Friday, 8 October 2021

Thailand removed from the UK “red list”, list reduced to only seven countries

 

Thailand/UK-According to the UK government, only seven countries will remain on the so-called “red list” that requires mandatory quarantine at a government quarantine center upon return and is a major deterrent to travel

Thailand, a previous country on the list, has been REMOVED, despite rumors earlier in the day (which TPN media did NOT report on) that it wasn’t being removed. This means visitors from the UK can now travel to Thailand without a mandatory quarantine upon return, only having to take a Covid-19 test on the day after their arrival back into the country.

Only seven countries will remain on the UK red list from a previous list of 54.

The seven countries that will remain on the red list are Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Venezuela.

This will be effective from Monday, October 11th, 2021, according to the UK government.


Source - Asian Now

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Thursday, 7 October 2021

Thailand targets $26 billion in local tourism revenue next year

 

 
 BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand aims to generate at least 882 billion baht ($26 billion) in domestic tourism revenue next year, from government measures to revive the struggling sector after a major slump in foreign arrivals.

The Southeast Asian country's economy suffered its deepest fall in more than two decades last year, with the key tourism sector devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. The country plans to soon welcome more vaccinated foreign tourists.
 
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is working with businesses on plans to promote travel, including more flights to key tourist destinations such as Chiang Mai and Phuket later this month, deputy government spokeswoman Traisulee Traisoranakul said in a statement.

"The move is to meet higher demand for travel during the high season, as the outbreak situation has improved and measures to support travel have started," she said.

In the first eight months of 2021, Thailand recorded 127 billion baht in domestic tourism, despite incentives to encourage more local travel

Last year, domestic tourism revenue dropped 55% to 482 billion baht, compared with an 83% plunge in foreign tourist receipts to 332 billion baht.

Thailand received nearly 40 million foreign visitors who spent 1.91 trillion baht in 2019. Its strict visa and quarantine requirements during the pandemic have until recently deterred foreign tourists.

The government last week reduced the quarantine period, however, and will from next month waive that for more vaccinated visitors, expanding a pilot scheme in place on Phuket and Samui islands.
 
Source - Asian Now
 

Tuesday, 5 October 2021

Thailand’s Air Asia flies back into business


 AirAsia increased flights and routes starting 1 October 2021, from its Don Mueang Airport home base.
The services are now in place serving Phitsanulok, Nan, Loei, Sakon Nakhon, Surat Thani, Krabi and Trang.

It is also taking a gamble with an untested route Chiang Mai-Hua Hin starting 15 October. A service from Chiang Mai to Phuket will start on 16 October.

These new routes are in addition to 11 routes that were relaunched in September. AirAsia in Thailand has 20 domestic routes as of this month.

‘We saw an encouraging response across all of our routes in September, achieving a load factor average of 75-80% during weekdays and 90 to 95% at weekends, especially for flights to and from Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and Hat Yai.’

‘With our guests now getting more familiar with the different travel requirements imposed by each province, we believe tourism industry operators will begin to see a stronger recovery during the final quarter of this year.’

However, strict health and safety measures are still in place to reduce the spread of Covid-19 through contactless services and social distancing.  The airline is promoting a Digital Health Pass provided by the Mor Prom application, which displays vaccination records and Covid-19 test results, despite the app’s shortcomings.

It often displays vaccinated records missing important data such as the name and surname.

The airline says it is working closely with the Ministry of Public Health and Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand to develop new service standards to provide passengers peace of mind. It should start with a total overhaul of the Mor Phrom app.

AirAsia encourages all guests to check-in via the AirAsia Super App. Guests should make full use of the AirAsia Super App, the only all-in-one app that guests would need for their journey – from flight to hotel bookings, checking in, through to boarding with the e-Boarding Pass except of course Mor Phrom, which is very unreliable.

