Why are Chinese tourists being allowed back into Thailand?

Everything is relative.

Thai economy , moreso it's people need it so badly.

Why not. China is almost Covid free. They follow the health guidelines and are the biggest investors.

Thailand needs tourism.

Western countries are mired in Covid at the moment.

US has 50,000 a day.

Thats what they said last time. It wont happen more egg on thier face

Too bad the Chinese don't spend. Like at all. Zero baht.

Won't benefit the Thai economy one bit as all money will be funneled back to the Motherland.

" The next phase of tourism reopening could see the time quarantined inside hotel rooms halved to seven days. This might see visitors allowed to spend the next seven days outside their rooms but not outside their hotels." 🤣🤭🤣🤐🤣🤭😂😅🤭🤣😂😁😅🤫 and they forget to add that this easement should for low risk country ! 🤣😅🤭😅🤣😆😂😂

As they should , they are the biggest investor. Thais are decendants at some level. Many can drive thru Myanma, or short flight.

Nobody will come, according how things are now!!!

Too bad Chinese never spend any money in Thailand. Not a single baht. Zero dollar = zero baht.

They used to complain about drop of tourists last year now they happy about 120 tourists?

What kind of joke is that. They lost 40 million tourists if continuing like this

This stuff does not add up! 30 days holidays with 14 days quarantine is a joke... these guys (if they exist?) are returnees, not tourist!

They deserve what they get. They have sold out to the Chinese with their Belt Road initiative. I wont becoming back anymore.

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I just hope they dont screw with my tourism plans next month. You know prices are raised because demand is higher.

Well considering China own Thailand, it’s only right I guess

And they'll be spending their cash at Thai businesses? Yeah right!

"Both groups will stay in Thailand for 30 days and will spend the first 14 days in Alternative State Quarantine"

What a nice holidays !

Another exercise of amazing wishful thinking. Someone up there is underestimating Chinese people. Someone up there thinks that they are stupid enough to spend at least 50% of their holidays locked in an hotel room. Good luck with this.

Even though the first detected cases outside China were Chinese tourists, they were not the ones that spread the virus in Thailand. If you had followed the news reports concerning Chinese tourists before this virus, you would know that they were heavily controlled by their tour operators, dictating where they visited, who they came in direct contact with, and most importantly where they were allowed to spend their money. They did not have free days to explore Thailand on their own. Many were even told by their tour operators that Thailand was a very dangerous place, and if they went out on their own they would be robbed and assaulted. There are only two recorded incidences of Thais getting the virus from Chinese, and contact tracing was immediately done. One was a taxi driver, and the other was a health care worker. What is interesting about these STV tourists coming in, is the first group entering on the 20th are businessmen, not tourists. I speculate they are arriving first to re-establish the tourist infrastructure for the Chinese tourists that were in place before this virus, with every place they visited, and spent money at , under Chinese business control, and again making sure all the profit went directly back to China, just as it was before this virus.

great news. most chinese cities haven't had any infections for half a year. and chinese are the most important nationality for thailand's tourism industry (by a factor of 10).

dont care

this will not happen

Surely the criteria should be which countries are handling it the best? When Thai government intelligence services see the plethora of videos from countries such as the UK, where people are staging mass demonstrations against wearing face masks and screeching "human rights violations", does it not occur to people that the Thais look at each other, smile, and say "Is that what we want to let into our country?", and "United Kingdom" on the list gets a very firm line drawn through it.

They said that Chinese tourists were going to be arriving a few weeks ago. But it never happened, because although Thailand prepared themselves for it. No Chinese actually booked any flights. I suspect, the same is happening now with this story. No one is coming here.

"The country that started it all"? It might have started there (also unsure) but it is definitely not the country that started it. The article luckily doesn't say that.