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2 People Per Hour Were Killed In Road Accidents In Thailand In 2020

27 Mar, 2022

A Thai health foundation has found that two people were killed in road accidents every hour in Thailand in 2020. The total number of people killed in road accidents throughout that year was 17,831.

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‘Thailand Pass’ And ‘Test & Go’ May End Within Months After Songkran Holidays

26 Mar, 2022

The Ministry of Sports and Tourism will submit additional proposals to the CCSA after accessing the situation in April, which could lead to the cancellation of the Test and Go scheme and Thailand Pass on July 1st, 2022.

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Thailand Urged To Adopt Hassle-free “Cambodian Model” Entry Rules

25 Mar, 2022

The Thai tourist ministry is to urge the Cabinet to abolish altogether the Test and Go and Sandbox entry procedures as early as June 1.

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Travel Rules Eased If Caseload Decreases

25 Mar, 2022

The Test and Go scheme and Thailand Pass registration are expected to be scrapped by June 1 if there is no surge in infections or fatalities during the Songkran festival in April

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Outrigger Set Out Songkran Specials

24 Mar, 2022

Newly opened Outrigger Surin Beach Resort in Phuket and Outrigger Khao Lak Beach Resort have created special value-added deals for Thai residents and ex-pats for the Songkran holiday, 11 to 17 April 2022.

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Centara Reopens Phuket Resort

24 Mar, 2022

Centara Hotels & Resorts, Thailand’s leading hotel operator, announces the much-anticipated reopening of Centara Karon Resort Phuket on 1 April 2022.

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Latest Opening And Closing Status Of Thailand’s National Parks

23 Mar, 2022

The latest update on the opening/closing status of national parks in Thailand, covering both the annual seasonal closure for the rainy months and temporary closure resulting from the COVID-19 measures.

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Pattaya Remains In ‘Blue Zone’ To Welcome Arrivals In Sandbox Program

23 Mar, 2022

10 provinces including Chonburi (Pattaya City) re-categorized as ‘Blue Zone’

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Dry Songkran Celebrations In Pattaya Again This Year

23 Mar, 2022

here will be no parades or water fights, and with water off the menu, the only events left for Songkran are services organized by the Education, Religious and Culture Promotion for Education Office at Lan Po Public Park in Naklua on April 18 and Chaimongkol Temple in South Pattaya on April 19.

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Tourism Officials Push For All Entry Restrictions For Vaccinated Travellers To Be Lifted By June 1

22 Mar, 2022

Thailand’s tourism officials want an end to all entry restrictions for vaccinated travellers by June 1.

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Tourism Ministry Wants All Travel Restrictions Removed By June 1 If Covid Rate Drops

22 Mar, 2022

Tourism and Sports Ministry will propose removing all travel restrictions on June 1 if the Covid-19 situation improves.

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Thailand To Dump Pre-flight PCR Test

21 Mar, 2022

Thailand’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) approved on Friday the lifting of the pre-travel testing requirement for international arrivals starting 1 April.

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Race To End Restrictions

21 Mar, 2022

While the government plans to declare Covid-19 endemic on July 1, many in the business sector would like a more rapid rollback

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Thailand Ranks 61 In Annual Happiness Index

20 Mar, 2022

Thailand ranked 61st in the annual World Happiness Index but is the third happiest country in Southeast Asia, according to the World Happiness Report 2022.

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CCSA Creates Roadmap To Shifting Covid-19 From Pandemic To Endemic

20 Mar, 2022

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) on Friday came up with a roadmap for declaring Covid-19 an endemic disease.

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Cambodia Drops Covid Testing Requirements For Overseas Visitors

19 Mar, 2022

Cambodia on Thursday dispensed with a requirement for visitors from overseas to take Covid-19 tests, as the country moved ahead of most neighbours by relaxing most restrictions to spur more investment and tourism, officials said.

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Vietnam Brings Back Visa-exempt Travel

19 Mar, 2022

Vietnam has resumed its visa exemption policy for citizens from 13 countries

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Mixed Reactions To Scrapping Tests

19 Mar, 2022

Tourism operators call for more restrictions to be lifted in line with other countries

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Cambodia Clears The Way For Hassle-free Arrivals

18 Mar, 2022

Industry players have high hopes that a snap decision to scrap pre-travel PCR test and rapid test on arrival will lure more holidaymakers to Cambodia.

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Pre-travel Covid Tests For Arrivals Lifted From April 1

18 Mar, 2022

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration on Friday resolved to discontinue the requirement that visitors pass a pre-travel Covid-19 test, from April 1, but testing on arrival will continue.

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Thailand CCSA To Debate Legally Reopening Bars, Clubs, With Heavy Restrictions

18 Mar, 2022

The Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration said it would debate allowing Thailand’s nightlife industry to reopen fully and legally. When, however, remains the question.

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TAT Offers Guide To Thai Beaches As Travel Measures Start Easing

18 Mar, 2022

With preventive measures for new arrivals easing since March 1, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has published guidelines on when the country’s beaches are at their best.

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Songkran Rules In Works

18 Mar, 2022

Water fights pose high risk of infection

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Pre-travel Tests To Be Dropped

17 Mar, 2022

4-step plan to 'endemic' status

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Nightspots Hail End To Covid Restrictions

17 Mar, 2022

Night entertainment operators have welcomed the news that the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) will consider allowing them to resume business activities.

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AirAsia Thailand To Resume 18 International Routes Next Month

17 Mar, 2022

AirAsia Thailand will recommence international flights from Don Mueang, Phuket and Hat Yai airports, servicing 18 routes to seven countries in Asia.

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Nok Air Cancels Flights From Betong Merely A Day After Inaugural Flight

16 Mar, 2022

Nok Air cancelled flights from Yala’s Betong International Airport just a day after Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his Cabinet flew into the airport with much fanfare on Monday on the first commercial flight.

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Thailand’s Action Plan To Reduce Human-elephant Conflicts Bears Fruit

16 Mar, 2022

The Department of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation (DNP) has developed a 10-year action plan to reduce human-elephant conflicts that have occurred in areas where elephants and local residents share the same habitats and compete for the same resources.

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Covid-19 Crisis Deals Heavy Blow To Chiang Mai Elephant Park

15 Mar, 2022

Chiang Mai’s Maetaeng Elephant Park and Clinic has sustained more than 100 million baht in losses over the past three years and the owner is looking to sell the outfit.

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Swimming Pools Built For Monkeys In Lop Buri To Prevent Aggression From Heat

15 Mar, 2022

With Thailand entering the summer season, macaque monkeys in the country’s “Monkey City,” Lop Buri, have a swimming pool to cool them off

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