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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing how tourism costs seem to have gone a lot higher. I have discussed this with a lot of clients, folks that are coming in here and maybe just limiting this to tourism isn't quite right, but travel costs of coming to Thailand. 

A recent article from the Pattaya Mail, pattayamail.com, got me thinking about this in earnest. The article is titled: Pattaya Sandbox Idea Still Needs a Whole Lot of Detail. Quoting directly: "A final consideration is the sheer expense of traveling to Thailand. Compared with the pre-pandemic era there are all sorts of extras such as COVID insurance, pre-departure test and until rescinded of course, a 15 night quarantine in a Thai Hotel on arrival. Meanwhile, air tickets will likely rise in price along with demand assuming there is any. Jason Harrington, a UK Corporate Travel Consultant said, 'even without quarantine costs you can certainly add around 1,000 pounds to the cost of a vacation in Thailand in 2021 compared with 2019." I think that is spot on. The travel costs associated with coming to Thailand are certainly higher and I don't see this really going away in 2021. Probably in 2022 we will see things taper off a little bit although that remains to be seen.

It is unfortunately more costly to come to Thailand. Once you are here things are kind of the same. When things were a little bit more open throughout this past year it was actually really nice going places because a lot of places had a lot of discounts in order to drive up business and it was certainly nice to see that. Now exactly how things are going to play out moving forward especially in the aftermath of this latest lockdown, that all remains to be seen but we will certainly update you on this channel situation evolves.