Fully vaccinated travellers from more than 60 countries are now allowed to tour the country
Health workers check the documents of international travellers arriving at Phuket International Airport. Picture: ANDRE MALERBA/BLOOMBERG
It’s the biggest step Thailand has taken to welcome back a slice of the nearly 40-million visitors it hosted the year before the pandemic, and is billed as a “fight to win foreign tourists” as countries from Australia to the UK also loosen Covid-19 curbs. A successful Thai experiment could help salvage its battered economy and serve as a model for countries wary of a virus resurgence from reopenings.
While Thailand fumbled in its previous reopening attempts due to a virus flare up and tardy progress in its vaccinations, it has had some success with the so-called Phuket Sandbox experiment that allowed vaccinated visitors to travel to other parts of the country after a limited stay on the resort island. Almost 60,000 tourists have visited the country since the plan started in July.
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