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By The Phuket News

 

PHUKET: Tourism stakeholders in Phuket are heralding the landmark approval of the Sputnik vaccine by the Thailand’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) that is set to unleash the Russian market on the southern Thai island, reports Bangkok-based company Delivering Communications Asia.

 

Phuket has for years been a very popular destination with Russian travellers, peaking in 2019 with over 700,000 arrivals in a short five-month period in 2019, all arriving on direct flights from the Russian Federation. A total of 1.4 million Russians visited Phuket in 2019, noted a release by the company issued today.

 

“The traditional snowbird period from November to March is when temperatures drop severely in Russia and also in many parts of northern Europe, signaling travelers to take flight for the tropical chimes and clear blue skies of Phuket,” the release added.

 

 

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Maybe the TAT will throw in a 50% quarantine discount AND a case of vodka to keep them unconscious for 14 days

Unleash and Russians in one sentence is quite scary.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Tourism stakeholders in Phuket are heralding the landmark approval of the Sputnik vaccine by the Thailand’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) that is set to unleash the Russian market on the southern Thai island, reports Bangkok-based company Delivering Communications Asia

I'm sure they are, but are the Russians willing to come?

14 days to 1 month later: Arrival of Russians trough the Phuket sandbox lower than expected.

5 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Maybe the TAT will throw in a 50% quarantine discount AND a case of vodka to keep them unconscious for 14 days

It´s a great idea, but we are talking Russians here, Richard. A case of vodka would just barely keep one Russian unconscious for 4-5 days. Make it 3 cases per arrival and you got a working system. ????

The wording is incredible, “Unleash” as though millions of Russians were lined up waiting to get to Phuket???????????? Are the drugs these guys are on legal?