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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

PM wants tourists sight-seeing or shopping, not stuck in airports

Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has wanted all arriving air passengers from abroad to take no more than 30 minutes going through the immigration procedure and picking up their luggage.

He also said that arriving passengers should not spend more than two hours at the airport between arrival and catching public transport to their hotels, because he wants them to spend more time sight-seeing and shopping, rather than at the airport.

He also said that he has invited the commissioner of the Immigration Bureau to Government House this afternoon, for a discussion on how to improve services at the country’s main airports, to cope with increased tourist arrivals, including, but not limited to, increasing manpower.

The prime minister paid an unannounced visit to Suvarnabhumi international airport yesterday, to observe the immigration services, after the immigration computer system had…

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