News Forum - Phang Nga asks for tourists to be allowed travel directly from Phuket airport

[Thaiger]

Phang Nga’s tourism operators are urging the government to allow foreign tourists to travel directly to the province from Phuket airport, skipping the 7+7 extension scheme. Pongsakorn Ketprapakorn from the Tourism Council of Phang Nga says tourists are being put off by the bureaucracy involved in the certificate of entry application process and the 7+7 scheme which mandates that tourists must first spend 7 days on Phuket before they can travel to Phang Nga. According to a Bangkok Post report, Pongsakorn says tour operators have reported that Scandinavian tourists want to travel directly to Phang Nga, without having to first […]

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[AussieBob]

Me Special - Me Me Me. Sit down guys and take a break - wait for the 'numbers' to be right and the whole place will then be reopened. 

 

[vvdb.fr]

The place will be safe when 86% of the population is vaccinated.

86% from infants to the oldest centenarian.

86% don't come out of a hat, it's scientific.

The contagiousness of a virus is expressed with its R0, for Delta R0 is 7. The vaccination rate for the clusters to die out naturally :  1 - (1 / R0) so 86%.

Edited September 21, 2021 by vvdb.fr

[AdvocatusDiaboli]

11 hours ago, Thaiger said:

Phang Nga says tourists are being put off by the bureaucracy involved in the certificate of entry application process

Obviously the most intelligent Thai in Thailands bureaucracy. But, they will never listen to him, as a lot of face will be lost!

[Bob20]

9 minutes ago, AdvocatusDiaboli said:

Obviously the most intelligent Thai in Thailands bureaucracy. But, they will never listen to him, as a lot of face will be lost!

Probably been put on desk duty for 5 years now...

[AdvocatusDiaboli]

7 minutes ago, Bob20 said:

Probably been put on desk duty for 5 years now...

I hope not, imagine him at the desk at immigration? Sourpuss and intelligent at the desk for 5 years. We would be well and truly out of luck. … then it would be not tourists but expat’s and business people that would suffer. 

[AdvocatusDiaboli]

11 hours ago, Thaiger said:

Pongsakorn says tour operators have reported that Scandinavian tourists want to travel directly to Phang Nga,

Bet they want to travel first class too! Can he make that happen, maybe on Thai Airways?

[Griff1315]

5 minutes ago, AdvocatusDiaboli said:

Bet they want to travel first class too! Can he make that happen, maybe on Thai Airways?

Only if they buy a plane or 2 off them first....

[AdvocatusDiaboli]

8 minutes ago, Griff1315 said:

Only if they buy a plane or 2 off them first....

Well they have three they can choose from

https://thethaiger.com/news/business/strapped-for-cash-thai-airways-puts-3-more-aircraft-up-for-
 

[RobMuir]

It makes sense. Khao Lak has been totally smashed by covid. It is mostly a sit by the pool in a big resort being served sort of place for families and groups who just want to relax.

Thinly populated so easy to keep the locals away and safe.

Nothing for the mongers there, so no high risk of spread that way. 

It could be easily managed.

And south of Khao Lak is the Samet Nangshe and Natai Beach areas that are closer to Phuket Airport than Patong, Kata, Karon etc. and also sparsely populated.

And Phangnga has had very low covid numbers.

Makes more sense than Phuket currently.

I wish them all the best.