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It is obvious. There is not even an attempt to look for alternative solutions for the situation in the entertainment industry. This does not only affect the few tourists who have been here since April, but also the millions of young Thais under "house arrest" Then the parties take place in private houses and then there is no longer anything with state control. The government rides its Puritan ideology rather than being factual about the issue.

In principle you are right, but 2.8 million THB is nothing in comparison to the other billions of expenditures for questionable state projects where parts of the money evaporates in a wonderful way and nobody knows where it has gone.

That's not a good idea. 111 phones only. All officials who get one are then super VIPs who run the country. What about the other officers who didn't get one and who believed they were VIPs? There is bound to be envy and disapproval, among those who didn’t get one. Ultimately, it's a mark / symbol of how important each are. One or the other general will definitely be pi$$ed off.

23423 Baht per piece. Are these originals? Or China Copies?

So far for a single traveler: In BKK Terminal 21. Grand Deluxe high Floor 48sqm for 4600 per night. Phuket Vijitt Resort Deluxe Villa 70 sqm with seaview for 3600 per night. Koh Phangan Santhiya Pool Suite 53 sqm with seaview for 3300 per night. For me, these are hotels at the top end. Would like to know in which hotel / accommodation you are staying. 555

The foreigners are often used as scapegoats here. Are to blame for plague and cholera. Are to blame that there is no more money. Are to blame for moral decline and much more. This is then always regularly injected into the minds of the normal population through the government-controlled media. Goverments like to use this tactic to distract attention from their own wrongdoings. The dilemma, on the one hand the foreigner with his unloved presence, and on the other hand as a necessary evil to get his money.

My friend, top earner, is the tourist TAT dreams of. He only books top hotels, visits the best seafood restaurants and spends a lot of money. Now his girlfriend comes flown in. He booked a room for himself and his girlfriend for 4 nights for 3040 Baht per night. In addition, for the first night of quarantine a SHA + room in the same hotel for 11900 Baht including transfer and PCR. Sure that he did the math for himself. 11900 - 3040 = 8860 Baht room paid. 8860 - 2600 = 6260 Baht PCR test paid 6260 - 700 = 5560 Baht VIP transfer (BKK -Asoke)paid. Now he asks himself for what service he paid the 5560 baht? That's $ 170 US. additional expenditure without an additional, specified service. He takes it easy, but it sticks in the head of a tourist for a long time.

Another reason is that there are not enough different vaccines available. China vax doesn't have the best reputation. It is also about the international recognition of vaccines, especially if you want to travel abroad. You can also ask aNutin, he has firsthand experience.

Would say that the high season 2021 is gone. As always, those responsible start thinking and planning too late. It is the same with my craftsmen. A hole has to be drilled. Until they then realize that you need a drill mashine, the right stone drill bits, the drill chuck key and an extension cord ...... half the day is over.

It's always good to be up at 250 before the game even starts.

Another sweet. On the TAT page below the large logo for SHA Hotels. Quite a few tourists click on it in their never-ending search for the latest information. Can anyone tell me what that is? How can you find a SHA hotel there?

An example: For the Phuket Sandbox, people have to book the RT-PCR with ThailandPsas. Then you have to book 7 nights at the SHA Hotel separately. Then upload them to Thailand Pass along with the insurance, vaccination certificate and passport. - Check visa requirements beforehand - Pay and wait for ThailandPsas dokument. - Find the "right" insurance. Pay and wait until you get the documents. - Find an approved hotel, pay in advance, wait for the documents. - Then convert all documents to jpg. - If the insurance documents consist of several pages, build 1 jpg from them - For the vaccination documents, cut out the QR code for both vaccinations. Make only 1 jpg out of it again. - Make sure that you are working with the correct browsers and email addresses. - Organize approved transport to the hotel. - Print out all documents on paper. Then they get the Thai passport online. Before leaving, they need to get RT PCR, fly to Phuket. When they land, they get an RT-PCR test at the airport, they also get ATKs. You take ATK after arriving at the hotel. Stay there for 7 days and after free to go. - Fill out TM6 - Fill out T8 - Download the Mor Chana App. Try to register. - Wait for pcr test result - Make your atk selftest at day 6-7 - Make Foto from your self test. - Give or send result from selftest to your hotel. Upload in MorChana is not possible. - When check out do not forget health letter from hotel. Did I forget something? The effort for test and go is similar. Question: Does anyone have any idea how to make this even more complicated?

Perhaps it would also be a good idea to start with the hospitals that issue disproportionately high bills for their services. Such a Covit insurance, which covers $ 50K or $ 100K, is also a temptation for hospitals to exhaust this pot to the full. A uniform list of costs / services would make sense. The price differences for one and the same service are gigantic here. And in the case of foreigners, an extra 200-300% is generally added again.

