First tourist group in 7 months to arrive in Bangkok today
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First tourist group in 7 months to arrive in Bangkok today

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10-20-2020
 

The Minister of Tourism and Sports, Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn has announced the arrival of the first group of tourists to arrive in the Kingdom since borders were locked in March as per a media report. The first groups of tourists will arrive at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport. The minister said that they need not worry about the political unrest currently rocking the capital, indicating that the out the protests are largely peaceful.

The tourists departing from Shanghai, China and arriving in Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) will only be in Thailand for 30 days, Tourism Authority of Thailand Governor Yuthasak Supasorn says. They’ll spend half that time locked up in quarantine for 14 days. Today’s flight today is reported to include 41 people who have applied for their visa through the new STV, Special Tourist Visa.

Phiphat says that in total, 400 international tourists, primarily Chinese, will arrive in Thailand by early November. All will be tested and whisked off for 14-day quarantine on arrival, in addition to having to endure copious amounts of paperwork before they even get here. A plan to admit Chinese tourists earlier this month hit a small snag when it emerged not a single one had applied for the government’s newly-launched Special Tourist Visa.

The tourism minister says the first group to arrive are doing so as part of a “conditional entry” program and are arriving from a region in China that “has been free of the Covid-19 virus for several months now”. It’s understood the visitors have been specially chosen and approved for entry by the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration.

Additional tourists are expected to arrive on October 26, when another group lands in Phuket. The later arrival in Phuket was to coincide with the end of this year’s Vegetarian Festival celebrations. Phiphat says the October 26 arrivals are also coming from very low risk areas.

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