Travelers who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 could skip quarantine upon entering Thailand under a scheme proposed by tourism officials.
The tourism authority wants to introduce “vaccine passports” that would allow visitors to avoid isolating for two weeks on arrival, which was seen as a major turn-off to its previous efforts, which failed to draw a meaningful number of travelers during the pandemic.
The passports along with all-inclusive packages are two plans floated today by Tourism Authority Gov. Yuthasak Supasorn to meet its goal of luring 10 million visitors to the kingdom this year. Tourism revenue collapsed by about 73% last year after borders were shut to contain the spread of COVID-19, falling from THB3 trillion in 2019 to just over THB800 billion last year.
Through a comprehensive set of plans dubbed the Phoenix Initiative, Yuthasak said they…