The newes CCSA Data is interesting. From all arrivals 68852 = 100% 3152 = 4,68% were not vaccinated (quarantine group). All others were vaccinated 65700= 95,42% All were PCR tested before flight (exception only unvaccinatrd Thais who flew with Thai Airways in). And all PCR tested on arrival. Only 89 = 0,13% tested positiv. and how many of them were Without serious sympoms is unfortunately unknown. In various studies, is said that only 13-20% of Covit positiv peoples show symptoms at all. 89 * 0.2 = 18 people. And how many of them already had previous illnesses or whether which of them have to be ventilated is also unknown. My point: Coincidentally we have an ideally typical group of vaccinated people from many different countries with an unbelievable vaccination rate of 95%. The number of Covit positives is very, very small. There is much to suggest that a high vaccination rate could avoid a lot of suffering and misery.

All of the reporting and methodology of data collection has been garbage for decades. Lots of activities horrible (TAT website) or nonexistent (CRM). The highest of emotions is a bouquet of flowers for every millionth visitor at the airport. Even too lazy to evaluate the back of the TM 6 cards (which also needs a lot of improvement). They collect the email addresses like stupid, but don't do anything with them. The last lowlight was the commercial with Prayut as the main actor. As a marketing specialist, you can only throw up. Useless, the whole lot.

The TAT number lottery is funny. From April 2022, the numbers will work like a high-rise express lift. Especially when the months of April and May were traditionally always low. From June to September the second wave of tourism traditionally comes when schools and universities in Europe close for the summer festivities and many take their annual vacation. Thailand then competes with the Mediterranean countries, which (currently) can be traveled with almost no time-consuming and expensive paperwork. And the low budget solo travelers, students, bagpackers, party people then also have 1, 2, 3 months time, but Thailand doesn't want them anymore. They will go again, like this year, to Mallorca, Ibiza, Bulgaria, Lloret de Mar, Portugal, Mykonos, Croatia, Balaton, Malta, Ischgl, Bodrum, etc. In October and November the traditional low season comes again with a lot of rain in Thailand. In December at the latest, when it gets cold at the northern hemisphere, the independent "snowbirds" come, who like to stay for several months and around Christmas and New Years also the young short-trip party people. Nobody knows if and when China will let go of its hordes in 2022. Against this background, I think the 18 million is very excessive.

Also the model and actor scout agency.

It is frightening at what intellectual level tourism policy is here. I suspect the thousands of TAT employees haven't even asked their potential tourists / customers like: What do you associate with a holiday in Thailand? Answers would have come like: sunshine White beaches blue ocean Palm trees party and fun beautiful women spicy food friendly people adventure Exotic And then you turn it into a commercial. In the advertising film with Prayut there is none of it. The man deals with things of which he obviously has no knowledge. The flop probability of his commercial is 100%. Pure waste of budget.

A commercial for a beach vacation where an old man in long ironed trousers and black patent leather shoes stands depressed in the sand. And everything in dull gray colors. It is terrible. Too bad, the makers have not seen the commercials with Kate Yanai - Summer dreaming - beforehand.

Come on. That's must be a joke. No advertising agency on this planet would make such a commercial to attract tourists to visit Thailand for a holiday. A couple of old men in front of a lonely beach setting. Who should that inspire? Which target groups? What is the message? The whole scene looks sad. A happy beach life looks different. No families playing on the beach, no beach party and fun flair., no women, no sport, no fun, no game. The actors act as if they have just come from a funeral. No potential tourist could identify themself with these actors. It's just ridiculous.

Good article on alcohol and Thailand. https://www.thaienquirer.com/35080/opinion-thailand-stop-blaming-alcohol-as-a-source-of-every-problem/

Trying to give a politically anti-alcohol agenda a pseudo-scientific look is ridiculous. His justification for not opening bars, pubs and nightlife seems clumsy when you know how viruses spread, that has little to do with alkehol. Not all of those who have received Covid or who are in intensive care units are alcoholics. Each individual measure / prohibition is always viewed in comparison to other measures. For example in gyms where people are physically active and breathe accordingly, coffee shops and restaurants where a lot of people sit close together for a long time or people in fully occupied trains and buses. That is OK. But it's not OK in bars and pubs. People also sit there together indoors. The attempt now to isolate the alcohol as the only cause is ridiculous. Even his confused theory of a weakened muscle doesn't help much.

If you are too young to die but too old for Rock'n Roll it is your problem.

It is worrying indeed. Never in the recent past has the military made a coup and has secured power / government position for so long, already since 7 years. At first, the majority were happy that the bloody fights between red and yellow had ended. Slowly the majority of Thais notices that democracy has been systematically dismantled over the years, critics are locked away, the opposition has been silenced with all tricks, press censorship, assembly bans, Police are increasingly armed with anti-riot gear, for the majority the economic situation has deteriorated, corruption continues, only now has a different color and nepotism still prevails. The socio-political situation in Thailand is now a mix of Burma, China and Cambodia. Many has called the devil to drive out the Beltzebub. But now they can't get rid of him. Will there still be free and fair elections next year?

You got 4 times higher. I ok with it