Thailand tourism minister Pipat Ratchakitprakan has made the clearest statements yet related to Thailand finally opening up to foreign tourism without quarantine. Thai Visa



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Thailand tourism minister Pipat Ratchakitprakan has made the clearest statements yet related to Thailand finally opening up to foreign tourism without quarantine.

 

It will apply to tourists who have had two doses of vaccine in their home countries. The plan is that they will not need to quarantine from the start of the third quarter - July 1st.

 

It will likely start in Phuket first then Pattaya and after that Chiang Mai, Daily News reported.

 

Under the "sandbox" plan where limited travel is allowed tourists will be taken from airports to hotels and stay in a specified area for seven days before being allowed to travel to the rest of Thailand. 

 

Pipat said that the success of the plan rested on getting 70% of people vaccinated in the tourism areas with health workers, other officials and people in the tourism industry going first.

 

So far Phuket says it needs 925,000 doses to do this and Pattaya has asked for 950,000. Chiang Mai is yet to respond. 

 

Pipat will be presenting his plans to the CCSA main Covid steering committee at their next meeting.