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Home » News from Thailand » TAT wants to abolish Thailand Pass by July 1
TAT wants to abolish Thailand Pass by July 1
Posted in Entry conditions Covid-19, News from Thailand, Travel
Tags: Covid-19, Thailand entry conditions, PCR test, TAT, Tourism Authority of Thailand
Photo: Ringo Chiu / Shutterstock.com
Although Thailand plans to scale down all corona rules from July this year, the double test obligation will remain in place for the time being (PCR test before departure and on arrival).
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is preparing a plan to relax travel regulations in line with the government's timeline to declare Covid-19 an endemic disease on July 1. The TAT therefore announced today that they will propose to abolish the Thailand Pass as of July 1.
The TAT plans to propose further relaxation of travel regulations at the next meeting of the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) on March 18. Exactly what they are has not been disclosed.
The tourism target for revenues and arrivals this year will be revised downwards by the TAT due to rising oil prices and inflation caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, TAT Governor Yuthasak Supasorn said.
Source: Bangkok Post
Excellent news, the sooner the better. Nice excuse, by the way, to blame the disappointing visitor numbers on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. That was really not the Thailand Pass! 🙂
That invasion, in which Thailand tries to remain neutral, is really a thing. The Russians have been one of the largest groups to arrive in Thailand in recent months. With the crashed ruble and the withdrawn credit cards Mastercard and Visa, Thailand is simply impossible for many ordinary Russians in a practical and financial sense
No doubt, experienced it myself in January in our hotel in Jomtien, indeed quite a lot of Russians. But I don't think that invasion is really causing the long-disappointing visitor numbers. Although it can of course also have an impact in the coming months.
The Thai obviously need all the income so it's sad for that but for me personally they can stay away as long as possible.
It won't sound nice but… fine that a lot less Russians can travel outside Russia. Let's face it: the average Russian is a lousy tourist. Anyone who has dealt with Russians or sees them walking around can confirm this. Leaving aside that few exceptions, of course, because we are not allowed to generalize (well…).
By the way, many hotels in Turkey are “Russian Free” ie: a guarantee is given that no Russian tourists stay in the hotel. This is not for nothing.. Of course the reason why it is not possible for many Russians to travel to Asia is terrible. I don't need to explain why.
Too bad the test stays on arrival. As an ordinary tourist who only has three weeks of vacation, I will not run the risk of getting a positive result after arrival and then having to quarantine for 14 (or maybe 10) days.
Yes, it's a pity that those two tests are still there, we are spoiled Thailand visitors, normally twice a year, haven't been for two years, purely because of those shitty tests. Test away, we're back.
Indeed, the risk is too great to be tested positive.
At sometime. I am fully vaccinated and had corona (omikron) 3 weeks ago. In terms of antibodies, it should be good by now, so I'm not going to get a booster. Ontopic weather: the first 2 months after you have contracted corona, it makes no sense to test anyway (source: RIVM). The chance that you will be tested positive is high. And then you have the false positives. Moreover, I do not know how many “cycles” are used during the test, in other words if they want to find something, they will succeed…
The test on arrival is a thorn in my side. That PCR test here is already irritating because you bought a plane ticket and probably incurred multiple expenses. But if you are also tested on arrival… no. I wouldn't take that risk either.
Yes and then the slack season just started if they were smart it was immediately abolished.
Especially now that they are going to miss out on a lot of tourism from Eastern Europe in the near future.
In the Netherlands you can already do a saliva PCR test instead of the throat and nose swab.
As soon as that is also possible in Thailand, I will go there.
I've already had the Omicron Covid, and wonder why I still have to booster to qualify
to be able to come so as not to have to be quarantined.
https://www.mednet.nl/nieuws/opinie-speekseltesten-als-alternatief-voor-de-keel-neustest/
https://coronapcrtesten.nl/speeksel-antigeen-sneltest/
No one needs to booster. I assume you haven't had any vaccinations at all.
It will be a matter of interpretation, but I have read it slightly differently in the various media: all measures will be abolished as of July 1 (so not from July 1) and in the months leading up to this, relaxations will be introduced little by little. In addition, a number of important captains of industry have urged the government to abolish the “Test and Go” situation as soon as possible in order to promote the recovery of the economy as much as possible. In addition to the possible lack of Russian tourists, Thailand is also seeing that other tourist destinations in the region (Bali, Singapore) are increasingly opening their borders to vaccinated tourists.