Popular Post webfact Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 Pattaya: Tourism recovery may take TWO YEARS, says industry expert Picture: one31 A leading tourism industry expert said that Pattaya's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic may take two years. And tourist businesses that survive should learn their lesson from the greatest problem facing the resort in more than 50 years. Many won't survive, said Thanet Supharothatrangsi an executive of Sunshine Group of hotels who was speaking on behalf of Chonburi tourism businesses in an interview with One 31.net. Thanet said there was no doubt that the pandemic has had a devastating impact on the tourism industry throughout Thailand and Pattaya in particular. Picture: one31 And there was no end in sight despite the government looking like they will ease some restrictions shortly. Some businesses have already gone under and others will surely follow. Tourists were not going to come back any time soon as trave was not a priority on people's minds at present and money was tight. Perhaps in a few months people may begin to travel again but the reality is that Pattaya will be feeling the effects of this crisis for two years to come, he said. Since Pattaya became a tourism destination more than 50 years ago this is the worst thing that ever happened. Operators should learn the lessons and prepare - for it could happen again. Thanet generally approved of the lock down measures in place in Pattaya but noted that the authorities need to remain vigilant and not lower their guard from complacency. The media went with a caption on a picture of Pattaya beach that said: Things might not be the same as before. That appeared to be an understatement when it comes to the dire economic effect of the pandemic on Thailand's tourism sector, notes Thaivisa. Source: one31 -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2020-04-30 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 3 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NCC1701A Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 this seems more realistic. and only the strong will survive and it may be much longer than this before we see the level of small business return to pre-virus days. i only hope my favorite restaurants in Pattaya survive. 15 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Just1Voice Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 Pattaya has lost way too much. It will never fully recover. 24 1 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jomtien99 Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 Instead of stating the obvious about the amount of time Pattaya's tourism industry may take to recover, why don't they look at the opportunity in front of them: time to clean up Pattaya and make it a resort for the New World that is coming, less jet ski scams, less double pricing, sort out the waste water drains going out to sea, the songtheaw mafia, etc - time to make it more welcoming 43 1 2 5 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Phuketshrew Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 10 minutes ago, jomtien99 said: Instead of stating the obvious about the amount of time Pattaya's tourism industry may take to recover, why don't they look at the opportunity in front of them: time to clean up Pattaya and make it a resort for the New World that is coming, less jet ski scams, less double pricing, sort out the waste water drains going out to sea, the songtheaw mafia, etc - time to make it more welcoming I could not agree more. I made this suggestion about a month ago - they could also provide jobs to the unemployed to regenerate the area. Sadly that takes planning and foresight .... 15 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ezzra Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 Maybe this time Pattaya will use this restart opportunity to emerge a better and more like a proper resort town than a cowboy's dive and slime joint, will Pattaya fathers will learn and implement new ways or things are just going to go back to the cesspool state it used to be... 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post essox essox Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 4 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said: I could not agree more. I made this suggestion about a month ago - they could also provide jobs to the unemployed to regenerate the area. Sadly that takes planning and foresight .... planning and foresight...am afraid is very much lacking not just pattaya but most of thailand..... 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jomtien99 Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 5 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said: I could not agree more. I made this suggestion about a month ago - they could also provide jobs to the unemployed to regenerate the area. Sadly that takes planning and foresight .... and that goes for Phuket and Samui and other beach resorts/islands 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NCC1701A Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 the enormous criminal enterprise that is Pattaya unfortunately means that five years from now they will still be tearing up Beach Road in the "hopes" of finally getting it right. 16 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SteveK Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 30 minutes ago, jomtien99 said: time to clean up Pattaya and make it a resort for the New World that is coming, less jet ski scams, less double pricing, sort out the waste water drains going out to sea, the songtheaw mafia, etc - time to make it more welcoming People have been suggesting this for years but it seems nobody in Thailand has any interest in doing so. The sad fact is that scams and price gouging are a means of income for some. And in Thailand, where there's a revenue stream there are always brown envelopes. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OnTheGround Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 Finally, the truth. Could (educate) replace TAT and the future would be brighter. 2 year is a more realistic estimate. Pattaya city has a unique opportunity to plan and build for the future. Beach road, put a end to all traffic, make it walking street from north end to current walking street. Beautify the ugly concrete beach road, replace with small outdoor asian theme restaurants, acoustic music coffee shops, plant grass, flowers, large trees for sunshade (remember those you removed 10 years ago). Public toilets every 300 meter. A unique chance to beautify the current very ugly concrete next to the beach. TAT, have a job for me? WP required ???? 11 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NCC1701A Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 5 minutes ago, OnTheGround said: Finally, the truth. Could (educate) replace TAT and the future would be brighter. 2 year is a more realistic estimate. Pattaya city has a unique opportunity to plan and build for the future. Beach road, put a end to all traffic, make it walking street from north end to current walking street. Beautify the ugly concrete beach road, replace with small outdoor asian theme restaurants, acoustic music coffee shops, plant grass, flowers, large trees for sunshade (remember those you removed 10 years ago). Public toilets every 300 meter. A unique chance to beautify the current very ugly concrete next to the beach. TAT, have a job for me? WP required ???? assuming it grows back, you better not touch soi 6. 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammieuk1 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Mammaries memories the golden goose is in the oven ???? