Tourists visit Maya bay in Krabi on Jan 3, 2022 after Thailand reopened its world-famous beach after closing it for more than three years to allow its ecosystem to recover from the impact of overtourism. (Reuters photo)
The Sandbox scheme, now expanded to tourist magnets in the South, is no match for the suspended Test & Go programme although it is keeping the country’s tourism heart beating, say tourism experts.
The emergence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 put an instant damper on tourism, one of the kingdom’s biggest foreign exchange earners, barely two months after the country had reopened to overseas visitors in November last year.
To fully capitalise on reopening, the government implemented the Test & Go programme to pull in more tourists through a shorter health observation period.
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