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INSANE. The numbers speak for themselves. Tourism is the goose that laid the golden egg. The government has lost the plot - AGAIN. This will harm so very many locals who know only tourism after all these years.... i feel so sad.....
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Andrew Wood is correct in everything he says. There are too many mixed messages from the government - don't the relative ministries ever speak to each other??????
FACT: Thailand's tourism industry is on its knees. That is people employed in the industry and the ancillary companies that provide goods and services to it.
I am astonished by the vitriolic responses here and wonder what from which planet the people commenting so darkly come from. Did those people originally arrive here as tourists or are they locals? If they are expats, then they themselves arrived as tourists at some stage in the past.
In short, the statistics tell the story, whether one takes note of the editorial or not. The local people rely on tourists in Samui - and believe me they cannot wait for them to come back. They are suffering, and so are their families.
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That's great news. Really great!
Now, how do they get in????? Answers on a postcard please.
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And therein lies the problem - different rules for different nationalities! It's crazy!
Covid is non-discriminatory!
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People ARE without food, It's a fact. In Samui, a local farang-run non-profit, Sisters on Samui, set up a foodbank way back this year. They found communities of 30 people with one egg between them. They went down back streets and found people who had no food and no milk for their kids. I am aware of one, maybe two handouts from the government to help people on an island where virtually everyone has a link to tourism in some way...even the coconut lady.
It is REAL folks - people are suffering. And both locals and foreigners are helping those less fortunate. Having said that, these groups are also suffering. We have all lost our incomes too.
So the sooner the govt opens up the country- of course with cautious steps in terms of Covid testing, tracking and tracing - the better for all concerned.
I have never seen such a c*ck up of the job the govt is doing by sending out totally conflicting messages as to what they should do next. "Minimum insurance, min bank account balance, medical tourism, elite tourists" - there is no strategy (BTW a couple I know have invested in Elite visas and cannot get in ) ----- all these things just make the govt look inept and disorganised.
They need to work together on a safe and workable plan to re-open. If they don't then I fear Thailand is doomed as destination.
TBH other regional governments are handling the future much better.
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These initiatives are all well and good. However the whole hospitality industry is holding its breath as to when regular tourists, the bread and butter of this industry sector and provider of jobs to millions of locals, will be allowed back. Tourists are the largest contributor - they stay in hotels, eat out, go on trips, shop extensively etc.
As someone who is currently in quarantine in Bangkok, I do NOT understand why I could not have a COVID test on arrival and stay in a hotel near airport until the result comes through, and then, if the test is negative, fly back to my home in Samui and resume my life? Samui and Phuket are on their knees with no tourists. The government needs to open borders, putting into place strict arrival health protocols via testing, then maybe track and trace. All this nonsense about 14-day quarantine and having 500K in your bank account is certainly going to put off travellers who HAVE OTHER OPTIONS. And that includes medical tourists.
The government should tackle this in a sensible and realistic order. Please, please let tourists come back soon.
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13 hours ago, wgdanson said:
Either playing with phone, asleep or p...sed. Check her phone record and do a blood test.
I bet she was texting or on the phone. I saw a woman in Samui hit a dog (unhurt) the other day as she was texting whilst driving….
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22 hours ago, SkyNets said:
That's what happens when you take money but do not put any of it back into the system for clean beaches, safety and so on. The no smoking beach idea was clever too, think alot of the Chinese still smoke.
I agree - clean up the resort areas of Rubbish and improve the infrastructure of places like Samui where I live...
I think the TAT needs a MAJOR overhaul - some fresh blood and new ideas. if you go to London, Vietnam is doing major publicity there - Thailand cannot be complacent just because it is well established.
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well it's not me - wrong body shape (unfortunately)!
Okay given for Bt300 foreign tourist entry fee
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This beggars belief. First of all how are these 10 million tourists going to get in - why don't they tell us that? And secondly, why penalise them if they are giving Thailand their business? Talk about NO CLUE on reputation management. I can hardly believe it.