Thailand Tourism needs longer visas and more flights

In order to facilitate increased tourism, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has set a few goals. They aim to help add flights into Thailand during the high season as well as petition to continue longer visa-on-arrival time periods to enable tourists to stay in the kingdom longer.

As international tourism to Thailand increases steadily, faster growth has been stymied by semantics. In China, for example, tour operators and travel companies haven’t been able to work out the logistics of bringing big groups after the sudden reopening of borders for outbound Chinese tourists.

But even more difficult is adding flights to routes and schedules to facilitate the desire of people to fly into Thailand. Take-off and landing time slots must be requested with and approved by aviation authorities. Chinese airlines have reached out to the Civil Aviation Authority of…