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Long Stayers: The Savior of Thai Tourism?

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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing Long Stay Visa holders.

Folks who come to Thailand, I have always called them long stayers, folks who come to Thailand, in the past they would often use multi-entry Non-Immigrant Visas oftentimes issued for a year. Sometimes they would use Tourist Visas. There was a time they were called triple entry tourist visas where you could essentially get three tourist visas stamped into one passport simultaneously and then come and use those in Thailand, very similar to what we now call the Special Tourist Visa scheme. 

I am basically making this video out of a desire to go ahead and discuss the notion that perhaps these long stayers could in fact be the Savior of Thai Tourism in a more general sense. What we are talking about here is basically folks who are coming to Thailand, not to stay for a couple of weeks which was the case in the past, you would get a lot of people coming to Thailand to stay for just 2 weeks at a time. That is not overly feasible in the quarantine era where we have to deal with the two weeks quarantine at least for now. Hopefully that will end at some point in the nearer rather than further future but for now we have got to deal with the quarantine and hopefully although we won't deal with it forever but we have got to deal with it now. Long stayers, the quarantine is a bump on the road to further status in Thailand. If you are staying for 9 months, two weeks of quarantine is kind of a pain in the rear but it is certainly not something that is insurmountable. We have seen the number of folks avail themselves of the Special Tourist Visa in recent months. 

So I am making this video, perhaps you could call it an opinion piece. Just an observation that maybe long stayers could actually be the salvation for tourism, at least for the short term, here in Thailand.