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"Pattaya Model": Mayor targets Chinese and Russian visitors - quarantine hotels named


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Where does Mr Sonthaya get the idea that either Russia or China have Covid under control!   O'm sure pne or several of his minions can do some very simple research to find the truth!   But again, talk is so cheap & he's got himeself SOME publicity !  They don't care here if it's bad or good!????????

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Yes, there is some surge of covid19 infections & deaths in Moscow and Saint Petersburg now - but you could demand all the outgoing tourists have to present a negative test results within 72 hours of the flight from Russia abroad - like it is done with Maldives and UAE for Russian tourists now (UAE also demand second test to be done on arrival to Dubai).

By the way all tourists returning to Russia have to make another test for covid19 within 3 days upon return to Russia. 

Turkey received over a million of Russian tourists since 1 August 2020 taking temperature on arrival and testing those with any symptoms of covid19.

Thousands of Russian tourists travelled to Maldives (now top source of tourists for Maldives), UAE and no problem.

It will be difficult for Thai people related to the jobs in tourism to survive with closed borders for such a long time.

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19 hours ago, AbeNormal said:

This government are going to put us all at risk if they continue down this path of self destruction, they need to start using their foreign reserves and support their people, yes it will dilute and devalue the baht which isn't a bad thing for the country which relies on exports and tourism  

Yes I feel that way, if they open up to foreign tourists the Covid will infect the country. They could never handle the numbers that would have an impact.

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On 10/30/2020 at 10:44 AM, spidermike007 said:

What can one say? Desperation is setting in. Heads are going to roll. Just returned from Samui. Utter devastation. 90% of the businesses on the beach road were closed, and hundreds of hotels are closed and for sale, at half price. Trillions of baht are going to be lost here. Annually. Tourism will NEVER recover. Not in our lifetimes. Too much timidity. Too much cowardice. Too little juice and creativity. Such small minds.
 
If they cannot figure out a way to implement this simple program, then totally free quarantine for incoming tourists. All expenses, including meals, picked up by the army, using their multi trillion baht slush fund. Give up the stupid submarine program. That is over 30 billion baht right there. You do not need them. 
 
Simple answer. Nonsensical stupidity. Lack of science. Fear mongering. Let us make your stay as uncomfortable as possible. And by the way, you cannot consume alcohol either, during your quarantine. Who comes up with this stuff, and why does the nation tolerate the nonsense, the utter incompetence, the malfeasance? How much longer will they tolerate the extremely regressive army?

Many countries here in Asia have blocked tourists completely. Thailand allows them at least with quarantine. Not true? Look below for Vietnam for instance. So if the people don't like the Thai regulations they should go there ????

 

"As of today, the Vietnamese government continues to suspend entry into Vietnam to all foreigners, including people with a Vietnamese visa exemption certificate."

 

 https://vn.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/covid-19-information/

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23 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

 

Not sure about the Russians, but the Chinese are going to exploit this situation, to no end. There is already talk about the Kra Canal project. We know what that means. It will likely be funded by China, and the moment it is completed, China will take over complete control of the canal, in a nanosecond. The Japanese are starting to move some of their manufacturing elsewhere, and they appear to be getting "Prayuth goombah fatigue". Investments in Thailand are way down. 

I thought the idea was scrapped already.

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18 hours ago, champers said:

A report in today's press says that the cabinet has decided that for now the only ASQ hotels will be in Bangkok. The cabinet cannot be countermanded by the Mayor of Pattaya, as far as I am aware.

Best Bella Pattaya has been on the approved list for months and has been getting used AFAIK.  The other two have just been added in the last couple of days, along with many more on Phuket and elsewhere.

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5 minutes ago, Oldie said:

Doing big business. That is different from opening a small bar and hope for miracles. 

Sure, but in regards to this part of your post, "we western Farangs had many years time to do business here. And mostly it ended in creating beer bars" what "big business" can be done in a small beer bar?  

 

What do you think the Chinese, Russians, and Thai mafia can do with all these small buildings all over Pattaya?  There's too many of them to be retail, and many are too small to be a restaurant. 

 

The nature of the buildings themselves means they can only really sell alcohol and / or sex.   

 

In humour, many say to bulldoze whole soi's and start again.  I don't see this as possible, unless a whole soi is owned by an individual or company, so, I can't see how the land, or the current buildings, can be repurposed to anything else than selling alcohol and / or sex.  

 

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