Thailand is readying to kick off the ‘Phuket Sandbox’ campaign on Thursday to reopen the country’s largest resort island to vaccinated international tourists, a top official said here.
In a statement on Monday, Yuthasak Supasorn, governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) said that hotels and other tourism-related venues throughout the island province have been prepared for the reopening campaign whereas up to 80 per cent of Phuket’s residents will complete their vaccination against Covid-19 by Wednesday, Xinhua news agency reported.
An estimated 400 to 500 foreign tourists are scheduled to arrive in Phuket on Thursday and many more are expected to follow at later dates, he said.
The ‘Phuket Sandbox’ program was approved on June 4 at a meeting of the Centre for the Economic Situation Administration…
