Phuket: Ten million foreign tourists to ZERO - pictures tell a sad Bangla Road story

[webfact 74,427]

Phuket: Ten million foreign tourists to ZERO - pictures tell a sad Bangla Road story

 

Picture: The Standard

 

A report from The Standard about tourism in the Bangla Walking Street district of Patong only needed pictures to tell the story of the devastating impact of the pandemic.

 

The media said in their headline that foreign tourism had gone from 10 million visitors a year to zero.

 

The few Thais that were left were barely making a dent in requirements for businesses and people in the area. 

 

They went there early evening at the weekend noting that normally it would have taken the best part of an hour to walk the few hundred meters down to the beach through the throngs. 

 

 

Picture: The Standard

 

Now it was a lonely walk punctuated by a few desperate touts and the odd bargirl trying to drum up non-existent business. 

 

Their pictures included people looking disconsolately at their phones. 

 

Song thaew drivers who used to earn 1000 baht a day trying to scrape by with 100.

 

Picture: The Standard

 

Deserted bars with empty bar stools devoid of customers. 

 

The Phuket Model - a plan to fire up tourism - was still only mooted. 

 

The reality was that a once thriving area is now a ghost town.

 

Source: The Standard

 

 

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Pictures: The Standard

 

 

[bodga 6,645]

3 minutes ago, webfact said:

Their pictures included people looking disconsolately at their phones. 

normality for Thailand

[bodga 6,645]

4 minutes ago, webfact said:

and the odd bargirl trying to drum up non-existent business. 

That simply does  not exist in Thailand as  checked by  BIB in Pattaya

[bodga 6,645]

5 minutes ago, webfact said:

Song thaew drivers who used to earn 1000 baht a day trying to scrape by with 100.

my  poor  bleeding heart cant bear it

[PatOngo 41,394]

I would expect there would be some hard to refuse bargains up for grabs!

[Matzzon 13,659]

17 minutes ago, bodga said:

normality for Thailand

That was the best insult you had today?
 

16 minutes ago, bodga said:

That simply does  not exist in Thailand as  checked by  BIB in Pattaya

They never said that bargirls does not exist.
 

15 minutes ago, bodga said:

my  poor  bleeding heart cant bear it

Wonder how you would feel is somebody mocked you like that if you lost 90% of your monthly income?

Edited September 15 by Matzzon

[Matzzon 13,659]

12 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

I would expect there would be some hard to refuse bargains up for grabs!

It´s a sad story, but I guess it´s better with some bargains than nothing for the people that lost their income.

[PatOngo 41,394]

1 minute ago, Matzzon said:

It´s a sad story, but I guess it´s better with some bargains than nothing for the people that lost their income.

Supply and demand.

[PatOngo 41,394]

Must be nice to walk up and down Bangla Road without being accosted by ladyboys!

[steven100 20,422]

same ...same .... rinse & repeat.. 

[Orton Rd 15,967]

I aint bovvered

[Matzzon 13,659]

9 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Supply and demand.

Goes for everything, so I guess that´s the only thing that is still the old normal. 

[twocatsmac 2,766]

“Song thaew drivers who used to earn 1000 baht a day trying to scrape by with 100.”

 

 

The problem there was that many Song thaew drivers tried to earn nearer 1000 baht per fare. 

 

[ChipButty 14,272]

26 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

I would expect there would be some hard to refuse bargirls up for grabs!

Fixed it for you

[ChipButty 14,272]

Even the short time rooms have closed, so Im told