Direct flights available for booking in October 2021 from Don Mueang Airport serve the following destinations” Chiang Mai, Phuket, Hat Yai, Chiang Rai, Khon Kaen, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Phitsanulok, Udon Thani, Ubon Ratchathani, Surat Thani, Krabi, Trang, Nakhon Panom, Roi Et, Narathiwat, Nan, Loei, Sakon Nakhon and domestic cross-country connections Chiang Mai-Hua Hin and Chiang Mai-Phuket.

Source - BangkokJack 

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Foreign tourists can now stay for nine months in Thailand

 

Foreign tourists can now stay in Thailand for up to nine months without the need to travel abroad and have their visas extended, three months on the initial visa with two extensions of three months each.
Thailand’s Ministry of Interior says the new rules came into effect on October 1st, and are valid until September 30th next year, in a bid to boost the tourism industry.

Foreign tourists will, however, have to meet certain requirements to qualify as long stayers.

First of all, they must agree to a period of quarantine, as part of the Public Health Ministry’s measures to contain the spread of COVID-19, and must show booking receipts from the hotels in which they will isolate.

This is despite Thailand claiming they are lifting quarantine requirements for all visitors on November 1st.

Then, they must show evidence of payments for their lodgings during their stay in the kingdom, which can be a rented house, a rented condominium room or a title deed of a condominium room.

Meaning, you must pay in advance for your nine-month’s accommodation and if you are denied entry at the border then good luck in getting that back.

They are also required to have health insurance, with a minimum of US$ 100,000 cover for COVID-19 treatment valid for the entire period of their stay in the country.

They must also have health and accident insurance coverage of 40,000 baht for out-patient treatment and 400,000 baht for in-patient treatment.

Having met the requirements, tourists will be granted a special tourist visa (STV), which is for single use and will allow them to stay in Thailand for 90 days, which can extended twice by 90 days per extension.

The visa extension fee is 2,000 baht (US$60) each time.

Still want to go to Thailand…?

Source - BangkokJack

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Thursday, 4 March 2021

Songkran in Thailand to go ahead next month - with some water splashing

Songkran festivities are set to go ahead next month, providing activities comply with measures put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19.

Yuthasak Supasorn, Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand told Daily News that Songkran events will definitely be held in Thailand this year and that TAT plans to organize events to celebrate the Thai New Year.

The TAT chief said Songkran would take place between 10-15 April 2021.
Meanwhile, Sanook reported that the traditional water splashing activities will go ahead on Khaosan Road.  

Citing Culture Minister Itthiphol Kunplome, the event can go ahead providing strict disease control measures are in place.  

The government hopes the Songkran festival will boost domestic tourism and stimulate the beleaguered economy.

This is a developing news story.


Source - ThaiVisa

Wednesday, 3 March 2021

A passport to go to the bar? Intriguing possibility of "vaccine passport" to visit entertainment venues in Thailand


A passport to go to the bar? Intriguing possibility of "vaccine passport" to visit entertainment venues in Thailand

It may not be only international travel that is affected by plans being mulled and put into place in several countries for "vaccine passports".

They may have an impact on what people can do with ease domestically.

Thai news site The Standard rounded-up the latest situation regarding vaccine passports.
In their preamble they said that once you needed a visa to visit a country. But the pandemic changed much of that.

After Covid-19 took the world by surprise you needed a "Covid-19 free certificate" to travel.
Now it is increasingly looking like you might need proof of having been vaccinated before you can go abroad.

But as they pointed out the so-called vaccine passport is not just for international movement.
Such a document could be mandated to enter places where large numbers of people congregate in close proximity.
That would mean "the entertainment industry and sporting events" as The Standard pointed out.
So it might be necessary to hold a document to go to a pub, beer bar or disco in the future.
That would mean an even greater urgency to get vaccinated for people who enjoy a beverage or a night out.

The article did not say that this was yet being mulled in Thailand but it appears that all suggestions are currently on the table.

The Ministry of Public Health have already published infographics of the step by step process of how vaccination will work.

This includes online notifications of jabs and other protocols about receiving vaccinations. A step-by-step way forward has been announced.

