Thailand to reduce visa approval time for Chinese tourists

The tourism industry had been complaining that the approval time was currently too long since it had taken only 3-5 working days to issue visas in pre-Covid times.

China was Thai tourism's biggest overseas market in 2019 as 11 million visited the country, accounting for 28% of arrivals.

There were one million Chinese tourists between January and May 18 this year, and the Thai government expects to achieve its target of five million during the full year.