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BANGKOK, Thailand – The Tourist Police want the government to add 2,000 new officers to the force to secure their role in meeting the country’s tourism-revenue target of Bt2.2 trillion by next year.
BANGKOK, Thailand – The Tourist Police want the government to add 2,000 new officers to the force to secure their role in meeting the country’s tourism-revenue target of Bt2.2 trillion by next year.
Pol Maj-General Apichai Tiamataya, commander of the Tourist Police Division, said the current number of officers, at 700, was not enough to deal with the fast-growing number of foreign tourists coming to the Kingdom. The more the number of arrivals rises, the more problems take place.
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The heavy burden of reopening
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Destinations have to keep their fingers crossed the vaccines will arrive
published : 3 Jul 2021 at 09:00
9 The international terminal at Phuket airport on Thursday as tourists began to arrive under the Phuket sandbox scheme. The scheme reopens the country to vaccinated foreign arrivals.
While Phuket celebrates reopening to tourists for the first time in more than a year, with international flights bringing more than 300 vaccinated arrivals to the island on Thursday, the scene elsewhere in Thailand is a struggle with the relentless pandemic.
More than 50 deaths from Covid-19 were recorded on Wednesday and Thursday, followed by a high yesterday for new infections at 6,087. Fatalities hit a peak of 61.
Call for booster shots for residents of sandbox areas
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published : 1 Jul 2021 at 06:33
3 Health workers administer doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to elderly residents at a sports stadium in Phuket on Tuesday. (AFP photo)
The Tourism Council of Thailand (TCT) has urged the government to prepare booster shots for residents in sandbox areas. Herd immunity across the country, especially in 10 pilot destinations, is the most crucial factor for successful reopening, said Chamnan Srisawat, TCT president.
As the country cannot wait until the outbreak completely disappears, sandbox areas still need more booster shots to mitigate the risk of new variants and possible new rounds of outbreaks which will further hinder tourism recovery, he said.