Badly behaving visitors push Thailand to remove 60-day visa entry

Badly behaving visitors push Thailand to remove 60-day visa entry



Each morning, people in Thailand wake up to the latest viral videos on social media of drunken punch-ups, thefts, scams or acts of public indecency committed by some foreign tourists.

After months of warnings, Thailand on May 19 announced the cancellation of its 60-day visa-free entry rules for 93 countries and territories in a bid to curb crime, antisocial behaviour and abuse of the visa privilege by a portion of the tens of millions of tourists who have visited the kingdom annually.

Visitors from 54 countries and territories will get a 30-day visa exemption. A new 15-day visa exemption scheme will apply to visitors from three countries and territories.




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