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rogerrabbit wrote: Fri Sep 10, 2021 12:03 am Little bird told me that they are currently planning to open country in November or December for vaccinated tourist. 1-2 test still needed as well as 5-7 days quarantine in hotel. Let's see if it comes true. I would have hoped they would ditch quarantine totally or at least reduce 1-2 days or until your test results are done. Week is too long.
If the vaccinated tourists have to do a quarantine of 5-7 days in hotel, no real tourists will come to Cambodia. Otherwise if the quarantine could be done in an area as Siem Reap or the islands.
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rogerrabbit wrote: Fri Sep 10, 2021 12:03 am Little bird told me that they are currently planning to open country in November or December for vaccinated tourist. 1-2 test still needed as well as 5-7 days quarantine in hotel. Let's see if it comes true. I would have hoped they would ditch quarantine totally or at least reduce 1-2 days or until your test results are done. Week is too long.
Any period in quarantine is too long. They either believe the vaccination credentials and negative pre-flight Covid test, or they don't. (However, they ought to be very choosy which countries to accept those credentials from).

Any further testing on arrival will make arrivals slow and cumbersome but it could be done with the rapid antigen tests with the results is 20 minutes. Any positives can be made to quarantine, fair enough, but once negative at the airport, you are free to go. That will attract tourists.

Any enforced period in hotels is illogical and just shows the fogginess of their thinking. Europe and America - north, central and south - are either fully open or effectively so, with only a pre flight test, and many of those countries have lower vaccination rates than Cambodia. Plus Cambodia has got Delta and that will become the only strain in a few months. The have the worst version and the sky hasn't fallen in yet.

The world is opening up and Cambodia is perfectly positioned to be the only practical destination in SE Asia this side of Christmas and could really cash in, for the many, not just the few.

Will it blow it's chance? Probably.
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September 16, 2021
Cambodian tourism sector anger as Vietnam and Thailand partially open for tourists – but Kingdom remains firmly shut

Cambodia’s hospitality industry is up in arms after Vietnam and Thailand partially open for tourists, under strict conditions, but the Kingdom remains firmly shut to such trials despite being more in control of the pandemic.

This comes as news broke that Vietnam’s Phu Quoc Island will be open for “fully vaccinated” tourists from the beginning of November for a period of six months as a trial and to boost tourism in the country.

In Thailand, vaccinated visitors will be able to visit five provinces from Oct 1: Bangkok, Chiangmai, Chonburi, Phetchaburi and Prachuap Khiri Khan, which will follow the hugely successful “Sandbox” model piloted in Phuket, which has seen a revenue of around $50 million and seen 27,609 tourists from July 1 to Sept 3.

A former hotelier on Koh Rong by the name of Richards said: “Cambodia is already 80 percent vaccinated with two doses. If you can’t open the borders now, when can you? How can Phu Quoc open when Vietnam has only vaccinated about 12 percent of the whole country’s population, assuming they have had two doses?”

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh explained that the rules to enter the country are simple: Visitors will be required to have their second dose of a recognised vaccine at least 14 days prior to travelling to the paradise island, and no more than 12 months previously, along with a negative PCR test result within 72 hours of departing.

The Thailand Sandbox model means that fully vaccinated tourists can visit specific destinations as long as they follow strict rules of staying within a certain area for a period of time (seven to 14 days) and undergoing Covid-19 tests at different times until eventually being able to travel freely.
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Doc67 wrote: Fri Sep 10, 2021 7:30 am
rogerrabbit wrote: Fri Sep 10, 2021 12:03 am Little bird told me that they are currently planning to open country in November or December for vaccinated tourist. 1-2 test still needed as well as 5-7 days quarantine in hotel. Let's see if it comes true. I would have hoped they would ditch quarantine totally or at least reduce 1-2 days or until your test results are done. Week is too long.
Any period in quarantine is too long. They either believe the vaccination credentials and negative pre-flight Covid test, or they don't. (However, they ought to be very choosy which countries to accept those credentials from).

Any further testing on arrival will make arrivals slow and cumbersome but it could be done with the rapid antigen tests with the results is 20 minutes. Any positives can be made to quarantine, fair enough, but once negative at the airport, you are free to go. That will attract tourists.

The new saliva testing, supposed to be more accurate than swab tests, are simply a matter of spitting in a cup. Ideal especially for Chinese tourists. Pre-flight tests?
Always regarded with some suspicion: a person with a negative pre-flight cert can test positive on arrival - miraculous or suspect certs? Lets face it, all you need is photoshop, a convincing stamp and an illegible signature, the immigration people are hardly going to call an obscure clinic in Uttar Pradesh to check.
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hdgh29 wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 10:57 am
Doc67 wrote: Fri Sep 10, 2021 7:30 am
rogerrabbit wrote: Fri Sep 10, 2021 12:03 am Little bird told me that they are currently planning to open country in November or December for vaccinated tourist. 1-2 test still needed as well as 5-7 days quarantine in hotel. Let's see if it comes true. I would have hoped they would ditch quarantine totally or at least reduce 1-2 days or until your test results are done. Week is too long.
Any period in quarantine is too long. They either believe the vaccination credentials and negative pre-flight Covid test, or they don't. (However, they ought to be very choosy which countries to accept those credentials from).

Any further testing on arrival will make arrivals slow and cumbersome but it could be done with the rapid antigen tests with the results is 20 minutes. Any positives can be made to quarantine, fair enough, but once negative at the airport, you are free to go. That will attract tourists.

The new saliva testing, supposed to be more accurate than swab tests, are simply a matter of spitting in a cup. Ideal especially for Chinese tourists. Pre-flight tests?
Always regarded with some suspicion: a person with a negative pre-flight cert can test positive on arrival - miraculous or suspect certs? Lets face it, all you need is photoshop, a convincing stamp and an illegible signature, the immigration people are hardly going to call an obscure clinic in Uttar Pradesh to check.
Funny you should say that. Canada does not accept any Covid-19 certificates from India at all. They have now also added Morocco to their shit-list. In India it is cheaper and easier to get a fake one than a real one. Add in the discomfort and possible positive result. Why bother with the real thing if a fake one is quicker, easier, cheaper and with a 100% guarantee of being negative.

This is why the UK was overrun with Delta when the exodus from India came fleeing back in March and April, and the craven UK authorities refused to suspend all flights from India (everyone else did!), and ban entry to any one with a travel history to India in the previous 14 days.

Good for Canada.

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I was sent this. Thoughts anyone?

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Doc67 wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 5:33 pm I was sent this. Thoughts anyone?

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Great idea, horrible to implement.
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Thoughts?
If it’s not quarantine, it’s not quarantine. It seems a fanciful workaround to a problem, by someone not sufficiently able to comprehend the situation.

If you are vaccinated, there is better protection against developing a full on Covid condition. There is no such thing as 100%, one way or the other.
If you are tested prior to departure, and then on arrival, you’ve covered the bit where the passenger may be a carrier. There’s every chance that you could pick the bug up and carry it just by being a passenger.

But if you’ve got the all clear, and can comfortably walk around seeing the sights during the proposed 7days, then the 7days forced stay is just a bolster to aid those hotels involved in the quarantine. And superfluous.

Better to set things up to reliably process an increasing number of travellers.
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Sounds like iron Grandpa is just saying things to keep the tourism sector at bay
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Not many will come if they"ll be somewhere "semi-locked" for 7 days.
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