Thailand to reopen Phuket to vaccinated tourists from July

Thailand has permitted foreigners who have been vaccinated against Covid to enter Phuket without having to undergo mandatory hotel quarantine.

Yuthasak Supasorn, the governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, who prefers to call this experiment the ‘Phuket sandbox model’, said that the exercise would begin from July onwards. By July, the authorities expect to inoculate almost 70 per cent of the population in Phuket.
Supasorn also announced that from April onwards, the current hotel quarantine period of 14 days will be halved to seven days for fully vaccinated visitors to Chiang Mai, Krabi, Pattaya, Phuket, Koh Samui and Phang Nga. From October onwards, the government plans to extend the quarantine waiver model to five more destinations within the country.