bloodyholly

2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The festival is supported by the Ministry of Commerce as one of its ”Blue Flag” events, renowned throughout the country for supporting local vendors in order to sell goods and produce at cheap prices to help boost the economy.

Doesn’t really support “local” vendors as most of the vendors aren’t local to Phuket

22 minutes ago, yeahbutif said:

just get the people off the roads who should not be on them

That would decimate the Thai motorcycle/automotive businesses????

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The accident occurred on a small dark road

Bravo to the authorities for erecting street lights so quickly after the accident

1 hour ago, zzzzz said:

ever hear of sharing??  are weekend specials once a month in patong really going to kill ya?
from what i see, plenty of customers ( minus the farangs) in Phuket town

I think you’ll find they’re every weekend. 

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Among the events to be held is the ‘Thong Fah on the Beach & Seafood Festival” on Patong Beach, organised by Patong Municipality together with the Phuket office of the Ministry of Commerce,

On behalf of the few remaining  restaurants that are trying to stay open, may I say a big thank you to Patong Municipality and the Ministry of Commerce for taking away what very few customers that are in town. Thanks

22 hours ago, bloodyholly said:

Could they please budget an amount out of the B14bn to sort out the roads in Patong, they are an embarrassment 

Further to the above, I wonder what became of this cunning plan?

Could they please budget an amount out of the B14bn to sort out the roads in Patong, they are an embarrassment 

13 hours ago, Dexxter said:

“... it make no difference if Thailand opens its borders or not. Our borders are firmly closed to all outbound travellers except for a very few critical exceptions.”

And that is the crux of the matter. Thailand can do whatever it wants to encourage international tourists (& quote fantastic numbers of expected tourists), but while ever these (potential) tourists have to face restrictions in their own countries, and the airlines transporting them, the tourism industry is kaput.

Meanwhile, some more good news for the Thai rice industry

Here’s a suggestion.... why have more ‘food festivals’ on the beaches? I’m sure the few remaining restaurant proprietors would appreciate it

15 hours ago, GinBoy2 said:

But I fear Thailand doesn't have the self awareness to understand the fundamental problems

Spot on

7 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Sponsored by Rolex

Not Patek Philippe?????

‘Fruit basket’

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From an international news source from beginning of November

No ploblem as long as this stuff is freely available????????????????????????????????

On 11/28/2020 at 11:04 AM, rooster59 said:

elections to be held nationwide on Dec 20

Oh crikey!

Thats another 3 weeks we’ll have to put up with the motorbikes with loud music trundling around publicising their favourite candidate....great????

As the old saying goes....”it takes one to know one”????

De-Sal plants?

courtesy of China..... the donor that keeps on giving

A suggestion.......

First teach the bu§§ers how to work the ‘dip’ switch

Can the various municipalities come up with other attractions other than food festivals? The festivals may succeed in attracting a few customers to the beaches for cheap food, but the bigger impact is they take away customers from the few existing restaurants that are struggling to survive. Restaurants employ locals, buy produce locally, pay rents, pay taxes and pay utilities. Food festivals offer  municipalities a short term supply of small amounts of cash from stall rental only.

The rush of tourists has started????

Think of this as a practice for when they want to install new high voltage cables in approx 5 years time