Special Tourist Visa: 681 foreign tourists to visit Thailand in November

[Chongalulu]

5 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

 

so each tourist needs to spend 4,405 times what they normally do and the problem is solved. 

So now you know exactly the % price increase to expect on that next beer Chang...

[Chongalulu]

57 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Finally acknowledging that their dreams match the stuff that falls from the back end of the animal.

That’s harsh..... the horsey ???? ????  does at least have some use on the fields 

[Call]

Historic moment, the future looks bright for Thailand ????

[teacherclaire]

6 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Are yoy riding of cowboy, been there done that? 

I prefer zebras............

[SupermarineS6B]

   That old chestnut again......  

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

"Amazing Thailand Plus Special Package".

I have another name for it... 

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, Moon6966 said:

Consider the hard line of the government to what tourists need to go through to get to Thailand it's hardly surprising... 

If they dropped those demands 

I bet they would start counting by the millions... 

I would have personally have been there already if not for the restrictions 

Drop the querntine a those other difficulties a the tourist will coming no problems 

Drop the quarantine and end up like most western nations... no thanks !

[ronaldo0]

I can hear the shouts of  ‘we are saved at last ! ‘ from all the tourist destinations . 681 !! ????????????

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

 

so each tourist needs to spend 4,405 times what they normally do and the problem is solved. 

Quarantine hotels are trying their best to make a dent in that.

[Big Yuley]

the 681 big spenders will save the millions of Thia's who rely on international tourists. 

 

Keep the scaremongering and fear mongering going Thai government. 

 

[teacherclaire]

18 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

I have another name for it... 

I have many other names for it. Plaa Raa country for example......

[teacherclaire]

16 minutes ago, ronaldo0 said:

I can hear the shouts of  ‘we are saved at last ! ‘ from all the tourist destinations . 681 !! ????????????

They meant million, I'm sure. 

[whitfield]

Most of the 681 are property owners coming back for winter.  They'll spend about as much as the average expat.

[mr mr]

that white girl in the picture is not coming to thailand. fake news. 

[spidermike007]

And that rather pathetic number shows the extreme lack of interest in the program. 

 

Until Thailand can figure out a program that does NOT require quarantine, Thailand will flounder, and miss out on the trillions of baht a year it brought in, and the millions of people the industry employed. 

 

The longer they remain shut down, the deeper the forgetfulness of Thailand will be. The longer they remain closed, the fewer will return, once they re-open. 

 

I predict no more than 5 million arrivals, five years from now. Maybe 15 million, by 2030. Maybe. 

[Traubert]

23 minutes ago, whitfield said:

Most of the 681 are property owners coming back for winter.  They'll spend about as much as the average expat.

Woohoo! According to TVFers they all spend at lease a million a month.

 

681 million previously unavailable baht. ????

 

[Plima]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Special Tourist Visa: 681 foreign tourists to visit Thailand in November

 

 

An upbeat governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand has said that 681 tourists will be visiting Thailand in November under the much heralded (though much criticised) Special Tourist Visa (STV) program. 

 

Yutthasak Suphasorn said that 263 tourists had completed the 14 day quarantine requirement, 134 were currently in quarantine and 284 would arrive before the end of November. 

 

The governor said that the TAT, THAi airways and hotels associations had been working on what he called the "Amazing Thailand Plus Special Package".

 

 

This was an all in one place service to make it easy for the tourists to get their air tickets, apply for their visa, find out about where to quarantine and book trips around the country once they are released. 

 

The TAT data announced yesterday was correct as of 17th November.

 

 

Thailand would normally be welcoming around 3 million tourists in November but the pandemic has ended that. 

 

Nation TV went with the upbeat message with a caption on their opening picture saying that Thailand was opening up to tourism. This was accompanied by a picture of the bankrupt THAI airline.

 

 

Other file pictures showed a westerner on the beach, one jumping for joy and smiling foreigners taking selfies at a temple.

 

 

There was also one beach snap of the rear end of a horse.

 

Pictures: Nation TV / TAT

 

Source: Nation TV

 

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O wow 681, but that's amazing ???? ....!

[Sean60]

Let me understand this. Normalt we have 3000000 tourist in Thailand during November. November is considered to be a dead month.

How dose this package will help us?

Who will benefit from this package? (The Thai government, Thai airways, expensive hotels). This means that existing ministers will be staling even more money. We the working people will receive nothing. 9 months in to the lockdown and there has not been any relief package for small business owners. So the dirty no showering monkey the health minister and his mates will richer as I the hard working person has soon nothing left.

Guess what! your turn will come up soon. 

[pokerface1]

3 hours ago, vandeventer said:

Just maybe they should open some borders and let some real tourist out that been here way to long.

They are so desperate for tourists now that I would worry about getting out again while I  still have money in my pocket

[Reigntax]

7 hours ago, Kadilo said:

Blimey,  where will they all stay?

 

Embarassing that 600 odd tourists visiting is actually news when according to TAT figures last year it represents less tha 0.1% of what they were sprouting.

[Robin]

681.  Great!  That is 23 per day.  hardly enough to form a decent line at Swampy Immigration.  

How many of THAI's jets will be needed to transport all of these?

[moe666]

And a few here said no one would take that deal, boy o boy were they wrong

[0815]

8 hours ago, ChipButty said:

How many are actual tourist? One of them in quarantine is a friend of mine he live here

My guess: None of them is a tourist.

[0815]

BTW, does anybody here (really) know how many people arrived on the STV in October ?

[Polaky]

681 foreign tourists

There are bunnies born every minute.

[Justgrazing]

Is that a ghost chasing her in the top pic' .. and Dobbin looks like he's stopped for a pony & trap .. probably what he thinks of the article .. 

[djayz]

Are there enough hotel rooms to accommodate them all? 

[lovethai123]

Why the pics of white people? Why didn't they put pics of their beloved chinese? 

[Blumpie]

Seriously, what's the the photos on the news story?  

861 tourists eh?  Down a wee bit, LOL.  How many millions were supposed to be coming this month?  

[ianezy0]

Zzzzzzz.....

Meanwhile, in other breaking news, 2 cars joined the traffic on highway 7 today....