Chinese tourists in Thai traditional costume at Wat Arun.
Thai travel agency sector leaders are welcoming the government’s plan to exempt visas for tourists from China, hoping that this will encourage more arrivals during the last quarter of the year and enabling Thailand to reach the target of five million visitors for the whole year.
Sisdivachr Cheewarattanaporn, president of the Association of Thai Travel Agents (ATTA), said that Chinese travel agents are excited about the prospect that the new Thai government is considering the lifting of visa requirements.
Chinese agents, said Sisdivachr, are confident that the visa free measure will encourage more Chinese to visit Thailand because, currently, obtaining a tourist visa from the Thai Embassy or Thai consular offices takes than it did before the COVID-19 pandemic.
If the visa free measure becomes effective on October 1st,…
