Another look is being given to making quarantine less of a hassle to lure foreign travelers back to the kingdom now that vaccines have finally landed in the kingdom.
Fewer days of mandatory isolation and access to facilities outside of one’s room are among options under consideration to lower the barrier to travel, Gen. Nattapon Nakpanich of the National Security Council said Wednesday, the day the first two batches of COVID-19 vaccines arrived from abroad.
Relaxing the stringent requirements that turn off tourists and attracting vaccinated visitors and investors to Thailand, he said, is a priority for Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha, as the nation also wants to host more international sporting events after it won deals for world-class badminton and jet ski tournaments.
Prayuth on Tuesday said that tourists with COVID-19 passports, a theoretical certificate of…
