Cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go will need to ob­tain an elec­tron­ic trav­el au­tho­ri­sa­tion (ETA) per­mit be­fore en­ter­ing Thai­land.

The au­thor­i­ties in the sec­ond-largest econ­o­my in South­east Asia said that the new mea­sure will be­gin rolling out on De­cem­ber 1 and will be ful­ly im­ple­ment­ed by June 2025.

T&T na­tion­als do not re­quire a visa to go to Thai­land.

Ear­li­er this month, it was re­vealed that T&T pass­port hold­ers will soon need an elec­tron­ic trav­el au­tho­ri­sa­tion (ETA) to vis­it the Unit­ed King­dom. That mea­sure be­gins on Jan­u­ary 8, 2025, and sees cit­i­zens from 48 oth­er coun­tries and ter­ri­to­ries al­so hav­ing to do the same.

Of­fi­cials in Thai­land said the im­ple­men­ta­tion of the ETA had be­come nec­es­sary due to in­creas­es in tourism and to curb il­le­gal im­mi­gra­tion. Among the Caribbean coun­tries af­fect­ed by the mea­sure are Ja­maica and Do­mini­ca. The oth­er coun­tries af­fect­ed in­clude the Unit­ed States, Cana­da, Brazil, Uruguay, Colom­bia, Pe­ru, Pana­ma, Cu­ba,  the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic and Guatemala.

The pro­posed ETA will be free of charge for a stay of up to 60 days for tourism pur­pos­es and Thai­land’s Min­istry of For­eign Af­fairs said the sys­tem will en­hance the ef­fec­tive­ness and ef­fi­cien­cy of screen­ing and track­ing for­eign­ers en­ter­ing Thai­land. - In­for­ma­tion tak­en from CMC