Picture: Siam Rath
A Thai government spokesman has slammed as fake news reports on social media that the Phuket Sandbox reopening to foreign tourists was over.
And he has insisted that despite less than 400 tourists arriving each day a 100,000 target for three months will be met with spending of 8.9 billion baht.
This came from Thanakorn Wangbunkhongchana, a PM's office secretary and spokesman for the office that handles the economic fallout from Covid-19.
He said there was no truth to suggestions that the sandbox had been abandoned amid a rise in infections calling it fake news and pointing his finger at bad people who suggested that. He urged the public not to share this nonsense.
He said that everything was proceeding as planned, strict measures were in place, all infections were being recorded and handled properly with quarantine for those in contact with those who are infected.
He told Siam Rath that with nearly two weeks of the sandbox completed there had already been 4,778 foreign tourists.
Based on that being 12 days it would mean that just under 400 tourists had entered Thailand for the sandbox each day.
Extrapolated at the same rate it would mean around 36,600 visits before the end of September, notes ASEAN Now.
Yet the spokesman insisted that TAT targets for 100,000 tourists would be met and they would be spending 8.9 billion baht.
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