Thailand is considering providing free air tickets to foreign tourists. What do you think?

Thailand’s tourist destination Phuket plans to exempt tourists who have received the COVID-19 vaccine from mandatory quarantine measures from July. One week after landing on the island, tourists can still travel to other parts of Thailand if they do not have symptoms of COVID-19 and their test results are negative. For example, you can stay in Phuket for a week and then go to Samui.

Because that period coincides with the seasonal storm period in the Andaman Sea, when tourists travel to the island, Thailand will provide short-term help with transportation costs, such as air ticket discounts or air ticket discounts. , or the tourism bureau may support tourists' travel expenses---it is currently only in the proposal stage. If it is subsidized, it will be a domestic flight in Thailand. The purpose is to encourage tourists to continue to travel (spend) in Thailand.

Thailand has recently resisted some domestic pressure and formulated a timetable for gradually opening the country to welcome foreign tourists. Starting from October 1, foreign tourists holding a COVID-19 vaccination certificate will not need to quarantine when entering the six major tourist areas of Phuket, Krabi, Phang Nga, Samui, Chiang Mai and Pattaya.

Thailand’s plan:

The first phase (April-June) plans to attract about 100,000 foreign tourists (an average of about 3,500 tourists per month);

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Between the middle and the end of the year, quarantine measures will be relaxed in Bangkok, Krabi, Phang Nga, Suratthani, Chonburi, and Chiang Mai. It is expected that the target can be achieved to attract 6.5 million tourists to Thailand.

However, in the past few days, the epidemic situation in Thailand is not optimistic, and a cluster of infections suddenly occurred in Bangkok. Many high-ranking officials, well-known businessmen and celebrities have been infected.

A senior official went to a famous entertainment nightclub in Bangkok, and the nightclub’s internet celebrity female publicist was revealed to be infected with the new crown virus.

The biggest "epicenter" is a nightclub in the Thonglor area of ??Bangkok (the most famous "Japanese area" in Bangkok), where more than 40 people have been infected in a concentrated outbreak.

College students and Japanese in Bangkok have become the core victims of this wave of epidemics. Among the cases found in Nonthaburi, "the vast majority are Japanese on business trips." Japan's Minister Plenipotentiary to Thailand Kazuya Rida was announced by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on April 3 that he had been diagnosed with the new crown virus.

Since most of the epidemic outbreaks come from nightclubs, and most Japanese cases were also infected in nightclubs in the Thonglor area, the news that "the Japanese minister was infected" immediately aroused many associations.

Being a bartender is a normal benefit recognized by society for Japanese office workers (the expenses can be reimbursed by the company), so it is not surprising that the diagnosis was confirmed in nightclubs.

Yesterday, Thailand announced that the Songkran Festival celebrations will be cancelled.