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20 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

I edited this as I have done a bit of research and it appears TUI is in big trouble.

 

May 11th - Announced measures to curb COVID-19 transmission when things get back to normal

May 12th - No travel until 12th June 2020

May 12th - Announced 8000 job cuts

May 15th - Critical travel advice issued including refund credits with bonus incentive or cash refund

May 16th - TUI announce doctor's notes required for refunds

May 18th - Thai hoteliers appeal for help after being stiffed

 

I wouldn't hold my breath for payment if I was a Thai hotelier. It's going to get very interesting how bad this crisis is going to be for the Thai tourism industry. Personally I think everyone is underestimating the situation... this is like an apocalypse for tourism and that is 20% or so of Thai GDP.

It is going to be as bad as only possible. 
p.s. I wonder if the billion bahts donations made by Western lovers to their Thai gfs are somehow included in those 20% number. If not - then the real number should be much higher.

Why should TUI pay out anything if they know that their business is essentially over? The one who is left with the cash at the moment of crisis - wins. 

Pattaya, as we know it, will not survive. Actually - it is already dead.

All those 10000 tourists who will visit Thailand this year will hardly like the idea.

On 5/8/2020 at 6:05 PM, mr mr said:

my god is this stuff actually happening ? that divider thing is so stupid it is laughable. so you can sit on a scooter together while on your way to eat but gotta divide while you do ? 

 

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all of this <deleted> is becoming so mind numbing. social distancing and all that goes along with it is the biggest joke ever played out on humans. 

Similar to a new regulation of 250 passengers per BTS train. So you will have a social distancing inside the train and a total lack of one on the stations with the crowds of hundreds waiting for the next train. 

The only thing that differs them from children is their obsession with money.

2 hours ago, izod10 said:

He is risen from the dead

Something better. Suicide.

Invite that Warin guy for the final testing. Tell him to bring some holy water - should definitely help.

"Prayut has stated publicly that he consults a fortune teller, Warin Buawiratlert, regularly. He said there was no harm in seeking advice. When suffering from fever and aches early in his premiership, he blamed his ills on spells cast by his political enemies and combated the malady with holy water." Wikipedia

50 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

Maybe few personal painfull experiences?

Feel free to share and to tell here if you want ????

A lot of stories about ladyboys attacking foreigners. I personally always try to avoid them. Real savages.

This corona vaccine greedy race might create several more corona-like viruses.  

2 hours ago, billd766 said:

Why?

 

Do you have a gay lover and do you believe that ALL farangs have, or should have, a gay lover?

That is my assumption. Thai ladyboys are savages. So we have a lonely and money poor foreigner. Financial motives should be excluded then. What is left is the heart affair. Probably the guy has decided to change his old LB friend for a new one. Turned out to be a fatal mistake.

Are they going to skip “the bats” step?

5 hours ago, Mikeasq60 said:

Sir, I believe that such as myself that if your healthy you will be fine!  I want to get back to Thailand to be with my wife!

Why you did not return before all this mess has started? 

On 5/3/2020 at 8:24 AM, pattayadude said:

Agreed. If Pattaya cleans up its act and invest in clean beaches, clean streets, public transportation and become a first world city, it may have a chance to become a tourist spot. But if it insists to stay mostly as a sex city, you will see more rental discounts first and more vacant condos to a point of a town of ghost buildings. In the light of covid, even after a vaccine is found, sex cities have no future IMO.

I'd be too scared to be with someone if I don't know how many guys she has kissed, fondled or had unprotected sex with, as long as the mutation of this virus is hanging over our head like "the sword of Damocles", a mythical metaphor representing an imminent and ever-present danger.

God save us from Pattaya becoming another first world city. We have enough of them and I prefer this naughty sex city to any of those hugely overpriced and boring places. 
 

2 hours ago, Toosetinmyways said:

Of course there is no link because the definition of tourist to the immigration officer depends on which side of the bed he slept on or the phase that the moon was in last night.

The point I was trying to make was that someone with a dodgy tourist visa history will not convince the IO otherwise by waving a copy of the Oxford English dictionary around.

 As I wrote in the removed message - there was not a single time when I needed to explain my tourist status to the Thai immigration or at the embassy. It is only here on TV I am constantly reminded by the guys on retirement and marriage visas that since I am a (dodgy!) tourist I should not stay in TH for ‘too long’. And this is when dictionary definitions might help.

1 hour ago, lkv said:

What is next?

 

- VOA suspension until October

- Visa exempt suspension

- The end of multiple non O/B and visa runs every 3 months.

- Mandatory insurance for every foreigner travelling into the Kingdom for extended periods of time (I am referring to non O extensions, they are actually foreign pensioneers staying in Thailand on a temporary extesion of stay)

- more TM's, phone tracking and so on.

 

For the peace of the nation.

Sounds quite realistic to me.

10 minutes ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Less tourists for a long duration is actually more likely to benefit visa runners. 

Why do you think so? Crossing the borders will not be an easy task in the near future.

4 minutes ago, nahkit said:

So we're both agreed then that a tourist is someone who doesn't actually live in the country?

Then we have to define the verb ‘to live’. One of the meanings is -

to have your home somewhere.

I , personally, stay in TH for more than 1 year. And I don’t have my home here. I am a tourist. 

37 minutes ago, nahkit said:

When I click on the Cambridge dictionary, this is what I get :-

 

"someone who visits a place for pleasure and does not live there"

 

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/learner-english/tourist

And this is my link:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tourist

-someone who visits a place for pleasure and interest, usually while on holiday

Also:

Collins:

A tourist is a person who is visiting a place for pleasure and interest, especially when they are on holiday.

Merriam - Webster:

one that makes a tour for pleasure or culture

52 minutes ago, at15 said:

The fact is incoming foreign arrivals are set to begin June 1, something will have to change for that not to be the case. 

 

I would rephrase it and say that a lot of things in the different countries have to change for that TO BE THE CASE.

The so called Chinese tourism only pays off when they come in huge masses. Anything less than that and this becomes not profitable. Don’t see the Chinese coming in masses soon.

23 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

If the borders are not open by August then they might extend the current "amnesty" IMO the will open before August unless Laos and Cambodia have a high infection rate then.

This is an interesting moment. While the Thais may be somehow sure about their own numbers (or at least pretend that they do) - why should they believe the Cambodian or Lao numbers (especially with a clear knowledge that their own numbers are fake) ? The trust element will be quite low between the countries in the near future. I personally don’t see the borders fully open any time soon.