for Thai people that they won't need the vaccines like all the lesser countries out there.

Well they were wrong, Thailand is just like every other  country on the planet - riddled with disease.

 

[chilly07]

TAT should devote all it's efforts towards vaccine procurement and vaccinations if it really wants to promote tourism. This is the only way tourism can be revived.

[phetphet]

And the Chinese arrivals all protected with that super effective Sinovac. What could possibly go wrong?

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Top of Thanes Petchsuwan's to do list was to meet with the new Chinese ambassador who has arrived in Thailand to ask when the Asian giant will be allowing their nationals to travel.

Thailand is in the biggest mess it's been in for decades... but it's the only one that can't see it.

[Aussieroaming]

Based on recent Thai planning and strategic vaccine rollout failures and sandbox transport issues, If the TAT are responsible for planning the travel bubble then its likely that the bubble will end up being with North Korea and Cameroon. Better to leave the planning to the south Koreans. If you leave it to China then read the contract carefully to make sure that the TAT don't accidently give Thailand to  China as a "gift".

[MrJ2U]

China is not going to be open to tourism with Thailand for the foreseeable future.

 

China is promoting domestic tourism and that's contributing to there economy.

 

Chinas not going to take the chance of getting some "Thailand variant" circulating in there country by allowing a few million tourists to visit.

 

Not worth the risk no matter how much groveling this junta does. 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 20, 2021 by MrJ2U