THAILAND may not welcome tourists without quarantine restrictions until 2022.
The country has laid out a four-stage plan which would reduce the travel restrictions over the next 12 months.
Stage one would be from April and May, which would allow five provinces -Phuket, Krabi, Surat Thani (Koh Samui, Tao and Phangan islands) Chonburi (Pattaya) and Chiang Mai – to welcome some tourists to quarantine at a hotel.
Tourists from the UAE, Israel, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and possibly India and Russia would have to quarantine in their room for three days, before being allowed to walk around the hotel until day 14.
From June to September, stage two would include the same tourists and provinces but would cut the quarantine from 14 days to 10 days, with two Covid tests, and travelling able to extend to other…