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More than 1,300 visitors arrive in Phuket
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published : 4 Jul 2021 at 06:55 A woman collecting shrimp in the low tide on Rawai beach in Phuket on Thursday. (AFP photo)
PHUKET: More than 1,300 foreign visitors have arrived in Phuket over the past three days under the quarantine-free sandbox scheme.
Nanthasiri Ronnasiri, director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, Phuket Office, said on Saturday 326 tourists arrived at the resort island on Thursday, 514 on Friday and 484 yesterday afternoon, bringing the total number of foreign visitors to 1,324 since the start of the scheme.
Ms Nanthasiri said her Phuket office will collect tourist figures every day which will be made public.
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More than 1,300 visitors arrive in Phuket
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published : 4 Jul 2021 at 06:55 A woman collecting shrimp in the low tide on Rawai beach in Phuket on Thursday. (AFP photo)
PHUKET: More than 1,300 foreign visitors have arrived in Phuket over the past three days under the quarantine-free sandbox scheme.
Nanthasiri Ronnasiri, director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, Phuket Office, said on Saturday 326 tourists arrived at the resort island on Thursday, 514 on Friday and 484 yesterday afternoon, bringing the total number of foreign visitors to 1,324 since the start of the scheme.
Ms Nanthasiri said her Phuket office will collect tourist figures every day which will be made public.
Phuket sandbox attracts almost 1,000
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First arrivals on three THAI flights from Europe greeted warmly at airport
published : 3 Jul 2021 at 14:20
37 Tourists from Frankfurt are greeted by THAI staff at the Phuket international airport on Saturday morning. Three flights from European countries touched down at the airport to bring tourists to the island province under the Phuket sandbox scheme. (Photo: Achadthaya Chuenniran)
PHUKET: Thai Airways International has brought another 122 tourists on three flights from Europe to the resort island, bringing the total number of visitors under the quarantine-free sandbox scheme to almost 1,000.
The three flights from Copenhagen, Frankfurt and Paris carried 158 passengers, 122 of whom disembarked in Phuket, while the rest went on to Bangkok.