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• Thailand’s new entry regulations prompt tourists to cancel trips, tour agencies say

  “These regulations affect tour operators as unvaccinated tourists have cancelled their trips to Thailand,”

  

• Thai gov’t approves longer stays for tourists with visa on arrival

  This means that Filipino tourists in Thailand can stay up to 45 days, 15 days more than the usual maximum of 30 days. This is a temporary measure which will last until March next year.

  

• Thailand issues new relaxed entry rules for airlines and passengers

  Entry requirements are being relaxed in a bid to boost foreign tourist arrivals in the second half of the year.

  

• 400,000 passengers expected at Thai airports for Songkran

  Department of Airports Director General Ampawan Wannako 404,773 passengers to flock 25 airports around Thailand for the Songkran holidays on April 11-17. That is an estimated of 57,000 plus passengers a day. Domestic flights projections this year is at 365,891 up from last year’s 347,423 while an estimated of 38,882 international passengers are expected to […]

  

• Picture of tourist sitting on Buddha’s lap draws flak among Thais

  Thai social media went abuzz after a picture of an unidentified tourist was uploaded online, specifically on Facebook, where a woman is shown sitting on the lap of a Buddha statue in Wat Yai Chai Mongkol.   The woman, believed to have Asian descent, has received backlash online. Netizens are also calling on the authorities […]

  

• Tourists banned from Sangkhlaburi Immigration as tension rises

  Approximately 200 Mons, mostly elderly, women and children have sought refuge at Wat Songkaria Trainimit on Sangkhlaburi district after they were sieged by Burmese forces Wednesday night.