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A way for Thailand to heal the tourist industry


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19 hours ago, Sametboy2019 said:

This could of easily been implemented during this lockdown in Thailand in places like Pattaya

You'll be relieved to know that Pattaya City has recently started a major six-month project to beautify South Pattaya Road by laying all the cables underground. I'm sure that architects and town planners from across the globe will soon be winging their way here to admire the end-result. That's if they can get appropriate travel insurance and a "fit-to-fly" certificate, of course, lol.

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As most people know Boracay  shut for 6 months and renovated the whole island.

 

ah... but did they conform to social distancing rules while carrying out the work? lockdown sounds like such a good opportunity to carry out construction/refurbishment/repair work, unfortunately it is very difficult to do this safely and effectively while social distancing.

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currently thailand doesn't want to heal tourism. you have to remember why countries went into lockdown; to protect their healthcare systems, so they wouldn't get overloaded with cases and those infected could be treated and have the best chance of survival. once this fear has been alleviated then countries start to open up and tourism has started, e.g. within europe.

 

clearly the thai government does not feel the healthcare system is robust enough to cope and is therefore extremely worried about any extra cases of infection. until they have confidence in the healthcare system the government will not allow large numbers of people into the country, irrespective of the potential damage  to the tourist industry and economy.

 

 

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OP, same thing has been going on at "the beach" island down in Krabi. Closed for over a year already and only planning to re-open sometime next year.


It helps to know your facts before making a post like this.

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23 hours ago, Sametboy2019 said:

As most people know Boracay...

I seem not to be "most people", as I had to Google "Boracay" to realize that a once famous Philippine party island became boring...:whistling:

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22 hours ago, Sametboy2019 said:

Can you explain what you are talking about? 

Some very popular beaches have been closed in Thailand starting last year, but during the emergency decree when most beaches have been closed automatically, they have recovered. 

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4 hours ago, loong said:

I think that most people did not know.
I had to google Boracay as I had never heard of it. You might at least have mentioned that it is in the Phillipines.

 

What are "flinging tourists"????

 

Strange topic!

it's going to be a new sport in Thailand, in the vein of 'tossing midgets' - those found on overstay or covid will be put on a giant slingshot and flung into the Andaman..

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6 hours ago, loong said:

What are "flinging tourists"????

Strange topic!

Strange indeed ???? "flinging tourists" are tourist that Thai people think are coming in swarms to our village and told so but nothing happens. ????

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While it might have been an idea to employ some people and upgrade the facilities in some tourist areas that isn't what will restore their tourist industry.  First of all it is too early to do so.  Making an effort too soon will result in chaos and long term more damage to their industry.  Wait til the world knows we are at the tail end of the virus then act.

 

What will aid in restoring their tourism sector is a couple of things.

 

1)  Make getting Visas really easy and free.  Make it so anyone can stay 60 days on arrival.  

 

2)  Fund their national airline or find some way to make flying to Thailand cheap.

 

3)  Devalue the baht making it once again an inexpensive vacation spot.  

 

 

 

Really that is all it would take.  The natural tendency of the Thais to apply capitalist offers to tourists will take care of the rest.

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4 hours ago, samsensam said:

until they have confidence in the healthcare system the government will not allow large numbers

 

If this would be the case, the country would have an eternal lockdown.

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10 minutes ago, jimmybcool said:

While it might have been an idea to employ some people and upgrade the facilities in some tourist areas that isn't what will restore their tourist industry.  First of all it is too early to do so.  Making an effort too soon will result in chaos and long term more damage to their industry.  Wait til the world knows we are at the tail end of the virus then act.

 

What will aid in restoring their tourism sector is a couple of things.

 

1)  Make getting Visas really easy and free.  Make it so anyone can stay 60 days on arrival.  

 

2)  Fund their national airline or find some way to make flying to Thailand cheap.

 

3)  Devalue the baht making it once again an inexpensive vacation spot.  

 

 

 

Really that is all it would take.  The natural tendency of the Thais to apply capitalist offers to tourists will take care of the rest.

Do you want someone to apply the bum gun when you're finished as well?

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From that what I understood, Boracay became a sterile and overregulated and therefore boring island. All the flair and fun has gone. Duterte is one of the world's prime funbusters.

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43 minutes ago, Traubert said:

Do you want someone to apply the bum gun when you're finished as well?

The beauty of Thaivisa.  Post an idea or thought and get back snarky comments.  No one should wonder why intelligent posters disappear.

 

 

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6 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

it's going to be a new sport in Thailand, in the vein of 'tossing midgets' - those found on overstay or covid will be put on a giant slingshot and flung into the Andaman..

... attached to a jet ski and there better not be any damage to the jet ski otherwise that's an immediate 100k baht repair bill.  

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