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Bangkok, <keyword id="11905404" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="thailand" source="Orion">Thailand</keyword> is mulling on new tourism incentives to revive its Covid-19 pandemic-battered economy, betting on higher vaccination rates that allow quarantine-free travels. After more than one year of border control and an initiative to bring back foreign visitors to the resort island Phuket from July, Thailand is set to reopen more of its popular tourist destinations to fully-vaccinated foreign visitors starting next month, reports Xinhua news agency. Regions including the capital city Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Chon Buri, Phetchaburi and Prachuap Khiri Khan are set to reopen to vaccinated foreign visitors from October 1, while another 21 destinations may reopen from mid-October, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) announced on Friday. The reopening plans came following the Phuket Sandbox pilot, which allowed fully vaccinated foreign visitors to enter the island without quarantine. The Phuket program had attracted more than 26,000 tourists during the past two months to the island, generating 1.63 billion baht ($50 million) in revenue, according to TAT. Local tourism may also get a big push as the government considered measures to encourage domestic travelling starting from mid-October if the number of new Covid-19 cases remains at a manageable level. According to Minister of Tourism and Sports Phiphat Ratchakitprakan, two local tourism campaigns in the pipeline are the "We Travel Together" Phase 3 and "Travel around Thailand", which would be subject for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA)'s approval at the end of this month. "We are closely monitoring the development trend on the number of new daily infections following the lockdown easing that took effect on September 1. If the new case tally remains at a manageable level, we will continue to pursue our plans," Phiphat told the local media on Friday. The Minister said the two campaigns, which had been postponed because of the third wave of the outbreak since early April, will be important for the survival of Thai tourism industry. Under the "We Travel Together" scheme, travellers will be given a 40 per cent discount on accommodation, a 600-baht voucher for food and beverage for every night booked and another 40 percent discount on plane tickets, according to Phiphat. It is expected to cover 2 million applicants. The "Travel around Thailand" project will subsidise 40 per cent of tour packages of up to 5,000 baht for 1 million Thai tourists. TAT governor Yuthasak Supasorn expected the campaigns to help unleash pent-up demand. "Most Thais will prefer to travel within the country for the end of this year as going aboard can still be considered quite a challenge, due to the ongoing global pandemic," Yuthasak said. TAT estimated that there would be 90 million domestic trips this year, in line with the number recorded in 2020. The tourism incentives are part of the Southeast Asian country's efforts to strike a balance between pandemic containment and economic growth as long as the Covid-19 infections remain at a level that does not overwhelm the public health system. The revival of tourism sector has been high on the Thai government's agenda as the sector accounted for about one fifth of the country's gross domestic product in years before the pandemic. The government has also been accelerating vaccine roll-out, vowing to inoculating about 70 percent of the whole population by the end of the year. Till date, more than 16 per cent of the population have been fully vaccinated, according to the CCSA.

Thailand rolls out new tourism incentives to revive Covid-hit economy

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/police-take-a-security-measures-during-the-protest-against-news-photo/632971272?adppopup=true">Mohammed Elshamy/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images</a>Police take a security measures during the protest against President Donald Trump's 90-days ban of entry on 7 Muslim-majority countries in the Fourth terminal of JFK airport in New York, United States on January 28, 2017.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>A New York man is facing terrorism charges after authorities say he was planning to kill American military forces and flee the country to join the Taliban.</li><li>Delowar Mohammed Hossain, 33, was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport and is charged with attempting to provide material support for acts of terrorism, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.</li><li>Authorities said Hossain described his plans in recorded conversations with a source, including detailing how he planned to evade raising red flags by first traveling to Bankok before Pakistan, and later Afghanistan.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>A New York man is facing terrorism charges after he was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport after planning to kill American military forces and leave the country to join the Taliban, according to federal authorities.Delowar Mohammed Hossain, 33, of the Bronx, is charged with attempting to provide material support for acts of terrorism, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bronx-man-arrested-attempting-provide-material-support-terrorism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in a statement.</a>Authorities said that Hossain was due to depart New York on July 26 to Thailand as the first leg of the route to Afghanistan, but FBI agents arrested him before he could board the flight."Hossain had a despicable goal," FBI Assistant Director of Counterterrorism Michael McGarrity. "He wanted to make his way to Afghanistan, join up with Taliban forces, and kill Americans. But he failed because members of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force interrupted his plans."Authorities allege in the statement that Hossain had described his plans in recorded conversations with a source, including detailing how he planned to evade raising red flags by first traveling to Bankok before Pakistan, and later Afghanistan.Hossain also said he was buying equipment such as walkie-talkies and trekking gear and told the informant to save money "to buy weapons" after reaching Afghanistan, according to the complaint.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jonathan-xie-federal-charges-supporting-terrorist-organization-2019-5" data-analytics-position="1">A New Jersey man charged with sending money to Hamas militants polled his Instagram audience asking 'should I bomb Trump Tower,' court documents say</a>"The lure of radical ideologies comes from many sources, and just because the Taliban may seem like an old and out of vogue extremist group, it shouldn't be underestimated," FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney Jr. said in the statement. "The FBI New York Joint Terrorism Task Force stopped Mr. Hossain from traveling overseas to allegedly support a deadly organization, and kept him from his alleged plan to kill innocent people."The charge of attempting to provide material support for terrorism carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/area-51-american-conspiracy-theories-aliens-history-animation-video-2017-7">How Area 51 became the center of alien conspiracy theories</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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