Thai Tourism and Sports Ministry expects 400 foreign visitors in early November

[Expat Tom]

I am actively planning my exit from the land of smiles as soon as free travel and easy entry into other countries is possible. The people running this country have lost their collective minds if they are courting the return of the Chinese....the very people who gave the world the CCP Wuhan Coronavirus. I am absolutely positive that big money is changing hands to further Thailand's entry into China's sphere of influence. There are people in Bangkok who want Thailand to be a client state of the CCP. I am out of here!!!! 

[condobrit001]

Woohoo - happy days are here again thanks to the yellow peril! That's about ten bus loads! Stock up the buffets and start washing snot from the streets. Oh. and i'll order one more submarine please.

[Thomas Hannah]

I cannot believe they said china is a low risk country.Has nobody told them .it all started in china.And its still rife in china.

[Peter Denis]

Thailand had 39,8 MILLION visitors in 2019, that's more than 100.000 PER DAY.

And now the arrival of 400-800 visitors over a 2-week period is headline News?

Guess he meant it as a 'there is light at the end of tunnel' message, but a 10 watt bulb at the end of a 10 mile tunnel is not very inspiring...

[spidermike007]

Pipat is completely lost, and he has always been in over his head, well before Covid. He should have stuck with running the PTT stations. His $155 million fortune insures he is completely out of touch with the needs of the people. Appointed Prayuth style. With no credentials other than money and influence. 

 

No program will work, which requires quarantine. Period. End of story. 

 

Leaders lead. Cowards and men completely devoid of vision and solutions, cower in the corners, and come up with nothing. 

 

It is just a matter of time now. Finally, the people are speaking in a loud and clear voice. Kudos to them. Kudos to the youth! 

Edited October 19, 2020 by spidermike007

[Sean60]

It is time to take away the restrictions an dopen up the country.

Enough of this madness. We are suffering big time. 

The business is dead and soon willl be the savings. 100 or 500 or 1000 will not solve the financial issues. 

Stop being stubborn and start acting like leaders and care for the all the people of your country.

this is madness.

[raccos21]

I think they need to fix the country’s problem before bringing the tourists in.

[fak119]

3 hours ago, alianware said:

And with 400 tourists, they want to boost the economy up ????

Until the hotels in whole thailand wait enough tourists, they will already go bankrupt.

What about the (stranded) retirees who do contribute much more for the

Thai economy that any of the Chinese “tourists”?

Edited October 19, 2020 by fak119
Grammatical mistake corrected

[ChipButty]

48 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

I hope the transport minister has laid on extra trains & coaches to ship all the "service workers" back to Bangkok.

Apparently they did that a few weeks ago calling the workers back and that did not go down to well as many bookings were cancelled

[fak119]

On 10/16/2020 at 12:36 PM, Max69xl said:

"He didn't mean to steal it and has prove that it was misunderstanding."

How did he prove it was a misunderstanding and to whom? Who did he steal from? From a shop or a person? Why didn't he try to make a deal with the person who accused him of stealing before it went to court? 

He? You mean YOU...   ????

[Jack Cook]

Just another daily Joke from Thailand Tourism. They have to keep making stuff up to justify their existence 

[Kenchamp]

Keep them all out until a vaccine is found

[AlfHuy]

20 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:

Thailand had 39,8 MILLION visitors in 2019, that's more than 100.000 PER DAY.

And now the arrival of 400-800 visitors over a 2-week period is headline News?

Guess he meant it as a 'there is light at the end of tunnel' message, but a 10 watt bulb at the end of a 10 mile tunnel is not very inspiring...

Peter, you don't understand.

 

Before it was 100,000 a day. What are the zeros? Zero is nothing;

Take it as 1

 

Now, they bring in 400 a day. Again Zero is zero.

4 is more then 1

 

His maths skills are right.

[CockneyGit]

"Welcome To Thailand. Everything is closed. Enjoy!"

[Kaopad999]

24 minutes ago, Thomas Hannah said:

I cannot believe they said china is a low risk country.Has nobody told them .it all started in china.And its still rife in china.

Incorrect,  China has had it well under control for some time now. 

[AlfHuy]

1 minute ago, Kaopad999 said:

Incorrect,  China has had it well under control for some time now. 

yes, the reporting.

[Max69xl]

The Minister of Tourism and Sports said this, and it wasn't in the article here: 

"He also stated that this group is part of a “conditional entry” program and were specifically selected and endorsed by the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration, or CCSA."

These 120 chinese so called "tourists" were "specifically selected" and probably didn't have to apply for their visas the normal way. 

[Kaopad999]

4 minutes ago, AlfHuy said:

yes, the reporting.

Actually i don't think so, if you look at countries that went into full lock down and closed their borders, and even in China's case, closed their cities off completely, then you'll see their Covid cases are very low.
 

[jomtienisgood]

5 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

What's happened to the private jet that was supposed to be turning up as well .. must be on it's 10th lap of the globe by now .. 

Watch out for headline " Chinese investors private jet crashes after running out of fuel waiting to land " ..

It crashed, same as the entire project. 5555555

[ICELANDMAN]

400 tourists the reason is that there are only 400 electronic bracelets available

[kiwikeith]

5 hours ago, baansgr said:

It's been so quite without tourism, not looking forward to all the traffic and queues these 400 are going to make

 

 

They probably will have had a shot of the chinese vaccine, this might be a vaccine test as well.

Bring a few more in gradually, if none get infected. Open up a bubble. The first lot will be busy snapping up real estate they won't have time to play volley ball on Pattaya beach with the sports ministers team.

[Pedrogaz]

I guess we'll be seeing daily chart of how many tourists are here...bit like Covid.

[KhunKenAP]

I seriously doubt the Chinese Government will let them come to a country undergoing street protests. By the way, it is not just in Bangkok, now also in Pattaya and many other Thai cities. This is the first time in my 20.5 years here in Pattaya, that anything like that has happened, beyond the Red/Yellow confrontation during an ASEAN conference being held here.

[kuzmabruk]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Foreign visitors must undergo a 14-day quarantine or strictly comply with prescribed guidelines against COVID-19 before undertaking travel.

Notice it is now OR.   So quarantine is now NOT required for Chinese.  

[Peterphuket]

4 hours ago, colinneil said:

 

This man is a BIGGER comedian than Prayut, 400 tourists !!WOW !! The tourist industry is rejoicing with that news, singing we are saved.????

He remind me to the spokesman in Irak, who was said everything was under control, while behind him the bombs fell, funny man was that.

[Harry Fingerling]

Clearly the sports minister & his cronies are exempt from wearing masks?

[micmichd]

2 hours ago, apetryxx said:

China, China and China! Borders on obsession.

Asia, Asia, Asia... 

[Caldera]

Hilarious, that number even seems to include those two planeloads due to arrive in late October.

 

[shortstop]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Foreign visitors must undergo a 14-day quarantine or strictly comply with prescribed guidelines against COVID-19 before undertaking travel.

It says OR instead of AND.

[Migrosmarket]

For a nation that hates losing face, the government sure provide many opportunities to do so. Daily.