Thailand’s leading resort island Phuket has come face-to-face with the reality that its tourism high-season will not see a marked reopening to overseas travellers, says C9 Hotelworks, managing director Bill Barnett.

With rare cases of local COVID-19 transmission in Thailand, health authorities on Saturday said they were puzzled by the new discovery of a local infection from Krabi, a popular resort island in Thailand’s south.

Centra by Centara Maris Resort Jomtien, owned by MJD, received “Hotel of the Year Awards 2020” having achieved the highest points out of Centara Group’s Hotels worldwide in Hospitality Experience Programme (HX) by SGS (Thailand).

The first effective coronavirus vaccine can prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid-19, a preliminary analysis shows.

The Education Ministry has amended regulations governing students' hairstyles and dress code after some children decried the previous code as an infringement of their human rights.

This year’s Thai-styled winter will be colder nationwide by an average of 1C, said Seree Supratid, director of the Climate Change & Disaster Center at Rangsit University.

The Ministry of Tourism and Sports, as well as the Ministry of Public Health, will propose to the Centre for Economic Situation Administration (CESA) to allow foreigners to quarantine in golf clubs, with an aim to serve golfers from four Asian countries.

Passenger demand in September remained highly depressed down 72.8% according to the latest update from the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

The Tourism and Sports Ministry will discuss the option of building a travel bubble for Chinese tourists with the Chinese Embassy, with the aim of drawing visitors from 22 provinces in China that have been free of Covid-19 for more than 150 days.

Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health said on Thursday that the country’s first group of travelers since the COVID-19 border shutdown will begin to venture outdoors as they have completed a 14-day mandatory quarantine in Bangkok.

Thai Airways is getting creative as it looks to raise cash during the travel downturn.

Bankrupt Thai Airways International has put 34 passenger aircraft from its fleet up for sale, hoping to find buyers by the second quarter of next year.

A massive enclosure looking like something out of Jurassic Park will be a new home for some 1,000 monkeys right in the middle of a park in Satun province.

The Three Pagodas border pass in Sangkhla Buri district will remain closed for two more weeks as provincial authorities continue to worry about the coronavirus outbreak in neighbouring Myanmar.

The 2020 World Travel Awards presentations are surviving the Covid-19 pandemic with AirAsia awarded Asia’s Leading Low-Cost Airline for the eighth consecutive year.