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Thread: Chinese Tourists to be Allowed Without Quarantine?

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    Chinese Tourists to be Allowed Without Quarantine?

    https://pattayaone.news/thailand-to-...ut-quarantine/

    The COVID-19 pandemic has hit tourism hard, and many countries expect tourists all around the world to come as soon as possible.

    Thailand is talking with China about a quarantine-free travel corridor by January to rescue its ailing tourism industry, the Bloomberg reported.

    Thailand Tourism Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said Thailand will reopen to foreign tourists in October with limitation.

    In the absence of COVID-19 re-outbreak, Chinese tourists will not have to undergo mandatory quarantine and can use coronavirus testing and a mobile tracking application instead.

    According to Thailand’s long-term tourist visa program, the first batch of Chinese tourists will arrive in Bangkok on October 20.

    Thailand plans to issue 1,200 visas a month to help ease foreign tourists’ loss over the past five months as tourism is severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the report said.

    About 11 million Chinese tourists visited Thailand in 2019, bringing in about 17 billion U.S. dollars in revenue, according to official figures.

    “Thais don’t have enough money to boost the industry, so either way we have to find a way to bring in foreign tourists,” Phiphat said.

    “If we don’t receive any foreign tourists, our economy will suffer a heavy contraction.”


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    Thailand Tourism Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said Thailand will reopen to foreign tourists in October with limitation.

    In the absence of COVID-19 re-outbreak, Chinese tourists will not have to undergo mandatory quarantine and can use coronavirus testing and a mobile tracking application instead.

    According to Thailand’s long-term tourist visa program, the first batch of Chinese tourists will arrive in Bangkok on October 20.
    Have I been asleep for a few days? Isn't this precisely what we were told about the first Chinese arriving on long stay visas only for the programme to be cancelled 24 hours before anyone arrived. Perhaps I should be more accurateL because no Chinese had actually signed up for the trips.

    With China having just locked down 9 million citizens of Qingdao because of a covid outbreak and that city being a popular destination for local tourists during the long October national holiday. who knows how many around China now have the virus. And Thailand is going to let them in without any form of quarantine?

    The country is still being run by fantasists.

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    We're already into October. No general tourists to date. Special Tourist Visa scrapped.

    More unsubstantiated nonsense.

    When will PattayaOne learn???

    Completely contradicts Pattaya News article below regarding quarantine requirements:

    https://thepattayanews.com/2020/10/1...tive-tourists/

    The Tourist Minister clearly has a political agenda. Creating chaos is his specialty...he must have taken lessons from watching Trump.

    Political unrest is causing VERY deep concerns in the government. More meaningless articles like this are sure to follow. Pure fantasy to distract the masses.

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    Re: Chinese Tourists to be Allowed Without Quarantine?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dodger View Post
    We're already into October. No general tourists to date. Special Tourist Visa scrapped.

    More unsubstantiated nonsense.

    When will PattayaOne learn???

    The Tourist Minister clearly has a political agenda. Creating chaos is his specialty...he must have taken lessons from watching Trump.

    Political unrest is causing VERY deep concerns in the government. More meaningless articles like this are sure to follow. Pure fantasy to distract the masses.
    I totally agree that Thailand at the moment appears to be in a dire political situation however, I doubt that The Pattaya One news in English will have much affect on “the masses”.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Manforallseasons View Post
    I doubt that The Pattaya One news in English will have much affect on “the masses”.
    I wonder therefore why you bothered to post the link.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manforallseasons View Post

    I doubt that The Pattaya One news in English will have much affect on “the masses”.
    Thank God!

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    Re: Chinese Tourists to be Allowed Without Quarantine?

    Quote Originally Posted by Armando View Post
    I wonder therefore why you bothered to post the link.
    Do you think the Thai masses read this forum?....Lol
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    Re: Chinese Tourists to be Allowed Without Quarantine?

    Quote Originally Posted by Manforallseasons View Post
    Do you think the Thai masses read this forum?....Lol
    No. But I often wonder why readers of this forum read and post articles from the Pattaya rags.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Armando View Post

    No. But I often wonder why readers of this forum read and post articles from the Pattaya rags.
    Ditto.

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    Re: Chinese Tourists to be Allowed Without Quarantine?

    They keep talking as though they are opening up to full tourism again, and then slip in little things like 'charter flights' and numbers like '1200/month' - when normal high season tourist numbers are in the order of 100,000 per day.

    What they are really saying is that they are opening up to their rich chums who have private jets - the rest of us can go hang...

    However, there is a wind of change blowing in the LoS, and the next few months look likely to be pretty tumultuous. Most of Thailand's high season tourist trade looks set to head off to Latin America this winter instead. Given that there is hardly a family in Issan that isn't in some way reliant on the hard cash of tourism, it looks likely that the red shirts will kick off again - joining the Bangkok middle classes who are currently braving the water cannon in their clamour for democratic reform..

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