Thailand may have dropped visa barriers to enter the country, but at best will draw only 1 percent of the tourists it drew in 2019 until mandatory quarantine is ended, officials said.
From July 9 – Dec. 13, the Foreign Affairs Ministry recorded only 50,625 Certificates Of Entry (COE) required to come to Thailand, almost half of those to business travelers and only 7,000 to genuine tourists. The rest were either students, returning expats or medical patients.
On average, the country has seen less than 15,000 foreign arrivals a month, a figure that could rise to 20,000 in December. By comparison, in 2019, three million foreigners arrived in Thailand each month.
