Thailand’s Ministry of Health is working with the Ministry of Tourism and Sports to prepare guidelines to allow visitors from Thailand’s neighbouring countries, such as Laos, Myanmar and Malaysia, to take one-day trips to Thailand as the country prepares to reopen to tourism on November 1st.

 

Today (Tuesday), Deputy Public Health Minister Sathit Pitutecha said discussions are being held and plans are being drawn up to allow tourists to travel over the Malaysian border into Hat Yai in Thailand’s southern province of Songkhla, and tourists from Laos to travel to the north-eastern province of Nong Khai. Tourists crossing the Thai-Myanmar border will be able to visit Tak province.

 

He also explained the preparations for the reopening of Thailand on November 1st, saying foreign arrivals must:

 

1. Be arriving from a low-risk country on Thailand’s approved list.
2. Be fully inoculated with a minimum of two doses of a recognised vaccine
3. Have negative results from a RT-PCR test taken no more than 72 hours prior to the trip
4. Take another RT-PCR test within 24 hours of arrival in Thailand
5. Have a minimum of US$50,000 health insurance coverage while in Thailand
6. Have written or electronic confirmation of hotel bookings 

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thailand-aims-to-draw-neighbours-for-one-day-trips/

 

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so foreigners from more remote countries 2 jabs, 2 pcr, minimum 1 night AQ hotel for a minimum 3300b, or sandbox 7 days for minimum 2800b, or ASQ for 7-14 days for $$$, and some neighbours, from highly infected countries just 1 day trips to sell their merchandise across border

32 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

prepare guidelines to allow visitors from Thailand’s neighbouring countries, such as Laos, Myanmar and Malaysia, to take one-day trips to Thailand as the country prepares to reopen to tourism on November 1st.

 

33 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

• Be arriving from a low-risk country on Thailand’s approved list.
• Be fully inoculated with a minimum of two doses of a recognised vaccine
• Have negative results from a RT-PCR test taken no more than 72 hours prior to the trip
• Take another RT-PCR test within 24 hours of arrival in Thailand

Their own rules and new regulations that insist with testing 72 hours prior to arrival and then within 24 hours after arriving are at complete polar opposites, if they come for the day and leave as the PCR results will not arrive until after they are already back across the border.  Realistically by the time the folks have come, spent a day here and then are leaving they expect another test and have results before they leave, this would of course mean a two day trip and not one.?  insanity.  So say a family from Vientiane wants to cross the border in the morning and go shopping in Udon, visit family for the night and return to Laos the next morning how in gods green earth are they expected to have taken a PCR test and received the results back......yes I know flogging a dead horse here. 

So have they given up on trying to attract (lure in TAT's words) multi

millionaires , and are now just going to invite the neighbors .........what 

a turn around.

regards worgeordie 

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

to allow visitors from Thailand’s neighbouring countries, such as Laos, Myanmar and Malaysia, to take one-day trips to Thailand

OMG - what on earth are they thinking, Bt6000 spent in quarantine - how wonderful, that is sure to be a huge hit

O dear.

Neighbours please come over, do a few tests, spend 1 night in an overpriced quarantine hotel and <deleted> off.

 

Probably they have now realised that their ambitious figure of tourists will never be met and now, they want to replace farangs with people from neighbouring countries.

 

What a joke.

I've wondered what Malaysian tourists actually come for.  Not the weather for sure, food can't be better and they have beaches of their own.  Beer and sex?

47 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

 

Their own rules and new regulations that insist with testing 72 hours prior to arrival and then within 24 hours after arriving are at complete polar opposites, if they come for the day and leave as the PCR results will not arrive until after they are already back across the border.  Realistically by the time the folks have come, spent a day here and then are leaving they expect another test and have results before they leave, this would of course mean a two day trip and not one.?  insanity.  So say a family from Vientiane wants to cross the border in the morning and go shopping in Udon, visit family for the night and return to Laos the next morning how in gods green earth are they expected to have taken a PCR test and received the results back......yes I know flogging a dead horse here. 

Just more jumbled nonsense from the children, who look like men, smell like men and sometimes dress like men, but rarely behave like full grown men and are incapable of creating intelligent policy. Such blazing stupidity. 

 

It appears they are finally coming to grips with the extent of the economic devastation their cowardly sabotage of tourism has caused and heads are reeling over it! Utter circus clowns. They are flailing in the wind. 

 

Resign. Resign now. You creeps are in way over your heads. The whole lot of you. 

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You would think that with the hundreds of different plans these brainiacs come up with.......

 

At least one of them would not suck.

23 minutes ago, Upnotover said:

I've wondered what Malaysian tourists actually come for.  Not the weather for sure, food can't be better and they have beaches of their own.  Beer and sex?

