Leave 14 day quarantine alone says Koh Samui tourism association

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STV: Leave 14 day quarantine alone says Koh Samui tourism association

 

 

A leading figure on the Thai tourist holiday island of Koh Samui has urged the Thai government to keep state quarantine at 14 days. 

 

They said that after a previously quarantined  French woman tested positive on the island half of all bookings were cancelled. 

 

And if the authorities can't get 14 day quarantine right, why reduce it to ten. 

 

As the mobile cabinet meeting is set to visit the island today, they have been asked to reconsider the controversial proposals.

 

Chief of the Tourism Association of Koh Samui Worasit Pongkhamphan outlined the dire state of tourism on the island.

 

He told PPTV 36 that there are 660 hotels and 28,000 rooms there but many are now shut. 

 

Only 130 are open offering 10,000 rooms. What little recovery there had been was knocked further by the case of the 57 year old French woman who tested positive on Samui after coming back from France and undergoing alternative state quarantine near Bangkok.

 

The case prompted 50% cancellations, he said. 

 

Now he has urged the cabinet through the tourism minister and health authorities not to change the quarantine to 10 days as they can't even get it right for 14. This should be kept in place for all those under the special tourist visa or STV.  

 

This is for the sake of the confidence of all foreign tourists, Thai tourists and locals, he said.

 

The cabinet is set to meet today and tomorrow in Samui and Phuket, said the media.

 

Source: PPTV