An airport employee assists passengers through the arrival area at Phuket International Airport as Thailand welcomes the first group of tourists fully vaccinated against the Covid-19 coronavirus without quarantine in Phuket on November 1, 2021. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP

 

Over 90,000 foreign visitors applied for the “Thailand Pass” to enter the country between November 1st and yesterday (Saturday). Of these, 33,788 applications have been approved, Government Spokesman Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana said on Sunday.

 

Since November 1st, when Thailand reopened the country to foreign arrivals, 16,595 have entered Thailand without the need for quarantine, under the “test and go” program, the “sandbox” schemes in specific provinces and under the alternative quarantine program. Most of them have arrived from the US, Germany, the UK, Japan and Switzerland.

 

Thanakorn said about 30,000 foreign visitors are expected to enter Thailand in November and in December. This is about 10% of about three million who visited Thailand monthly in 2019. For the whole of 2021, he said that an estimated 700,000 tourists will have arrived in Thailand, including over 65,000 who visited Thailand under the “Phuket sandbox” scheme since July 1st.

 

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20 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thanakorn said about 30,000 foreign visitors are expected to enter Thailand in November and in December. This is about 10% of about three million who visited Thailand monthly in 2019. 

This is a prime indicator of the level of big wig, reporter or proof reader mathematical intelligence in Thailand.

 

Approximately 3,000,000 a month came in 2019, pre-pandemic. 

 

30,000 a month would be 1% - one of these people is clearly uneducated and should be fired.

 

 

29 minutes ago, webfact said:

For the whole of 2021, he said that an estimated 700,000 tourists will have arrived in Thailand, including over 65,000 who visited Thailand under the “Phuket sandbox” scheme since July 1st.

 

So now we have a prediction of approximately 635,000 tourists coming in November/December , even though the story stated 30,000 coming a month ? Or is the reported trying to say about 575,000 tourists arrived when the airport was closed ? Or are now migrants in the tourist visitors figures? 

 

Anyone ? 

 

Also the backlog has now risen to 60,000 application from Fridays 50,000 - god help applicants

 

 

 

3 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

This is a prime indicator of the level of big wig, reporter or proof reader mathematical intelligence in Thailand.

 

Approximately 3,000,000 a month came in 2019, pre-pandemic. 

 

30,000 a month would be 1% - one of these people is clearly uneducated and should be fired.

 

 

 

So now we have a prediction of approximately 635,000 tourists coming in November/December , even though the story stated 30,000 coming a month ? Or is the reported trying to say about 575,000 tourists arrived when the airport was closed ? Or are now migrants in the tourist visitors figures? 

 

Anyone ? 

 

Also the backlog has now risen to 60,000 application from Fridays 50,000 - god help applicants

 

 

 

This is what happens when so called reporters cut and paste a TAT press release and call it journalism.

14 minutes ago, edwinchester said:

This is what happens when so called reporters cut and paste a TAT press release and call it journalism.

Total disaster, totalled

11 minutes ago, fredscats said:

Total disaster, totalled

I think you should make total and totalled ALL CAPS and repeat them a few more times.  That way people will take you even more seriously.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Over 90,000 foreign visitors applied for the “Thailand Pass”

 

Or….3,000 would-be foreign visitors who ended up applying 30 times each.

 

 

 

Edited November 8, 20214 yr by Hayduke

I've given up believing in any numbers/statistics quoted by any government agency or anyone else of relative importance. I never believed the Covid figures, the road deaths figures are a travesty and TAT has been providing b/s figures for so long now it has become a standing joke.

 

How about a figure from the Government as to how much each minister has made from backhanders and brown envelopes ... that would be far more interesting

Edited November 8, 20214 yr by rtco
Spelling mistake

I just skip straight to the comments... for the real story....

15 minutes ago, Hayduke said:

 

Or….3,000 would-be foreign visitors who ended up applying 30 times each.

 

 

 

True. I’ve made 5 and know several people that each made over 5 applications.

Beware the Phuket quarantine hotel scams......1 positive passenger....20 that were sitting near that person, go to quarantine...Thb 52K....

There certainly are many people eager to come to Thailand now . Even with all the loops to pass ...

Thailand is still one of the better countries to visit and live in .

The ones who stay here already , seem to be privileged as it is not so easy to come here anymore ...

 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Over 90,000 foreign visitors applied for the “Thailand Pass” to enter the country between November 1st and yesterday (Saturday). Of these, 33,788 applications have been approved,

So , for the ones living here already : be happy , you already got what many want .

 

Yes , many things wrong in Thailand , but there are many countries more bad than this one .

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Over 90,000 foreign visitors applied for the “Thailand Pass” to enter the country between November 1st and yesterday (Saturday). Of these, 33,788 applications have been approved, Government Spokesman Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana said on Sunday.

Maybe those 90,000 each applied 3-times until it eventually worked?

Had to do my coe twice and missed my flight thank you very much ,got a  mate trying to do the Thailand pass with big problems, well done Thailand. 

Good news for Thailand real estate

Wow! Smashing! You need to apply for your own holiday to be approved nowadays. 
I missed the good old days of traveling, where you just need a non biometric passport and funds without any complicated paperwork requirements.

52 minutes ago, ChrisY1 said:

Beware the Phuket quarantine hotel scams......1 positive passenger....20 that were sitting near that person, go to quarantine...Thb 52K....

no, those sitting in close proximity are hospitalised for up to 10 days, same as the positive one.

But rules now are changed, only those seating directly next to you, and not on front and behind you. The first case in phuket sandbox was only 14 passengers, not the whole air plane.

