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Tourism back to life in Songkhla after Thailand Pass scrapped

Visitors from Malaysia and Singapore throng Sadao immigration checkpoint in Songkhla on Friday. (Photo: Assawin Pakkawan)

SONGKHLA: Tourism surged back to life at the Sadao immigration checkpoint, as visitors from Malaysia and Singapore thronged to this southern border province on Friday, the first day the Thailand Pass requirement for international visitors was scrapped.

The atmosphere at the checkpoint on the border with Malaysia’s Kedah state was lively on Friday morning after two years of being depressed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tour buses, private cars and passenger buses operating between Malaysia and Hat Yai district have been seen continually arriving to Songkhla via the checkpoint since Friday morning.

About 5,000…

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