January 8th has become the day that the whole world, including Thailand, is watching.

As this is the day the Chinese government begins to relax measures to prevent COVID-19.

in official travel

It will be the first time in more than three years that the Chinese will be able to return to normal life like people in other pilot countries.

"Living with COVID" has already been mentioned before.

From having to live under the iron rules of the policy "Zero Covid" or zero COVID

Facing quarantine or being forced to quarantine, check for infection, update the results of various officials.

After January 8, there is no more to worry about.

One fine day, I'll be knocked on the door of my room and taken to the state detention center.

Or have to allocate a life schedule that

After completing the trip, he had to take another day off to see the symptoms.

For these reasons, the world believes that

next week onwards

A large number of Chinese people will flow to various countries in every direction.

After holding back for a long time until the "Destination" countries, various tourist destinations were worried about whether they could handle this flood or not.

However, from inquiries from Chinese officials on this matter

thus making it known that

We have a lot of misconceptions about Chinese travel.

First of all,

China has never blocked Chinese tourists from leaving the country as usual, but of course returning would be dizzying.

As the length of detention has become a big question whether

Is it worth it to visit?

Are vacation days enough?

Some companies can leave for 5 days, but when they come back they have to detain for 7-8 days or more.

However, the time is not enough

will be fired

Where will you go in the end?

It may take months.

Secondly, which is considered the main factor, the situation of the spread of the COVID-19 virus

in China causing the Chinese authorities to decide to shut down the renewal system or accept

"Passport" (Passport). This is why many Chinese people hold expired passports.

unable to redo

Flying abroad is not to be mentioned.

Only have to wait for a new passport, which on January 8, the Chinese passport extension system will resume service.

But it's not that it can be done immediately.

must start by booking an online queue

Successfully booked, still don't know what day to do it.

The system has not yet informed

and to be given a date and time to make a book

If traveling clearly, you must wait to get a new book at least 15 working days or longer.

This does not include the problem of "document incomplete", having to go back and start the process again, most importantly, the "bottleneck" of requesting documents in different provinces.

Finally, it must wait for approval from the central agency.

Imagine billions or hundreds of millions of people applying for a passport at about the same time.

what will happen

Third, how many flights out of China are there?

"Beijing" not to mention

capital city

There are two protective measures.

Direct flights are not open yet.

Going back to China must travel to secondary cities such as Shanghai, Wuhan, Tianjin, Guangdong, etc., before being able to connect an internal flight back to Beijing.

Some cities have weekly flights to Thailand.

This does not include the exorbitantly expensive ticket price of more than 30,000 baht or more.

Anyone who has flown before the COVID-19 situation

The price of the first ten thousand

Or thousands of promotions may be unbearable.

The person who can do it is someone who has money and is ready to pay with pay.

The number of people in this group may be large considering the proportion of the Chinese population.

but probably not as enormous as a human wave

In addition, "tour companies", Chinese tours, have not returned to open for service during the COVID-19 period, causing many companies to close their businesses or significantly reduce their size.

It turned out that everything had to be reset.

let's start again

Build a relationship, open a route, negotiate a new price and condition.

There is an interesting observation that

The epidemic situation in China at this time, the Chinese authorities have estimated that there will be 3 waves of outbreaks, that is, during the New Year period on January 1, followed by the Chinese New Year period from January 21 to mid-February when people poured in. return to hometown

Before ending with a ripple where people return to work from the end of February to the middle of March

And in March, it will be the time when the Chinese Communist Party is shedding its leaves.

Change the administration, such as Mr. Li Keqiang, will step down from the post of prime minister.

Passed the baton to Mr. "Li Qiang", the governor of Shanghai, to assume the position of the new Chinese premier.

Amid rumors claiming that Li Qiang is President Xi Jinping's "key man" in formulating COVID-19-related policies.

and economic recovery

So it's more possible that after "March" will be the real "D-Day" schedule that Chinese people will return to travel and spend bustlingly in Thailand!?

Weerapot Inthaphan