By jack.russelle on Skatehive
This country just doesn't know when to shut up and let their own industries thrive. Or, they are trying to make some money for some friends of theirs in the insurance industry of Thailand which, given what I know about corruption in this country, is more likely the case. It hasn't passed yet and I hope that someone still has a brain in the higher levels of government, but the proposal is that every single person that is traveling to Thailand would be REQUIRED to have accident insurance in order to be allowed in the country. It's almost like the want tourism numbers to continue declining. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/FlagmapofThailand.svg/330px-FlagmapofThailand.svg.png src We don't know a great deal about this yet, but there are multiple methods that Thailand is considering as far as enforcement of this is concerned and both of them are wildly beyond the scope of the technology that the actual immigration officers have available to them. 1> They are talking