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Thailand’s economy, heavily reliant on tourism, has been severely impacted—visitor numbers plummeted from nearly 40 million in 2019 to just over 6 million in 2020. The government aims to reopen popular destinations such as Phuket by October, with plans for quarantine elimination for vaccinated tourists. However, vaccination rates remain low among frontline workers, and domestic skepticism persists, with some industry players awaiting more concrete evidence that reopening can be safe.