‘Vaccine passports’ could allow foreigners to visit Thailand without quarantine
The ‘vaccine passports’ are one of a number of ideas mooted by TAT governor Yuthasak Supasorn in a bid to revive the country’s decimate tourism industry, which faces the prospect of one million workers left unemployed as a result of the pandemic...
Mr Supasorn said that if the ‘vaccine passports’ get the approval he would
expect 10 million tourists to visit the country in 2021...
The news comes as two of Thailand’s largest hotel operators have urged the government to cancel the current Covid-19-quarantine rules for vaccinated visitors in a bid to revive the country’s tourism industry...
Thailand, which normally welcomes around 40 million tourists, saw
tourist arrivals fall by 90 percent in 2020.