Foreign Office lifts Thailand travel ban

Wednesday, 07 May, 2010 0

The Foreign Office has downgraded its travel advice for Thailand and now no longer advises against all but essential travel to the whole of the county.

Travel to the country was discouraged after anti-government Red Shirt protestors and security forces clashed in late April leaving 25 dead and many injured. Days later, clashes between troops and protestors close to Bangkok’s second airport Don Muang left a soldier dead and ten injured.

The FCO still advises against travellers spending time in Bangkok but says it is acceptable to travel into the capital’s airport and then onwards to a safer destination within the country.

Officials also still warn against travelling in the northern provinces and Pattaya because of political unpredictability. It advises against travel to Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Ayuthaya, the Preah Vihear temple area and the far southern provinces of Pattania, Yala, Narathiwat and Songkhla because of insurgency in these areas.
 
Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport is operating as normal and the route to the airport from the city remains open.


 

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