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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing sort of like a one-off Visa, single Visa scheme. This has been in discussion for quite some time. I've done videos on the possibility of an ASEAN Visa; I even was blogging about it some 15 years ago. This has been talked about for a while, been difficult to promulgate anything, bring anything to fruition on this. I'm hesitant to say with any degree of certainly that this will happen any time soon but it's not impossible, it definitely could happen. 

That said, I thought of making this video after reading a recent article from the Pattaya Mail, pattayamail.com, the article is titled: Neighboring countries look to Thailand for Visa reform. Quoting directly: "Thailand is heading up discussions with Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia to seek agreement that a Tourist Visa or Pass for one country means travellers can visit all five without further bureaucracy. The Thai Premiere's advisor Prommin Lertsuridej said. "Thailand will lead negotiations for tourists to require one entry visa to travel amongst us." Yeah I think this is overall a pretty darn good idea. I'm glad to see that the Government is taking this stuff seriously and trying to promote this kind of Tourism. I wonder if it will come to fruition most assuredly because they mentioned bureaucracy in that article, and as usual I urge those who are watching this video go check out that article in detail. But they mentioned bureaucracy in that article and I don't mean to be cynical here but I have never noticed bureaucracies ever go away. If anything, bureaucracies get bigger. Now whether or not this would cause that bureaucracy to shrink, I don't know that that's the case. If anything all these different countries might add an extra Bureau to their Immigration Divisions which deals specifically with this one size fits all Pass if you will. That said, from a consumer standpoint, I definitely see the benefits and I can definitely see how this could improve tourism numbers here in the Kingdom of Thailand.