Two excellent tourist sites make their boundaries more flexible: one is less vaccinated and the other is more restricted to visitors.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs From Thailand It announced this week that it intends to reopen borders for tourists from November 1st List of 40 countries selected and fully vaccinated. However, the move has raised suspicions as part of the community A small percentage of the population in the country is vaccinated.

According to Our world in data, More than 40% of the Thai population received both doses of the vaccine Against Govt-19. Very low percentage compared to its regional neighbors Malaysia, Singapore And Cambodia More than 70% of the population is fully vaccinated.

“Despite impressive and commendable vaccine efforts, the complete vaccine is relatively inexpensive and inconsistent.Economists said Bank of America After the official announcement. “In other countries it is clear that the vaccination rate, especially with the delta variant, is too low to prevent an outbreak.“They added.

The move aims to mitigate the negative impact on the economy of closing borders to tourism, which has been in place since 2020, and this health risk operates in an effort to restore the country’s economic performance. According to officials, this is the time to take risks because they understand that the economic cost outweighs the potential health costs..

Thailand’s economy is one of the region’s most dependent on tourism, accounting for 21% of its GDP in 2019. According to the economist Oxford Economics Sean Fenner. Due to further border restrictions, the country’s economic recovery has lagged behind that of regional neighbors.

However, tourism levels are expected to be lower than in the pre-Kovit period. “We expect incoming tourism to recover in 2022, but even then we expect international arrivals to be 66% lower than the 2019 level“Fenner said,”In fact, we do not expect incoming trips to pre-Govt levels to fully recover by 2025.⁇

Other countries Asia They open their borders to tourism, which is a factor influencing the government’s decision, although the percentage of vaccines in these other countries is high.

More avoided than the mother country. Charnon பூன்னுச், An economist at the Japanese Investment Fund Nomura, Believes that “The need to reopen has increased as competition from neighboring countries, such as Singapore, which has relaxed border controls, has increased, with a complete vaccination rate of 85% higher.”.

Goodbye to strict restrictions?

For its part, New Zealand Even Announced the easing of restrictions imposed in March 2020 For Govit-19 infection. Chris Hipkins, The minister in charge of dealing with the epidemic, announced that travelers from some countries will be available from November Oceania -What Samoa, Tonga And வனுவாடு– They will be exempted from isolation upon arrival in the country.

Passengers from other parts of the world must still be isolated at a government-selected hotel, but if they have a full immunization plan, Imprisonment days will be reduced from 14 to 7. According to Hipkins, the plan is to move towards a self-regulated isolation program of passenger choice starting in 2022.It is time to re-open to the world. We could not be locked behind the walls of New Zealand’s castleHipkins told a news conference.

New Zealand is one of the countries that has adopted strict restrictions on the closure of its borders and has previously implemented them, thus closing the possibility of visiting one of the most coveted tourist destinations in the world. Now, following the same line that maintains itself as one of the most closed countries to foreigners, it is moving towards a system of compulsory isolation, while other parts of the world are moving away from this system to full openness.

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