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On 10/11/2019 at 1:10 PM, snoop1130 said:

an increase in the numbers of agents and locations offering VAT refund service to foreign tourists

Will this boost tourism ?

I actually hoped that they would clean the sea so that I don't have to swim between the plastic next time.

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

No, I am not a Swede, and I am not from the UK. But I read the news.

Here is just one article which was easy to find with Google:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/immigration-uk-economy-what-are-the-benefits-stats-theresa-may-amber-rudd-tory-conference-speeches-a7346121.html

 

Is everything they write 100% correct? I don't know. But I read lot of similar articles and my conclusion is that all those foreigners cost a lot less than the average person think they cost.

You are making a mistake interpreting this article. 

Quote:

EU migrants are more likely to be in work than natives, with the participation rate for the group at just below 80 per cent, refuting the idea that most immigrants do not "contribute".

There are immigrants and EU immigrants.

In The Netherlands we have a lof of people/immigrants from Indonesia. This has a historical background, it used to be a Dutch colony.  Are these people a problem ?  No. Usually Indonesian people are very kind and friendly. They study, they work. They are good neighbours. Some of my best colleagues at work in the past were Indonesian. The same with Chinese. They work until they drop dead to give their families a better future. The best students at schools in NL are often Chinese. These people have a mentality of not giving up and doing everything they can to improve their future. 

The problem is with immigrants from Africa and muslim countries. About 80% of the prison population consists of people from there. Same percentages apply to people getting social benefits.

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

While that may be true for the long stay community, the average western tourist arrives on a visa exempt entry, stays at a booked hotel, goes on a few tours, and departs.

I doubt any of us have heard of a normal tourist being turned away, and I doubt they go on TVF anyway.

Almost every youtube video about Thailand talks about this. Really...  Tourists hearing that a visum in their passport does not guarantee entrance are likely to go somewhere else.

10 minutes ago, Fex Bluse said:

For years, searching for Thai stuff whilst outside Thailand would NOT return any hits from Thaivisa. 

 

That works ok. No problem. This is with a Dutch proxy.

1 hour ago, dabhand said:

No unpaid hospital bills? Hmmmm.

 

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/900767-uninsured-foreigners-burdens-thai-public-hospitals/

Quote "20 million baht negative in recent 8 years".  

That is 74000 Euro a year for Pattaya's biggest public hospital. 

About 16 million tourists visit Pattaya each year (government statistic, believe it or not)

20 million : 8 years : 16 million =

0,16 Baht for each tourist. Really, this is not worth taking about.

3 minutes ago, Isaanbiker said:

You have the BEST coffee shops on this globe. Would they decide to shut them down, Holland would have a little problem.

Our tourist authority is making the same mistakes like TAT.  They hope for better quality tourists who do not come for the coffeeshops and stay at cheap airbnb's  but prefer to visit museums and stay at expensive hotels. Fortunately the Dutch economy doesn't depend on tourism.

50 minutes ago, sunnyboy2018 said:

Absolute nonsense regarding YT earnings.  99.99999% make nothing. There is no reason to think this video is any different. 

Most people make nothing because they don't get enough views. This video has 558,272 views. 

You get paid for the number of views you get. It depends on the niche how much. It can be $3 per 1000 views, less, but I also heard about people getting over $10 for 1000 views (videos about finance get high paying ads).  I think it is safe to say that he made at least $2000 with this video.  And this will increase if the video gets more views later.  If you make a video like this every week and do not pay taxes you have a nice income. Especially when you live in the Philippines.

2 hours ago, topt said:

Thanks for the link.

You may want to have a read of this to see what this guy says about Cloudflare -

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/choosing-the-best-vpn-for-you/

 

The VPN comparison tables are a bit of an eye opener.

What he says about Cloudflare is 100% nonsense. He clearly doesn't understand anything.

Quote:

Additionally, CloudFlare, Incapsula, and similar services have recently become popular with websites for their DDoS protection and dynamic bandwidth scaling. However, these services act as an additional man in the middle between your VPN’s website and you. In the wrong hands, the information they collect and have access to about your VPN’s website, and your interaction with it, could be compromised. Avoid VPNs that use CloudFlare, Incapsula, and other such services.

Cloudflare is put in front of a website. So when you want to see a webpage you do connect with Cloudflare. Cloudflare gives you the webpage from it's own cache. If the webpage is not in the cache the page is requested from the website itself. For websites this is nice. Cloudlfare keeps the webpage in cache. So even when thousands of people want to see your content all requests are handled by Cloudflare.

When a website uses Cloudflare there is no way to bypass this.  All VPN's will get the pages from Cloudflare. No exceptions. His advice to avoid VPN's that use Cloudflare is laughable.

2 hours ago, steven100 said:

>> 556,681 views on a video promoting to visit the Philippines and not Thailand.

 

so does that mean you are moving 

No. I am mainly interested in the influence of social media. I think the influence this boy has on travelling and destinations is for example much bigger than TAT...

556,681 views on a video promoting to visit the Philippines and not Thailand.

1 hour ago, White Christmas13 said:

OMG you have to get PR first or become Australian citizen

you don't get the benefits as soon you come of the airplane

or some other ways

Yes. And you will get it for free. Without contributing something first. 

22 minutes ago, Zikomat said:

I think, everybody should be allowed to arrive safely. Then , only those meeting certain criteria should be allowed to stay.

This sounds so nice. And human also. When I was younger (and naive) I also believed in this.

Fact: There are 1,2 billion people in Africa. They expect this number to grow to 2 billion in the next 30 years.

Many people have nothing there. There is already not enough food now,  many have no education, no view on a better future. There is corruption and mismanagement. And climate change will make food shortages even worse.

Expect that 2 billion people from Africa would love to move to Europe in the next 30 years.

And statistics show that 89% will not work but stay at home living on unemployment benefits.  Immigration is not solution...

2 minutes ago, khunken said:

 leading to Ghaddafi's death and the country becoming a failed state. That was the uncorking of the bottle.

 

Sorry, but you are posting rubbish.

What happened in Libya was no unlocking of the bottle. I still remember 35 years ago, I was 10 years old at that time. Refugees on television. They were already coming 35 years ago. It had nothing to do with Libya. Libya became a mess. And smugglers used Libya to take advantage of that for some time. Now it is more difficult in Libya. So now the refugees are using:

"The ship, which had set sail from Tunisia"

Refugees come, and what happened in Libya has nothing to do with that.