Thai Resort Island Plans to Open to Vaccinated Tourists in O

Thai Resort Island Plans to Open to Vaccinated Tourists in Oct.
Bloomberg
13/03/2021
Randy Thanthong-Knight
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Salesmen offer flyers to tourists as they arrive at Bangrak pier in Koh Samui, Surat Thani, Thailand, on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017. Tourist arrivals are forecast at 34.1 million this year, up 5 percent from 2016 but down from an earlier projection of 36.3 million, according to the Bank of Thailand.
(Bloomberg) -- Thailand’s southern resort island of Koh Samui plans to fully reopen to foreign visitors who are vaccinated, and will allow them to skip quarantine from Oct. 1.
“The island’s economy and infrastructure were built around foreign tourism, and businesses here have been struggling without foreign visitors over the past year,” Ratchaporn Poolsawadee, president of the Tourism Association of Koh Samui, said in a phone interview on Saturday. “We need to reopen as soon as possible to be able to compete for visitors with other countries.”

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