Hotel operators beg govt to consider reopening Thailand soon

[meechai 3,031]

12 hours ago, ukrules said:

It's not going to open up, the zero COVID approach will continue for a very long time.

 

I can't see anything changing before the end of 2021 and that's being optimistic.

 

Well you could be right about C19 regulations continuing but as far as not seeing anything change?

I tell you what ...change is quickly approaching & it is not going to be pretty.

Desperation/poverty does not happen silently or without major changes occurring in day to day life

Edited November 18, 2020 by meechai

[Dukeleto 1,578]

Instead of begging why don’t they all get together and completely shutter All their hotels and lay off all staff. Can you imagine no hotels open in Bangkok??? That will get their attention and put the reality of what they are doing home to roost.

[Salerno 3,915]

12 hours ago, ukrules said:

I can't see anything changing before the end of 2021 and that's being optimistic.

 

Given the changes that have already occurred I believe that should be pessimistic rather than optimistic.

[metisdead 8,863]

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[rupert the bear 967]

10 hours ago, greenhornfarang said:

 

Yes but more people will die of poverty/starvation/depression/suicide from these measures than from covid. 

yes quite right and of course cars and thai roads,obviously if we carry the govt logic thru why is anyone driving!!??

[Dialemco 327]

Hotels should realise it is not possible to open Thailand until Covid is under control and that they are only a small  part of losses being incurred in Tourism and related busnesses Hotels  are most able to sustain losses and should plan accordingly.

[charmonman 1,905]

5 hours ago, greenhornfarang said:

If there were debilitating effects then people would not be forgetting, those I know who tested positive either experienced no symptoms or just had a regular flu, one in his 40s one in his 30s neither athletic. 

Just have a look at reports of hospital systems being overwhelmed in many parts of the US and you might change your mind. Those you know ... how about those other people know? Unless you personally know someone who has died or suffered long term then it doesn't exist?

[Techno Viking 1,293]

would only be a handful of countries that currently let their citizens fly in and out freely with no restrictions anyways so even opening the borders there is not going to be some huge magical influx of tourists.

[Salerno 3,915]

Every little helps.

[Techno Viking 1,293]

Just now, Salerno said:

Every little helps.

well of course but that "little" needs to at minimum cover the hotels overheads.

[mstevens 2,358]

11 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

The Thai tourist industry was in decline long before the covid issue began. In addition to the expensive Baht, Thailand is simply not interesting anymore. When was the last time anyone bragged about having been to Thailand, like 2005? 

 

In decline when the number of visitors to the country has been jumping every year? Tell that to the millions of Thai people employed in tourism and who made a good living from it.

 

Don't make the mistake of thinking that because you and maybe your farang friends had lost interest in Thailand. Pre-Covid, Thailand might not have been the in / trendy place to visit like it was 20 years for Westerners, but try telling that to the more the 10 million odd Chinese who visit each year. And still plenty of Westerners visiting too. In terms of pure visitor numbers, Thailand was booming - and will boom again when Covid is behind us.

 

[ChipButty 15,550]

47 minutes ago, Dukeleto said:

Instead of begging why don’t they all get together and completely shutter All their hotels and lay off all staff. Can you imagine no hotels open in Bangkok??? That will get their attention and put the reality of what they are doing home to roost.

Do you think so? I get the feeling this government doesn't care about mass tourism no more, Thailand can survive without it

[Hayduke 7,125]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Hotel operators beg govt to consider reopening Thailand

 

They’re begging the wrong people…

 

These are issues that are decided by the big boss: Godfather Xi.

 

They should be begging China instead.

 

 

[FinChin67 708]

27 minutes ago, Dialemco said:

Hotels should realise it is not possible to open Thailand until Covid is under control and that they are only a small  part of losses being incurred in Tourism and related busnesses Hotels  are most able to sustain losses and should plan accordingly.

How is that? How about the staff that will be laid off (not a small amount of people), how they are going to plan?

[DLock 7,084]

But now would be a good time to start setting clear direction for those that do get the vaccine in the UK or the US, for example. What will be proof of the vaccine that Thailand will accept?

 

...are they allowed into Thailand like a normal tourist, with no quarantine restrictions once they get the vaccine? 

 

These are probably the questions people should be asking now.

 

Thailand is not going to open and this that persist in "its just the flu", go volunteer in the COVID ward with no PPE.