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post batata Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 I like their optimism 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chivas Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 Only 2 years ?? Somewhat optimistic I'd say... 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post grumbleweed Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 1 hour ago, webfact said: Pattaya: Tourism recovery may take TWO YEARS, says industry expert "tourism" and "expert" in one sentence? Now that is pushing the envelope. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ratcatcher Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 Here's a novel idea, , get the .U.S fleet to arrive in Pattaya every few weeks for R & R. Meanwhile the welcoming committee is on the beach. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SteveK Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 (edited) 30 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said: Mammaries memories the golden goose is in the oven ???? 15 years ago, Thailand's tourism industry seemed unstoppable. It's sad to see that in such a relatively short space of time it has been ruined by sheer ineptitude. Having spoken to several friends and family members over the past few months, none of them said that they had any intentions of ever going back to Thailand. The country once boasted one of the highest tourist return visit rates in the world. Fake figures, a head in the sand attitude, rampant corruption, inability to tackle any of the issues scaring away visitors and the belief that tourists would always 'just come' seems to have sealed their fate. Even the hardcore of repeat sex tourists have figured out that there are much more welcoming and better value destinations where they can get their fill with much less aggravation. An old colleague of mine from the UK visited Phuket a couple of years ago and absolutely hated it. Third world conditions at first world prices was how she described it. In the good old days when the exchange rate was favourable, I paid no attention to the lack of customer service, overflowing bins, the rodents, mosquitoes and blatant scams because I could spend a month pottering around the country on £1000. Now that money's gone in a week! Admittedly that's still less than what I would spend on a trip to Las Vegas, but not by much. Pattaya will recover for sure, but it will never be as thriving as it once was. Whatever schemes they come up with will end up costing a fortune because of corruption and bribes and those costs will be passed on to the tourists. The city was well known for one thing and did that very well. Off the back of it, thousands of businesses thrived in the city and provided a living for countless citizens up and down the country. The mae yais and paw yais across Thailand got their remittances from Pattaya, and the buffalos got their injections. Now the government has completely ballsed that up, it's the Thais who will be suffering the most. Why did they have to clamp down on the one thing which made Pattaya successful? It's so stupid. It's like McDonalds stopping serving french fries, KFC stopping serving chicken, or Cairo knocking down the pyramids. Completely brain dead. They need to stop touting Pattaya as a family destination and start promoting Walking Street and Soi 6 for what they really are. Edited April 30, 2020 by SteveK 15 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jmccarty Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 My family visiting from America end of June have cancelled their flights and hotel reservations in Pattaya first then on Koh Chang. That the govt banning alcohol sale for months at a time, if travel is even allowed, their beach holiday makes no sense. Not that travel will be permitted or people from America will be on the list allowed in anytime soon. They will go to Cancun instead. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post WineOh Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 It's over lads. The cow has been milked dry. Those dirty foreigners are never coming back and I don't blame em! Better spend their money somewhere their hosts respect them. 3 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Denis Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 14 minutes ago, SteveK said: ... They need to stop touting Pattaya as a family destination and start promoting Walking Street and Soi 6 for what they really are. Maybe it's just a clever scheme to give Horny Dad's an excuse to visit Sin City with their family, hoping to be able to sneak out in the evening hours in search for a happy ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SteveK Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Liverpoolfan said: It's over lads. The cow has been milked dry. Those dirty foreigners are never coming back and I don't blame em! Better spend their money somewhere their hosts respect them. It's the Chinese who they want to come back. Maybe because they won't need to spend as much on public lavatories? Or maybe because the Chinese will happily eat all the utter garbage that even the Thais refuse to eat. Edited April 30, 2020 by SteveK 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thunder26 Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 If they keep banning everything like idiots, it will take longer. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny1990 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 It was already going in a wrong direction before corona. Whats the recovery plan this time? Show it to us in detail? ???? Vouchers ? Again 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Boomer6969 Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 Use these two years to turn it what it should have been for the past 50 years: a decent family resort for the hard working Bangkok people to spend their weekends. 2 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mavideol Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 2 hours ago, webfact said: A leading tourism industry expert said that Pattaya's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic may take two years. are they referring to TAT and their estimates 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petermik Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Perhaps the tourism expert should inform all those having Hotels/Condo,s built at this very time to forget about it....see how they react to his predictions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sweatalot Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 Now they blame it all on the virus. Tourism to Thailand has been going down for a long time (except for chinese may be- but would it be clever to rely on this one nation only?). In particular the Westerners have found greener pastures already. The reason is caused by the Thais themselves. If they don't learn the golden times will not come back 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post petermik Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 And as regards the folk on here suggesting now is the opportunity for the authorities here to implement radical and necessary changes to improve Pattaya..are you in cloud cuckoo land...those in power here are only concerned with making as much money for themselves in the shortest possible time....they do not care about anything else....money number one here,always has been always will.... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UbonThani Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 when was it ever good? dirty city not sure why they call it a resort 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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