Popular Post webfact Posted August 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2021 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. Discover Cigna’s range of health insurance solutions created for expats and local nationals living in Thailand - click to view -- © Copyright ASEAN NOW 2021-08-20 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post alyx Posted August 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2021 OMG we are back on this track ? 2 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Karma80 Posted August 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2021 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. 9 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticky Rice Balls Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 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 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post law ling Posted August 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2021 Thailand seems to refuse to come to grips with the enormity of the current crisis ... ostriches and sand come to mind. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RotBenz8888 Posted August 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2021 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. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Laughing Gravy Posted August 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2021 (edited) 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 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanmyintmaung Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blumpie Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 1 hour ago, alyx said: OMG we are back on this track ? This has been regurgitating. For a YEAR AND A HALF!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chalawaan Posted August 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2021 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! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mtls2005 Posted August 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2021 Nominee for best comedy in 2021: TAT's "Bubble Bursts" episode. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Meeseeks Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Will regular, violent political protests discourage visitors from coming or will people coming from other authoritarian regimes not care? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalawaan Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 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. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Blumpie Posted August 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2021 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. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtls2005 Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cake Monster Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samtam Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bluespunk Posted August 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2021 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. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post StayinThailand2much Posted August 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2021 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? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Pravda Posted August 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2021 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. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post StayinThailand2much Posted August 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2021 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. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombat Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 5 hours ago, Sticky Rice Balls said: Or am i still just a dirty farang? #FreeSoapies when have you not been? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caldera Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 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? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronster Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Gonna start running out of countries to name soon ! Need start naming planets the way these delusional bunch are going ! ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ukrules Posted August 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2021 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. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilly07 Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phetphet Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 And the Chinese arrivals all protected with that super effective Sinovac. What could possibly go wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussieroaming Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 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". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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