The Tourist Authority of Thailand (TAT) has confirmed its plans to reopen Phuket to vaccinated international tourists on July 1st, 2021. Despite being one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations – attracting almost 40 million visitors annually – Thailand has been challenging to enter since the COVID-19 pandemic began. “From 1 July, 2021, vaccinated …

The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has given seven more countries its coveted ‘Safe Travels Stamp’, including popular tourist hot spots like Thailand and Barbados. The WTTC Safe Travel Stamp The Safe Travel Stamp was launched 12 months ago to help restore confidence in travelers and revive the global travel and tourism sector, which …

Finding information about traveling during the pandemic can be a bit of a minefield, with different sources seeming to contradict one another and it often proving difficult to find accurate, up to date information on where’s open and how you can get there. Thailand has been struggling with a lack of tourists in the past …

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 …