Move over Clark Kent, there’s a new Superhero in town in need of your dressing room. The Digital Economy and Society Ministry is converting TOT phone booths into Covid-19 testing kiosks to help lower the infection risk faced by healthcare workers due to the shortage of personal protective equipment.
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Elephants are the biggest victims of the Covid-19 pandemic, literally. There is a danger that many elephants may starve to death with no tourists visiting camps and sanctuaries across South East Asia. The warning from the World Elephant Foundation.
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Now one Vietnamese restaurant in Bangkok has found a more fun way to make sure people are sitting apart but still marking the seat spacing. Big, stuffed panda bear toys are placed in the vacant seats instead.
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The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has initiated its first-ever official online tourism marketplace “Thailand Tourism Virtual Market” (TTVM) as a new tool to expand tourism markets and connect Thai sellers and buyers around the world to get closer via an online travel trade networking platform – https://virtualmart.tourismthailand.org/. The project will be launched for its first B2B networking today (15 May, 2020).
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During the current Covid-19 pandemic, Nicolas Vivin the entrepreneurial founder of VIVIN Grocery / VIVIN Food along with his business partner wife, were faced with losing the greater part of their business due to hotels and restaurants closures on top of facing the challenge of the Government imposed curfew only months after opening their stand-alone boutique grocery store. Although the regulations are slowly being relaxed, customers are naturally cautious and afraid to leave the house or go to high risk, populated enclosed areas such as major supermarkets. The aftermath of Covid-19 is expected to last for the rest of the year, both in health risk and financial hardship.
The enterprising couple came up with a solution that could help customers to discover their products with minimal effort and risk and the brand could get some cash flow for their small business, impacted by Covid-19. What they did first was look to their immediate resources. The idea then came about to supply the bakery, organic vegetables, cheese and charcuterie to the people by way of a transport vehicle. It took two weeks to remodel their old transportation delivery truck which was originally purchased to send supplies to hotels, into a refrigerated mobile Grocery on wheels.
VIVIN Grocery Food Truck plans to move from one key location to the next every weekend, in order to reach different communities who can benefit from healthy, organic, natural grocery. The truck will be parked at locations which are open-air and shaded, some with even a place to sit so customers may enjoy their purchase, like freshly baked croissants with a coffee or cool beverage. They are also reaching out to their peers and public to help them find more suitable, private locations.
VIVIN Grocery will reveal weekly on their social media pages, where they will pop-up their operations. VIVIN Grocery Food Truck will be trading every Saturday mornings, and occasionally both Saturday and Sunday. The VIVIN Grocery Food Truck team will open up the back of their truck which will supply shelves and crates filled with quality essentials and delicacies; free-range eggs, certified organic vegetables, jams and chutneys, bread and pastries (baked that morning) along with plenty of local Thai, artisanal cheese and cold cuts. Look out for the announcement on their @vivinmaison facebook / @vivinmaison instagram / LINE: @VIVINGrocery pages for updates!
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has launched a new TVC “Best Wishes (Pla-Ta-Pian)” sending tender, loving and care (TLC) to cheer up the world that we shall all overcome all difficulties and hardships from the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic together.
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The Thai government will launch a new mobile phone app to facilitate disease-control tracking of customers as shops reopen with the easing of the coronavirus lockdown.
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A group of volunteers recently launched a ‘Pantry of Sharing’ initiative, where they share non-perishable food items and basic hygiene supplies, including feminine hygiene products, toothpaste, and toilet paper, to others who are in need during the outbreak. The concept is based on a simple idea that those who can afford to give do so while those in need are encouraged to stop by and take what they need.
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The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has put in motion two phone applications to further assist in the fight against the spread of Covid-19. The applications enable callers to phone 1250 free of charge in addition to calling 115 to acquire reliable information on whether they might have the virus.
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Vietnamese sustainable travel company Triip has launched a new global Stay Home Heroes initiative that allows homebound travellers to earn points by staying at home which can then be used for future travels.
With a third of the global population on lockdown, the rewards programme supports broader government-led initiatives calling on citizens to stay at home and practise social distancing to protect public health.
From April 1, Triiip will reward users who use the startup’s Stay Home Heroes app feature to check in at their homes with a photo uploaded.
Payment will be made daily to homebound users with unique travel points, called TIIM. Users who check in at home will be offered 1 TIIM per day, which can then be used to redeem for later travels.
While sheltered, users can also earn TIIM by sharing Triip with their friends via a unique, personalised link; submitting photos of their past travels to the platform; and sharing their future travel plans within the app.
Triip said that it is making available 15 million points through the end of the lockdown orders to each of its users to incentivise them to stay home.