Pandemic reveals bitter truth of income gap
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Popular YouTuber stirs debate about the real potential of Thais' ability to travel
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2 Jun 2021 at 05:42
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Thai outbound tourism was considered to be a lucrative market with over 10 million trips recorded per year prior to the Covid-19 outbreak. Seksan Rojjanametakul
While local residents are feeling anxious over long-awaited vaccinations that the government has promised to roll out from next week, contrasting scenes have been seen in recent weeks as wealthy people have chosen not to wait but fly across the world to the US to get Covid-19 vaccines.
Last week, a controversial debate sprang up on social media when popular Thai travel vlogger known as "Mint -- I Roam Alone", who has 5 million subscribers, faced criticism for sharing her opinion that the one positive thing she has learned from Covid-19 is how much travel should be cherished now that the pandemic has shattered dreams of foreign trips for over a year.