First week of reopening: Thailand expected to welcome 13,000 foreign tourists - Thailand Pass has opening day problems

[webfact]

Picture: Bangkok Business News

 

Bangkok Business News reported that the Thailand Pass site - the one stop shop for the issuance of the Certificate of Entry and other documentation to enter Thailand - had some opening day problems.

 

10,000 had logged on morning but they only managed to approve 400 yesterday.

 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman and IT specialist Thanee Saengrat said the gremlins were soon sorted and it was now running smoothly.

 

He said that 13,000 foreigners had so far received CoE permission to enter Thailand in the first week of reopening until next Sunday.

 

On the first day the number was 3,795 - 1,052 Thais and 2,743 foreign tourists.

 

Suvarnabhumi handled 2,638, Phuket 1,153 and Don Muang had three passengers from abroad.

 

Topping the CoE list were Germans with 1,520, US nationals 1,236, Brits 1,167, Japanese 892 and Russians 801.

 

Top airports feeding tourists into Thailand were Doha, Singapore, Dubai, Helsinki and Abu Dhabi.

 

Thanee told the media that the signs were good for Thailand's reopening. 

 

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[HaoleBoy]

Latest numbers for registering on "ThailandPass" on Twitter ... not a great %  yet.

 

#ThailandPass has registered requests from 22,779 travelers and approved 4,206 of them

[ThailandRyan]

Seems they should have rolled this out 2 weeks before the November 1 date if they expected the numbers to arrive they predicted.  Of course it is and always will be a work in progress.  Had a friend in the US try it yesterday as she wants to visit, but it kept crashing on her....hmmmm.

[Geoffggi]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Bangkok Business News reported that the Thailand Pass site - the one stop shop for the issuance of the Certificate of Entry and other documentation to enter Thailand - had some opening day problems.

Now who would have thought this would happen ....................LOL

[John Drake]

Were I a tourist, I would never waste my time fumbling around with something this fussy and annoying. I would just go to another country that didn't remind me of trips to East Germany 35 years ago.

[NanaSomchai]

1 hour ago, John Drake said:

Were I a tourist, I would never waste my time fumbling around with something this fussy and annoying. I would just go to another country that didn't remind me of trips to East Germany 35 years ago.

This. I'm contemplating the idea of New Year's countdown in Bali.

[Tropicalevo]

16 minutes ago, NanaSomchai said:

This. I'm contemplating the idea of New Year's countdown in Bali.

Ah yes. Bali. Where they only want quality tourists and some Muslim hardliners are trying for a total alcohol ban.

Sound familiar?

 

https://asiatimes.com/2021/09/bali-wants-rich-not-poor-tourists-after-the-plague/

[Stefanix]

"Opening day problems" only? Has it been sorted out? Can someone confirm?

[ThailandRyan]

Sounds like they also experienced a lack of vehicles to transport the arrivals. Glad it was only 3k plus and not the 7k or 30k.  God forbid it was 100k, folks would still be waiting today to get to where they needed to go for their quarantine....ugly

[EricTh]

 

Only about 3000 tourists on the first day? Only Bangkok and Phuket?

 

Why are there no figures for Chiang Mai?

[ThailandRyan]

Just now, EricTh said:

 

Only about 3000 tourists on the first day? Only Bangkok and Phuket?

 

Why are there no figures for Chiang Mai?

None arrived apparently 

[Bkk Brian]

1 minute ago, EricTh said:

 

Only about 3000 tourists on the first day? Only Bangkok and Phuket?

 

Why are there no figures for Chiang Mai?

First international flight into Chiang Mai is not till next week according to this article

 

first international flight will arrive in Chiang Mai this Friday (November 5th)

[86Tiger]

13 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Sounds like they also experienced a lack of vehicles to transport the arrivals. Glad it was only 3k plus and not the 7k or 30k.  God forbid it was 100k, folks would still be waiting today to get to where they needed to go for their quarantine....ugly

 

 

Do the hotels not arrange for the quarantine transport???  They have been doing it since beginning, should be old hat by now.

 

 

[EricTh]

2 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

First international flight into Chiang Mai is not till next week according to this article

 

first international flight will arrive in Chiang Mai this Friday (November 5th)

No wonder the shops are still quite empty this morning in CM

 

 

 

 

 

 

[EricTh]

Just now, 86Tiger said:

 

 

Do the hotels not arrange for the quarantine transport???  They have been doing it since beginning, should be old hat by now.

 

 

According to the link below, yes, they provide test and transport.

 

https://asq.in.th/?durationSelectedItem=1+Day

 

 

[RichardColeman]

 

 

5 hours ago, HaoleBoy said:

Latest numbers for registering on "ThailandPass" on Twitter ... not a great %  yet.

 

#ThailandPass has registered requests from 22,779 travelers and approved 4,206 of them

Even at that rate, by the end of the week they will have a backlog log nearly 40,000 people waiting for approval if registering continues

[Will B Good]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Topping the CoE list were Germans with 1,520, US nationals 1,236, Brits 1,167, Japanese 892 and Russians 801.

How do the Indian millionaires travel to Thailand?...........are they all counted separately as they use private jets?

[ThailandRyan]

1 hour ago, 86Tiger said:

 

 

Do the hotels not arrange for the quarantine transport???  They have been doing it since beginning, should be old hat by now.

 

 

Read the article in the BP. Can not be posted here but you will see the issues.

[BusyB]

5 hours ago, John Drake said:

Were I a tourist, I would never waste my time fumbling around with something this fussy and annoying. I would just go to another country that didn't remind me of trips to East Germany 35 years ago.

That's a pretty shrewd comparison ...