Bangkok gearing up to reopen for international tourists from next month

Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, is making all efforts to reopen for international tourists from next month. It is likely that higher local inoculation rate might help to attract more foreign visitors and boost the economy that has been battered by the COVID pandemic.

As per the reports, as well as beach resorts of Pattaya, Hua HIn and Cha-Am, are also preparing to reopen to tourists. Referring to this, Tourism Ministry officials added that the reopening will be modeled after the Sandbox initiative to bring back vaccinated tourists to Phuket. They added that more destinations, such as Koh Chang, Chiang Rai, and Koh Kood, will likely fully reopen for visitors from mid-October, with travel bubbles that have been planned.This latest move is designed to complement Thailand’s Sandbox initiative, which was launched in July as the first step in reopening the country’s tourism industry. As per the tourism officials, the initiative has been a great success.
Reports have it that more than 27000 international travellers have visited Thailand under the said initiative, which lets vaccinated tourists gain entry to Phuket and other cities, as long as they stay in hotels that have been approved by the tourism authority. The authorities associated with the scheme added that all the approved hotels have been checked thoroughly, and also guarantee at least 70 per cent of their workforce is vaccinated.
The duration of stay in Phuket was also reduced from 14 days to 7 days in August, which meant tourists were able to select destinations of their travel after a week.
Tourism officials also informed that travel bubbles are being planned with neighbouring countries, which will not come into existence until 2022 at the earliest.