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Thai government promotes 18 measures to reach target of 39 million tourists

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transam Star Member

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So, tourists can now smoke, drink beer 365 days of the year, not be harassed by soldiers in the street, the secret service will not be hiding behind dust bins looking for leg over naughty boys and bikinis will not be deemed "out of order".....Yabadabadoo....????

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SteveK Gold Member

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2 minutes ago, 30la said:

Campaign: "visit Thailand and return home healthy, without being cheated or robbed"! ????

Visit "Amazing Suvarnabhumi", with 750 baht a night accommodation which includes free cold rice and tap water.

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The other campaign called "Shocking Price on Weekdays" is offered to people who take a trip to a Thai destination between Mondays and Thursdays, beginning in November until the end of December.

 

I have a better suggestion. How about a campaign called Shocking lack of xenophobia and racism practiced by the Army and Immigration? How about shocking competence practiced by the tourism ministry?

 

Lower the surly and ignorant luxury taxes that discourage wealthy tourists from visiting. They like to shop and drink fine wine. And they refuse to pay some of the highest prices on the planet for that. 

 

Start treating tourists and ex-pats with respect and dignity, start taking traffic and public safety seriously, start doing everything in your power to devalue the grossly over inflated baht, start improving the educational system, so the youth learn to speak reasonably good English, stop harassing frequent visitors at immigration, stop harassing ex-pats, start hiring competent ministers, start doing what you can to clean up the air, land and water, eliminate dual pricing, and stop making ridiculous proclamations and declarations. Behave like real men. Show us some action, and stop the incessant and meaningless jabbering.

 

And lastly get rid of the ridiculously incompetent army. They are not needed, wanted or liked by anyone other than the elites. They are universally despised, and their incompetence and greed are mind boggling. 

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21 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

The other campaign called "Shocking Price on Weekdays" is offered to people who take a trip to a Thai destination between Mondays and Thursdays, beginning in November until the end of December.

 

I have a better suggestion. How about a campaign called Shocking lack of xenophobia and racism practiced by the Army and Immigration? How about shocking competence practiced by the tourism ministry?

 

Lower the surly and ignorant luxury taxes that discourage wealthy tourists from visiting. They like to shop and drink fine wine. And they refuse to pay some of the highest prices on the planet for that. 

 

Start treating tourists and ex-pats with respect and dignity, start taking traffic and public safety seriously, start doing everything in your power to devalue the grossly over inflated baht, start improving the educational system, so the youth learn to speak reasonably good English, stop harassing frequent visitors at immigration, stop harassing ex-pats, start hiring competent ministers, start doing what you can to clean up the air, land and water, eliminate dual pricing, and stop making ridiculous proclamations and declarations. Behave like real men. Show us some action, and stop the incessant and meaningless jabbering.

 

And lastly get rid of the ridiculously incompetent army. They are not needed, wanted or liked by anyone other than the elites. They are universally despised, and their incompetence and greed are mind boggling. 

There's nothing more to add, innit?

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SteveK Gold Member

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6 minutes ago, tonysilly said:

Keep the tourist safe, stop the scams, scams , and more scams. Stop overcharging tourist. Clean streets, clean your freaking beaches. Wake up Thailand before its too late.  

Stop harassing visitors at the airport should be number one priority, before Thailand gains a reputation for hostility towards tourists.

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TAT still do not define what they class as a tourist.The magical numbers they keep burping up consist of any one who comes over the boarder or through the airport. I was on a 30 day ocean cruise and we stopped for 6 hours at Lam Chabang. Most passengers got off the ship and either went on a bus tour or walked around the port area.The 3-4 thousand passengers no doubt are put into the system as tourist the same as overnight transit passengers.TAT is only fooling themselves and helping the propaganda machine to pat the Thai bureacrats on the back and tell everyone how good they are and what a wonderful job they are doing.

No concern about real revenue just polish the mirrors.

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2 hours ago, corkman said:

Oh, and there is another one. "No more archaic alcohol free days" to reduce domestic tourists going overseas on long weekends during the low season, and foreign tourists from staying away!

I feel the same about the numerous alcohol free days. Who benefits? No one. I don't see the connection between Buddhism and alcohol. 

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Instead of band aid's they need to revamp the whole country much like a lot of the world you have to fun for the whole family especially kids

 

Imagine how a hotel in Bangkok would do if it had a water park

The young people have some money but the family rules.

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spidermike007 Star Member

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43 minutes ago, Elfin said:

Shocking means terrible or awful.

They mean shock prices to give everyone a big surprise!????:w00t:

Just more incompetent diatribe and dribble from a ministry without talent or vision. The reality is they have no idea how to  arrest the shocking decline in tourism. They will never take responsibility for the dozen major mistakes that were made and the clown acts of guys like the biggest joke and the PM. 

 

We get what we deserve in life. Although my heart goes out to the millions of Thai people affected by the decline of the tourism industry (not the fictitious arrival numbers, but rather the quality of the tourists), by allowing the army to rule and not acting passionately to rid themselves of such uselessness, they have brought this upon themselves. 

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