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The Kingdom expands Sandbox scheme to Krabi, Phang-Nga, and Surat Thani, and from April, a US$9 entry per foreign traveller.

This American-born entrepreneur runs a worldwide business empire from Thailand, including food and hospitality chains and a private jet company.

Thailand recently approved a new round of relaxed entry measures for arrivals from South Africa and other African countries.

Thailand has updated its travel restrictions due to the spread of the Omicron variant.

Thailand added three popular beach destinations to a visa programme that allows foreign visitors to bypass a mandatory isolation, throwing a lifeline to its Covid-19-hit tourism industry seen as key to a nascent economic recovery, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand website. 

TORONTO — Thailand has approved the reopening of three more ‘Sandbox’ destinations: Krabi, Phang-Nga and Surat Thani (Ko Samui, Ko Pha-ngan and Ko Tao).

International travellers can travel to Thailand under Sandbox programme, and choose to undergo mandatory 7-day stay

Final figures are not yet in for 2021, but through November, visitor spending in Hawaiʻi is approaching $2 billion. Elsewhere in the Pacific, tourism has been much slower to return — and now there are further delays in that recovery. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in this Asia Minute.

SURAT THANI: An Israeli tourist arrested on Koh Samui after leaving his Bangkok quarantine hotel without a Covid-19 clearance was flown to Bangkok on Monday night for legal proceedings.

On the same day, ferry departures from Phuket, Krabi, Koh Lanta, Koh Phi Phi, and Koh Muk can reach Langkawi in Malaysia. A detailed explanation of how the process works can be found here. Table of contents 1. Can you take a train from Thailand to Malaysia? 2. Is there an airport on Koh Lanta? […]