paul1804

Just more political BS!

yes true but historically schnitzel is German/Austrian using veal!

Exactly what I was thinking, except for the schnitzel bit!!

The picture says it all, much like the Myanmar Junta leader he is a piece of garbage and China has its dirty little hands in both countries.

I have a restaurant in Koh Samui where we get a few Russians of which most are families, pleasant, well behaved & are good spenders. Being a westerner there are a few cultural differences which takes a bit of getting used but overall they are quite ok so maybe we on Samui get the cream of the crop when it comes to Russians given what I read online.

It is a very complex situation, in my humble opinion I see 3 problems here, firstly Hamas needs to go, Netanyahu is difficult to say the least, the Palestinians need a home and given the hostility between the 2 parties a 2 state solution is the only way forward. Both are not the easiest to get along with so stop trying to make them coexist in a shared society!

Austrians or Australians, I say one smart Mayor!! I have had both in my restaurant and are good clients not like others from some Eastern European countries as well as Indians & Chinese who are budget spenders!! I also have good Russian customers who have different cultural standards but are quite ok!

Maybe Cambodia fired the first shots but Thai military bombing Cambodia just prior to the agreed deadline is hardly considered fair & reasonable! I guess the Thai military hierarchy is taking any opportunity it can to justify the military budget!

Yes absolutely correct, Chinese involvement on SE Asian scam centres is huge and also Thailands crackdown on scam centres and opening Casinos is money out of Han Sen pockets so he is not happy with the current Thai administration!!

Just an uneducated tosser who thinks in his tiny mind that slapping some innocent Cambodian will change anything. Like the Burmese the Cambodians are in Thailand to fill the labour shortage and often doing tasks that Thais feel are either beneath them or may involve work!!! It also gives them a feeling of superiority looking down on the "Brown People" as they call them.

So their scam centre's can get back to scamming people!!!!!

I need to stop reading these TAT, TCT & other similar agencies articles! They contract themselves weekly, obviously dont proof read their stories and mostly offer a bunch of dribble. In my area wholesalers are experiencing a better June/July than the last few years, tourist accommodation for August is almost completely booked so it can't be all doom & gloom in the tourist industry. Yes Thailand is no longer the budget destination it once was but thats not really a bad thing because budget destinations so often attract budget tourists and Thailands deficient infrastructure is overloaded, remember Thais dont see the bigger picture where better infrastructure attracts tourist with bigger spending budgets. One day they will get it so lets hope for those in the industry its not to late. Thailand is still a relatively cheap destination globally, locally produced food, housing, restaurants, fuel etc etc. Hopefully the Tarrif war will lower the cost to the consumer of Thai imports which globally are on the expensive side, compliments of a greedy short sited government but I suppose its an easier way to collect revenue!!!

To keep a whole bunch of unproductive people employed at the Tax payers expense!!

That is Thailand & it is the Thai military, what else can you say but unbelievable & a disgrace against humanity!

Last week its doom & gloom & the next week it claiming high tourist numbers so at least this article is somewhere in between. With poor infrastructure, rising prices, scams, Taxi mafia, violence, safety & outdated visa rules are just a few reasons why Thailand often struggles with attracting more tourists. Their marketing strategies target the wrong nations, if you are going to offer bargain hotel rates at least offer it to tourists who will actually spend money when the arrive but Thailand makes these offers to low spending nations!! It appears their preference is to attract numbers & not spenders!