That 10 days hospitalisation is shortened from the previous 14 days. And it's planned to be cut to 3-4 days, when tested the second time pcr negative.

It's not a scam. Such policy is in thailand from the first wave, it applies to all (including thai) and is universalfor the whole country, not just in phuket.

Now they have realised they need tourists badly so rules will be liberalised every few weeks. The test before flying to thailand will also be cancelled - just one on arrival (that is planned within 2 weeks)

Edited November 8, 20214 yr by internationalism

42 minutes ago, Pravda said:

Good news for Thailand real estate

Please explain? 

5 minutes ago, Tonypandy said:

Please explain? 

Sarcasm

Based on these numbers today and the numbers published on Nov 3rd, it looks like the processing capacity for approvals is running about 6000 per day. 

7 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

This is a prime indicator of the level of big wig, reporter or proof reader mathematical intelligence in Thailand.

 

Approximately 3,000,000 a month came in 2019, pre-pandemic. 

 

30,000 a month would be 1% - one of these people is clearly uneducated and should be fired.

 

 

 

So now we have a prediction of approximately 635,000 tourists coming in November/December , even though the story stated 30,000 coming a month ? Or is the reported trying to say about 575,000 tourists arrived when the airport was closed ? Or are now migrants in the tourist visitors figures? 

 

Anyone ? 

 

Also the backlog has now risen to 60,000 application from Fridays 50,000 - god help applicants

 

 

 

More discouraging news. The PM has announced that the government is considering adding an additional 30 countries to the list eligible for application for the QR Code. ????

1 hour ago, Pravda said:

Sarcasm

Sarcasm and irony just do not come across well online. 

1/3 of the applications accepted out of 90K+ submitted.

The government is its own worst enemy.

10 hours ago, webfact said:

Of these, 33,788 applications have been approved

Why is that?

 

It's a massive rejection rate.

 

Is the website simply that bad or are they randomly picking who can come?

 

I find it hard to believe they would be rejecting tourists randomly so something is seriously wrong with the system here - it's not fit for purpose.

 

Fire them all and recreate the system from scratch.

 

4 hours ago, raccos21 said:

Wow! Smashing! You need to apply for your own holiday to be approved nowadays. 
I missed the good old days of traveling, where you just need a non biometric passport and funds without any complicated paperwork requirements.

Terrible isn't it.

 

Who would have known that the whole world has been gripped by a virus that kills people.

 

Poor us.

Thai are great with math, aren't they? Unbelievable, Government Spokesman Thanakorn must re-take grade 5-7 math. 

30K per month is only a 1% not 10% as reported.  

Seen quite a few sort of insulting posts about Thai arithmetic abilities. Give them a break, they are using  Arabic numbering system and a lot must be lost merely due to translation squabbles and such. Not to mention cultural differences of the importance placed on  exactness's. 

4 hours ago, internationalism said:

no, those sitting in close proximity are hospitalised for up to 10 days, same as the positive one.

But rules now are changed, only those seating directly next to you, and not on front and behind you. The first case in phuket sandbox was only 14 passengers, not the whole air plane.

That 10 days hospitalisation is shortened from the previous 14 days. And it's planned to be cut to 3-4 days, when tested the second time pcr negative.

It's not a scam. Such policy is in thailand from the first wave, it applies to all (including thai) and is universalfor the whole country, not just in phuket.

Now they have realised they need tourists badly so rules will be liberalised every few weeks. The test before flying to thailand will also be cancelled - just one on arrival (that is planned within 2 weeks)

Selected scams: came here in May (family lives here), 14 day quarantine, on 7th day covid test inconclusive: wanted to ship me to hospital (insurance scam)for additional 14 quarantine: insisted on an independent test with another provider: test negative. Then found out hotel gets 6000baht for hospital referrals.    

5 hours ago, internationalism said:

no, those sitting in close proximity are hospitalised for up to 10 days, same as the positive one.

But rules now are changed, only those seating directly next to you, and not on front and behind you. The first case in phuket sandbox was only 14 passengers, not the whole air plane.

That 10 days hospitalisation is shortened from the previous 14 days. And it's planned to be cut to 3-4 days, when tested the second time pcr negative.

It's not a scam. Such policy is in thailand from the first wave, it applies to all (including thai) and is universalfor the whole country, not just in phuket.

Now they have realised they need tourists badly so rules will be liberalised every few weeks. The test before flying to thailand will also be cancelled - just one on arrival (that is planned within 2 weeks)

The test before flying to thailand isn't the problem.

The test on arrival is the problem and this is stopping many people going i'm sure.

Typically thai to cancel the wrong test????

4 minutes ago, Ty Hareways said:

The test before flying to thailand isn't the problem.

The test on arrival is the problem and this is stopping many people going i'm sure.

Typically thai to cancel the wrong test????

1. they want to be sure test is done properly. In the other countries you can order cheap pcr test yourself at home - it is delivered by post, you do your own swab, deliver to laboratory or post it. That might lead to abuse.

2. thai want to make money on pcr - charging 2400b. In Europe those same tests are from e49, with results 24-36h. But also in some countries pcr tests are free.

3. thai want to sell their 1 night hotel rooms and if positive put travellers into hospital or hospitel (that starts at 30k for 14 days). Also they have chance to find those sitting on airplane in close proximity - those are to hospitalised for 10 days as a precaution - that is another way of skimming off money 

5 hours ago, Pravda said:

Sarcasm

...at its worst     wiped out in an instant