The “Thailand Pass” portal shows many API errors Thailand officially opened to vaccinated tourists and tourists from 63 countries on November 1 to revive the country’s collapsed tourism industry, but the process did not go as smoothly as planned by the national tourism authority. Now, everyone who wants to travel to Thailand must register and be approved on a new website called Thailand Pass to show proof of vaccination and Covid-19 insurance — as well as quarantine hotel reservations and air tickets — airport….
Thailand officially opened to vaccinated tourists and tourists from 63 countries on November 1 to revive the country’s collapsed tourism industry, but the process did not go as smoothly as planned by the national tourism authority.
Now everyone who wants to travel to Thailand must register and seek approval on a new website called Thailand Pass Present proof of vaccination and Covid-19 insurance, as well as quarantine hotel reservations and air tickets to issue a QR code when checking in at the airport.
But to be precise, that website-which should have eased the cumbersome process of obtaining the so-called entry certificate from the Thai embassy in the past-did not work very well at first, because it did not seem to be synchronized with all web browsers, and then complained. Eliminate system errors related to application programming interfaces or APIs for many people who try to use it.
Notorious for poorly designed management applications
For expats in Thailand, this is not surprising, because Thailand’s official web application is notorious for its sloppy design and frequent system errors and data security issues. Two recent frustrating examples are the 90-day address report. App expatriates and Mor Prom, the Covid-19 vaccination service portal created by the Ministry of Public Health, have been closed for several months or simply behaved in an unstable manner.
Some foreign news portals and online threads in Thailand have published suggestions on how “Thailand Pass” users can solve their problems by using only certain browsers and installing specific browser extensions, thereby helping themselves to use online services that seem rather unprofessional Some users reported that it took them several hours to resolve the fault in the system and finally complete the verification process.
When the system was put into use on November 1, Thailand’s tourism officials defended the issue, but programming experts said that this is not an excuse for a major design flaw in the portal. It’s not even too complicated, and it doesn’t seem like What they pointed out was fully tested.
