China says will maintain ban on outbound tours due to virus risk

[ukrules 20,902]

There is a big difference between a 'group tour' and 'independent travelers' who book their own flights and accommodations.

 

The group tours are the ones where you see a crowd of them following a flag waver, they're on a package holiday for 1 to 2 weeks max.

 

The quarantine when returning to China is also 2 weeks, nobody is going on holiday any time soon, perhaps for a few years.

[DrTuner 24,558]

Not applying to CCP cadres coming to Thailand to advice on matters, of course.

[AlfHuy 2,451]

3 hours ago, Surelynot said:

They are not your el cheapo Chinese group tour people.....these are all wealthy Chinese with urgent business reasons to be here.....no tourist in their right mind would actually want a STV.

Sure. Flying in undercover. Low cost airline, cheap clothes but luggage full of money which needs a clean.

[AlfHuy 2,451]

2 hours ago, steven100 said:

so does that mean the 300 supposedly coming at the end of the month is now cancelled ??

and the 39 ...  recent .   how come they were allowed to travel   ??

 

someone is telling fibs .....  either this article is telling lies or the 39 chinese arrivals is a lie    ???   which is it  ??

That's the same ones. They fly them in an out.

[AlfHuy 2,451]

2 hours ago, anchadian said:

Chinese tourists before they arrived

And the one, who finally made it.

Not sure, which country he actually arrived.

[AlfHuy 2,451]

2 hours ago, cjinchiangrai said:

There was a photograph earlier of a family with three children, the youngest looked to be about 8 months.

They posted a wrong photo. Those people went to Beijing

[AlfHuy 2,451]

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

Staged photo op with the nice Amazing Thailand and hands across the water signs.  They do not look like tourists in my book.  If they are well heeled they sure dressed down, and of course they appear to be ordinary workers or staff.

They are just a distraction. The real high billionaire spenders landed with their own airplanes at Don Mueang and are now on the way to Icon Siam to spend at least 10 Million Baht each/per day.

[Jeffr2 8,302]

1 hour ago, Ireland32 said:

Chinese apologist hmmmm

He's right.  China has the virus under control and the Western countries don't.  Sure, China is to blame for this mess.  But they've handled it well.  The West hasn't.  Obviously.

[thaisabai 115]

3 hours ago, KhunKenAP said:

Reports in Pattaya social media, indicted that the latest batch of Chinese tourists are now in Pattaya, out walking around on the beach. Hope wrong.

 

no you are not wrong

several groups of them walking to 7/11 every night now in soi Lengkee

 

thaisabai

[tribalfusion001 5,925]

Hopefully tour groups from China will be banned forever.

[Jeffr2 8,302]

5 minutes ago, thaisabai said:

no you are not wrong

several groups of them walking to 7/11 every night now in soi Lengkee

 

thaisabai

Just checked with my friend who lives near there and hangs out near there every day.  From early to late.  He hasn't seen any Chinese.  I was there yesterday, but left around 5pm.  Not a one.

[AlfHuy 2,451]

Strange that nobody has made any photos of where those tourists are staying for their 2 weeks quarantine.

 

IMO, there is no quarantine and they are already wondering through the high-end shopping malls, buying all stock of Gucci, Armani etc. (not the fake Ch.... stuff, the real one).

[DrTuner 24,558]

24 minutes ago, tribalfusion001 said:

Hopefully tour groups from China will be banned forever.

Would be excellent. Tour groups and cruises are destructive to the communities they attack. Worst kind of form of mass tourism.

[ThailandRyan 16,828]

31 minutes ago, thaisabai said:

no you are not wrong

several groups of them walking to 7/11 every night now in soi Lengkee

 

thaisabai

Photos and proof please.  Stop the group and ask them where they are from instead of just a comment about several groups walking in Pattaya.  I have observed a group or so here, and I stopped and asked them where they are from.  The last group was yesterday on Yaowarat Rd, at the Vegetarian festival.  Spoke good English and came to Bangkok from Chiang Mai for a week holiday and to see the sights before they go back and will launch Sky Lanterns on the next holiday there in Chiang Mai.

[ThailandRyan 16,828]

Just saw this tidbit in another OP.  The CCSA will be looking at the quarantine measures in place. 

 

Taweesin Visanuyothin, spokesperson for CCSA, said the centre met on Wednesday to discuss seven matters, namely:

 

• The successful trip of a government delegation from China

 

Just one of the seven matters, so no they were not Tourists as the Government and Anutin claimed yesterday and proclaimed to the world.  Lies and more lies.