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48 minutes ago, keith101 said:

  1 hour ago, webfact said:

that when the pandemic is over and there is a vaccine the very first place that people will want to visit is Thailand. 

Now we definitely know that tourists won't return for a very long time! The spokesman from this office think that a speech a day is the same as an apple a day.

The ridiculous regulations in place to come to Thailand will ensure that tourism will drop substantially for years to come. The loss of restaurants and tourism facilities in tourist resorts will take years to recover. Many people living overseas have lost their jobs or been furloughed. They just don't have the money for long haul holidays. 

Only smog, traffic jams and human trafficking bringing in covid19 cases from Burma.

I am surprised that they didn't double the price for farangs! Oh I forgot that they are already selling them to farangs and merely gouging them for an extra 100,000 baht. 

A pragmatic decision. At least the people who are actually here are spending money and at the moment the hurdles for coming to Thailand are horrendous and extremely expensive. I, before retirement, used to visit Thailand 3 or 4 times a year. If I had to spend 2 weeks in an expensive quarantine prison with the first week confined to my hotel room I certainly would have chosen another country to visit for my holiday. 

"Reacting to questions on why she was not quarantined when she entered Thailand, the Disease Control Department's director-general, Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, said that the case was under probe."

Maybe it's because only dirty farangs with loads of money are being fleeced by the Thai Government and forced into expensive quarantine prison. It's assumed that all good Thai people will actually obey the quarantine regulations just as they obey (?) the wearing of motorbike helmets.

2 hours ago, ThreeEyedRaven said:

In many places boasting about gouging money is considered poor manners.

I don't think that this poor man realizes that his comments will soon be in the International Press and Media Outlets. What a great advert for Thailand "we are ripping off tourists!".

Don't know anything about Bangkok or Chiengmai but in Pattaya it's dead. Half of the decent restaurants are closed some permanently. The bars are dead many hotels are shut. The ones that remain open have 10% occupancy during the week and 30% at the weekend. Phuket is suffering even worse than Pattaya. 

Maybe some weed could be supplied to the head of TAT to either make him sleepy and make less annoying announcements or make more even more impractical ones.

Length of skirts and hair is more important to the twits running the Education Department than actually educating the students. Is it any wonder why so many students are on the streets protesting?

Banning big lorries at peak hours makes sense because they belch out smoke waiting in traffic jams. The better solution is to test the exhaust pipes of all lorries, busses and pickups and ban them from the roads until they have been fixed. Sadly the brown envelope syndrome will undermine that solution. 

Obviously the head of TAT should be appointed to lead the team as he has many great ideas. In fact he produces at least one unworkable idea a day. 

If Thailand remains closed to farang tourists then bar girls will forget the little English that they know and the ratings will fall further ????