Kata Beach in Phuket after reopening as part of the sandbox scheme. Dusida Worrachaddejchai
Despite tourism operators and tourism-related agencies giving their blood, sweat and tears to ensure that the Phuket sandbox scheme marked the country’s reopening on July 1, their work is not yet complete. Instead, it just marks the beginning of a long road towards recovery.
As of Tuesday, the island had already welcomed 1,896 international travellers and all of them tested negative for Covid-19.
Kongsak Khoopongsakorn, president of the Thai Hotels Association’s (THA) southern chapter, said taking this first step with the sandbox was crucial in order to allow Phuket to bounce back to 80% of tourism numbers seen in 2019 or 14 million visitors by 2023, after almost two years of slowdown.
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