The Farang

Not too business minded to pick and choose your customers. Westerners spend more money when we travel there and definitely help out the locals by patranizing their businesses.  You won't get that from the Chinese and their zero dollar tours.  Westerners yes, we complain when we are treated poorly and are not accepting to mistreatment.   But we spend more money.  Seems a little racist to be selective in the customers who are coming to your country and giving your country money.  It's that mindset that is destroying tourism in Thailand not the Coronavirus. 

Thailand > Vietnam.   Visited both places, lived in one.  Aside from the fact they make it hard to stay in Thailand it's still better.

23 minutes ago, kelboy said:

It's all to late,all the tourist have heard and are going elsewhere. Also saving a lot of money. 

Yes it is too late.  The above mentioned is a product of years of this kind of behavior.   People are going elsewhere where its cheaper and foreigner's are welcomed. 

Yes it is too late.  Tourists are going elsewhere.  This a product of the above mentioned behavior over a course of years.

The problem is not the high baht.  If you come from a western country its still way cheaper then where you live.  It's a few main reasons why  (I have lived in Thailand and come back and forth since 2016):

1.)  They don't do enough to get big businesses to come to Thailand.   If you bring businesses that brings jobs and more farangs will come thus spend money. 

2.) The way foreigner's are treated here is not that great.  Starting from the moment you come to the border and deal with immigration, to when you get to your hotel,  drive down the street and get stopped by police daily being extorted for money.  They are aways gaming you when the conversation starts off with "where you from?  How long you on holiday?  What hotel you stay?"  Thats them qualifying you.  They want to know what country you come from to see if you have money, how long you stay so I know how much time i have to get money out of you, what hotel you stay will also tell me how much money you have

3.) Taxis overcharging and businesses overcharging foreigner's trying to get as much money out of us quickly before we leave from our holiday.  Short term thinking.

4.) It's just not safe there.  So many people die either on the road in a accident because the roads are lawless, or the tourist activities like jet skies.  Every week someone dies.  I remember the group of Chinese tourists about 40 people died not too long ago because of poor safety.  I get it if people get drunk and dont follow the rules but they have to do a better job at enhancing safety.

I travel frequently and this is one of the only countries in southeast Asia that I have seen this level of greed.  If I am a tourist and come there and those 4 things happen to me, I wouldn't come back and tell everyone about my bad experience and then they won't come.