BANGKOK, July 6 (TNA) – Foreign tourists are actively arriving in the country after full country reopening started on July 1, according to the Immigration Bureau.
Immigration police commissioner Pol Lt Gen Pakpoompipat Sajjapan said that after the complete country reopening on July 1, foreigners kept arriving and most of them came from Malaysia, followed by those from India, Singapore, Britain and the United States.
From July 1 to 4, 162,383 people arrived and 132,409 people left the country. The traffic rose by nearly 50% from the same period in June. Last month 869,140 people arrived.
The immigration police chief said arrivals had steadily increased since January. As of July 4, 2,694,708 people arrived and 2,581,762 people left the country. Most of them were tourists.
He also said that the government’s decision to suspend visitors’ use of the TM6 immigration form would not pave the way for illegal immigration. The policy was aimed at relieving congestion at airports and immigration police still had other measures to screen foreigners, Pol Lt Gen Pakpoompipat said. (TNA)
