Thailand News Update | Doubts on Thailand’s Songkran 2022

Even after the Test & Go program was rebooted on February 1, along with the additional and unpopular Day 5 PCR test, there hasn’t been a large increase in the number of international tourists visiting Thailand. Indeed the new applications and actual arrivals have fallen well below expectations by Thailand’s tourism tzars.Now, Phuket officials are launching new plans to encourage Thai tourists to come to the southern Thai island. But they launched these plans on the same day the Thai government also announced a Level 4 alert on the Covid-19 situation in Thailand. The Phuket Tourists’ Association’s Vice President of Domestic Marketing says the association’s domestic marketing plan for this year includes activities to promote its “Consumer Fair and Roads Show”. The VP said it held a tourism campaign and road shows at Siam Paragon in Bangkok, and in other provinces,…