People take pictures inside a decorated tunnel linking a train station to a department store amid the coronavirus disease pandemic in Bangkok on Tuesday (Nov 23, 2021). - Reuters
BANGKOK, Nov 23 (Reuters): Thailand welcomed 20,272 foreign tourists in October, up from 1,201 foreign arrivals in the same period a year earlier, tourism ministry data showed on Tuesday, due to a pilot tourism programme on the islands of Phuket and Samui.
The scheme was launched ahead of the South-East Asian country's wider quarantine-free reopening on Nov 1, aimed at restarting its important tourism sector that has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic.
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