Travel agents jittery over jab tours

Travel agents jittery over jab tours

More firms mulling vaccine tourism

The Thai Travel Agents Association (TTAA) warned outbound tour companies to be fully prepared before offering vaccination tours after seeing demand surge dramatically.

Suthiphong Pheunphiphop, TTAA president, said these types of tour programmes are possible as the Public Health and Tourism and Sports ministries have not objected to the concept, though no countries are officially promoting vaccine tourism.

Some countries have proposed vaccine tourism, he said.

On Monday, an outbound tour company posted an ad on social media offering a 10-day vaccination tour in…