Shopping for Thai products, the same as those from Myanmar and Laos.  They do love the Mama noodles, 3 ladies fish in the red sauce, and the things they can not buy in their own countries.  We shop at Makro once a month and fill a truck up that heads to Myanmar and delivers the goods to the GF's mother who run a small store in her village.  it does run a few thousand baht to ship it up, but the savings covers that and then the prices are adjusted accordingly.  Every month the mother makes enough to replenish the stocks sold and then put money away after paying her expenses.

1 hour ago, internationalism said:

sell their merchandise across border

Visit the HY knocking shops, drink a bunch of booze.

What a way to import your cheap labour....

What nonsense. 1 day tourists from neighboring countries such as Laos, Malaysia come for a day to shop and must do their PCR test in Thailand on arrival. Before the PCR result is available, they will be home again. Who thinks up such nonsense?

2 minutes ago, tomacht8 said:

What nonsense. 1 day tourists from neighboring countries such as Laos, Malaysia come for a day to shop and do their PCR test in Thailand on arrival. Before the PCR result is available, they will be home again. Who thinks up such nonsense?

so just when they are about to board the bus, boat, train or whatever .....  it's ...  oh i'm sorry folks, we have to get back to the border to check out again  .       Lol

3 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Thailand’s Ministry of Health is working with the Ministry of Tourism and Sports to prepare guidelines to allow visitors from Thailand’s neighbouring countries, such as Laos, Myanmar and Malaysia, to take one-day trips to Thailand as the country prepares to reopen to tourism on November 1st.

What can go wrong with that?

2 hours ago, Upnotover said:

I've wondered what Malaysian tourists actually come for.  Not the weather for sure, food can't be better and they have beaches of their own.  Beer and sex?

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/illicit-sex-trade-thrives-in-yala-amid-thailand-south-insurgency-874651

3 minutes ago, PoorSucker said:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/illicit-sex-trade-thrives-in-yala-amid-thailand-south-insurgency-874651

Thanks for that.  As I suspected.  And others say it is for Mama noodles.

 

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That must be the most accurate proclamation ever from the clowns in charge....

Maybe each of these people entering Thailand on 'day trips', undertaken from neightbouring countries, will be counted by TAT as being 'tourists'  and 2022 will be hailed as the best year for tourism numbers Thailand has ever had. 555

16 minutes ago, Upnotover said:

Thanks for that.  As I suspected.  And others say it is for Mama noodles.

Plenty of Malaysian families visit Hat Yai for the food, nearby beaches and shopping opportunities. The mongers mostly stay closer to home in Dannok, Betong or Sungai Kolok.

Oh dear.. bit late to think about this initiative.. they're already here illegally.. just walk across the border.. daily statistics show the majority of new covid infections are illegal migrants.. amazing Thailand.. ????????

I am begining to wonder..............Is the real motive of the government to completely destroy the tourist industry?

 

I can't see why they want to, but I can see that everything they come up with is achieving that aim.

5 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

I am begining to wonder..............Is the real motive of the government to completely destroy the tourist industry?

 

I can't see why they want to, but I can see that everything they come up with is achieving that aim.

Completely agree and I have said this right from the start, the prudes in charge don't like the reality of why Thailand is known all over the world for it's 'nightlife'

 

By destroying millions of the peasants lives and income they can assuage their face and hide their embarrassment

 

Covid is a gift for them, they and their ilk keep getting richer and they fortify their position by pretending it's for the greater good, they are loving covid...

So, not millions of affluent visitors from China and the West then?  

5 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

 

Their own rules and new regulations that insist with testing 72 hours prior to arrival and then within 24 hours after arriving are at complete polar opposites, if they come for the day and leave as the PCR results will not arrive until after they are already back across the border.  Realistically by the time the folks have come, spent a day here and then are leaving they expect another test and have results before they leave, this would of course mean a two day trip and not one.?  insanity.  So say a family from Vientiane wants to cross the border in the morning and go shopping in Udon, visit family for the night and return to Laos the next morning how in gods green earth are they expected to have taken a PCR test and received the results back......yes I know flogging a dead horse here. 

The Devil's in the details.

One day trips from a foreign destination, these people are clueless to the bone. At least they could have said a mid weekend trips.

 

Perhaps they mistaken the Myanmar people doing a Mae Sai trip to the newly opened Makro down the road? As well Vientiane people doing some shopping in Nong Khai.

1 hour ago, djayz said:

So, not millions of affluent visitors from China and the West then?  

Not due till a week next Thursday I've heard.

The flaw in this nutcase plan is that they will be opening the borders to people for 1 day trips that 90% wont return from, but just use it for legally crossing !

 

As for the link as kids having to have PCR tests, imagine arriving and your kids refusing the tests !

6 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Thailand’s Ministry of Health is working with the Ministry of Tourism and Sports to prepare guidelines to allow visitors from Thailand’s neighbouring countries, such as Laos, Myanmar and Malaysia, to take one-day trips to Thailand

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