Bangkok should be included in the tourism sandbox scheme for October that allows vaccinated visitors to enter without quarantine, or else Thailand will miss its goal of 6.5 million foreign tourists this year, say tourism operators.
Vichit Prakobgosol, vice-president of the Tourism Council of Thailand (TCT), said Bangkok is a strategic tourism hub as 90% of tourists who visit Pattaya have to start from the capital.
In addition to Phuket, which is slated to reopen first on July 1, five destinations are to follow in October: Krabi, Phangnga, Koh Samui, Pattaya and Chiang Mai.
TCT predicted the number of tourists visiting those six destinations to…