The Standard noted that Israel has already issued a "Green Pass" that is a kind of vaccine passport (VP) that appears to be for internal use.

Source - ThaiVisa

Tuesday, 26 January 2021

The puzzle that opens the gate of Light

 

The puzzle that opens the gate of Light
The events in the past year have forced us to see, feel and understand the gates of control that create duality and seperation in humanity.
I would like to bring you back a few centuries before I can show you the connection between our loss of freedom, rights and the peace in our hearts, to the moment we are navigating right now.
The connection between the Covid smoke screen, the Biden movie and the Ascension of humanity.
The connection that has to errupt in the Event to open the gates and set us free.
Some puzzle questions to elude the thinking Mind, that has been so caught up with election fraude, that we forget to question why and where governments have become dirty with and with what?
Here we go:
What is the relation between royalty, elections, corona, the vatican, governments and energy?
Why was reincarnation removed from the bible centuries a go?
Why were we led to believe that there is a heaven and there is a hell?
Why are we all growing up with the conditioning of death as the end of excistence?
Why was humanity cut of from inate spirituality and separated in religion, race and politics?
Why do we believe God is an institution that can be found in a church?
Why do we believe that Love is something you need to deserve and find in someone else?
God is in you and in me, all around us, everywhere.
God is not out there, judging and ruling.
A long long time a go humanity was led a stray from our inate spiritual abilities and our connection through the earth grid ley lines to the Divine Source.
Deceived by a small group of people.
Separated from the God and Love we all are.
Seperated in the dark for centuries.
This small group is know as the Elite.
A dark force that benefits and literally feasts and thrives on the energy of fear and control.
This small group of so called elites, have continued over the course of centuries to control humanity by keeping them controlled under religious and government laws in fear and seperation in many, many ways.
Through religion, politics, banking, hollywood, pharmacy, education, media they have systematiclly rolled out their agenda of control throughout history.
Into the agenda of the year 2020/2021.
All under the covers of pandemic mind manipulation, frauding elections laws under the misuse of we the people,s trust.
Nothing is what is seemes.
Nothing.
They have build their churches on the earth Ley lines, to block and steel the energies for the purpose of dark control.
These leylines are the earth grid Wifi connected to the Universal ethers for the transmutation of frequencies of Unconditional Love for all.
This is our Life Force Energy!
Religion preaches separation meaning you’re separate from “Source”.
That is all an illusion.
Controlling the mass into believing that humans, this life, the Universe and even God is so much less than what is really our Truth.
Made to believe that we are completly dependend of external validation from God and from systems for our survival.
For centuries we have handed over our authority to land lords, royals and rulers.
We have grown blind and accustomed to these control systems.
We have been held into perceiving all this as “normal.
We have been living in a false illusion.
Due to incoming waves of Light and the incarnation of so many old wise autonomous souls over the past decades, times have changed.
We have gradually become more concious and able to see and hold the Light over the years to withstand and fight the darkness that is now about to fall.
Year by year, step by step we have come closer to the revalation of the Fall of the Elite.
The revelation from Dark to Light.
This is the Great Awakening.
A flood of Light will remove all darkness once the gates have been opened.
A storm will clear this planet for the heaven on earth that we can create together.
Together we can then build new ways of balance, of peace, of unconditional Love.
It is up to us to navigate this storm, to stay positive and remain in our hearts.
When we get through this storm we can start.
Start shinning our Light.
Start educating our childeren how to look after healing humanity and this planet with oneness conciousness and awarness of quantum spiritual and scientific universal laws.
Instead of learning how to lead a 9-5 job-mortgage-pension rat race life in fear and constant stress of failure, because of the illusion of separation and death.
Remember, darkness is just the absence of light. We will eventually become one with the Light.
We are the Light.
We are Love.
Were we go one we go all.
It is time.
Our souls are calling.
It is time for the Great Awakening 

Arthur - Danielle Stotijn