Thailand, in an effort to bolster tourism to the kingdom, has announced that instead of spending their 10 day mandated quarantine in one of the designated hotels tourists may instead opt to spend their isolation at sea. The initiative was announced earlier this month by the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA), in partnership with the …

Heading to Thailand is bound to be on the plans of millions of prospective travelers this year, with many having previously been denied the opportunity to visit the Land of Smiles as a result of the pandemic. Fortunately for them, doing so during the pandemic is set to become easier than ever. That’s because Thailand …

Throughout the pandemic, Thailand has been seen as a refuge for many American and international travelers. With cases numbers that are just a fraction of the likes of those seen in other large countries, Thailand was a place that, although it required hoops to be jumped through prior to arrival, allowed travelers to put the …

The government of Thailand has officially approved a proposal to reopen the country to all foreign tourists in a phased approach starting today. Tourism represents around 13% of Thailand’s total economy, so it’s no surprise that the government is doing all that it can to kickstart tourism. Thailand has been providing constant public updates about …

Travel during the pandemic has arrived in stages. Whilst the earlier stages saw precious little travel going on, later stages saw travel possible due to the widespread availability of testing. Now, it seems, we are in the most recent stage of pandemic travel – travel for those who are vaccinated. That certainly seems the case …

Travel around the world at present is dependent on a range of factors. From providing negative Covid-19 tests to showing proof of vaccination, tourists are required to jump through a series of hoops in order to be able travel once more. Yet, as countries become desperate to restart tourism, other solutions are being found. Much …

On the heels of releasing a new tourist tracking app, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has announced that the country will begin to allow vaccinated tourists with a shorter quarantine and may even waive it entirely. The new program could see Thailand’s battered tourism industry start to thrive once again as one of the …

Thailand has launched a new mandatory app for tourists called ThailandPlus that will track users movements and offer real time Covid-19 advice. The app was developed to help the Thai government with contact tracing efforts and inform tourists if they have come into contact with someone who has Covid-19. The new app will be mandatory …

As the battle against the pandemic continues to be fought around the world, the US has issued new travel advisories for a handful of countries. Thailand, the UK, Indonesia, Turks and Caicos Islands, Rwanda, Panama, Grenada, Belize and Equatorial Guinea are the latest countries to have their travel advisories updated by the US Department of …

With the UK’s fast-spreading strain of Covid-19 now present in several different countries around the world, Thailand is considering a ban on entrants from the UK to prevent it from reaching the Land of Smiles and causing their recent spike to get even worse. The weekend saw Bangkok head into lockdown amid rising cases in …

The most visited city in the world, Bangkok is a metropolis where old and new, East and West, and rich and poor co-exist together seamlessly in a vast melting pot of a city. Throw in the country’s rolling hills, paradisal beaches and culinary delights and it’s not hard to see why tourist numbers in the …

A recent outbreak of cases of Covid-19 in Thailand in a province near to the capital has prompted discussions of potential lockdowns in the future. With the epicentre of the most recent cluster just 45km from Bangkok, it’s thought that the city will be one of the surrounding areas affected should emergency measures come to …