In a Meeting, Thailand’s Tourism Ministry will Propose Ease Restrictions

Monday, February 21, 2022

In a meeting this week, Thailand’s tourism ministry is all prepared to propose that the country eases some of its entry restrictions with the country’s Covid-19 committee. The Southeast Asian nation – home to the most visited city of the world, Bangkok, before the pandemic – has fought back to draw travelers to its shores in the same numbers that it used to come before the pandemic. They also expect that changing its entry requirements will go some way towards remedying the situation. 

This week, the ailing tourism sector of the country has been vocal in showing its support to such changes, mainly as neighboring hotspots like Vietnam and Philippines will be easing their restrictions in the coming weeks too.

At the start of this month, Thailand’s popular Test and Go method of entering the country made a return, having previously been scrapped due to Omicron fears. However, when the scheme returned, it did so with a few extra rules that meant entering the country was not quite as straightforward as it was in its previous iteration – much to the annoyance of travelers around the world. 

The new rules mentioned that travelers would not only have to test on their arrival day but they would have to book themselves into a hotel where they’ll be tested for Covid-19 once more on their fifth day – unable to leave until a negative test result was returned. This fifth day testing has been criticized not only by travelers, but those in the tourism industry too – though it could soon be on its way out. 

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