Alex wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:53 pm I think the arrival numbers as such aren't really a good indicator for tourism recovery in particular.

I've visited Cambodia twice within the last two months, simply because it's so simple now. So upon my return to Thailand, I've been counted as "two tourists" from my country already, although I live here in Thailand. And I'll go again next month, as well as to a number of other countries. Many other expats are now traveling a lot more again, too.

Cowshed Cowboy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 6:08 pm

Alex wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:53 pm I think the arrival numbers as such aren't really a good indicator for tourism recovery in particular.

I've visited Cambodia twice within the last two months, simply because it's so simple now. So upon my return to Thailand, I've been counted as "two tourists" from my country already, although I live here in Thailand. And I'll go again next month, as well as to a number of other countries. Many other expats are now traveling a lot more again, too.

I don't know the answer to this but do you know for sure that you are recorded in the system as a tourist given you are not on a tourist visa and are coming in on a re-entry permit ? I don't know what the immigration officer types into his screen but I would have thought it would be an easy exercise to get the visa classification correct. If they were recording every foreign arrival as a tourist surely it would result in ridiculous and false levels of tourist numbers from Myannmar, Cambodia and Laos. There is zero benefit to Thailand inaccurately recording its arrivals.

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:28 pm Direct daily flights between Bangkok and Siem Reap, the Cambodian tourism mecca and home to the world’s largest religious complex Angkor Wat, will launch again on August 1. Flights to the former capital of former Burma, Yangon (nee Rangoon) will also resume on August 1 despite the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar since the military junta overthrew the government last February.

Bangkok Airways will then resume flight service to the former French colonial port of Da Nang, a coastal beach destination in central Vietnam. Direct flights will start again on September 1.

Alex wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:53 pm I think the arrival numbers as such aren't really a good indicator for tourism recovery in particular.

I've visited Cambodia twice within the last two months, simply because it's so simple now. So upon my return to Thailand, I've been counted as "two tourists" from my country already, although I live here in Thailand. And I'll go again next month, as well as to a number of other countries. Many other expats are now traveling a lot more again, too.

Doc67 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 8:32 am Is Soi Cowboy and Nana Plaza fully open again?

Anything like pre 2019 or am I dreaming?

Also, Patong in Phuket, is that up and running again or still a ghost town?