Blumpie

Could?  They won't.  Pure and simple they won't.

No need talking about it.

Oh no more high quality tourists not able to come LOL!

Considering that the passport office was closed for years and years and years it's little wonder they are not coming.  

HAAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!!!!!!!!

This may be unnecessary.

Ive had four, that's enough.  Personal opinion only, you are very welcome to get one if you wish with no judgement from me.  

As I wrote many times, getting people to come back travelling when a large proportion of travellers are Chinese and they are not travelling the chances of not having a rebound like they anticipated were high and we can see evidence of that.  I dont care about you my fellow beer bellied friends, I mean real tourism people here for a few weeks and out who spend $$$ with more wild abandon than the average expat.  

Sure, revenge tourism picked up but now it's over.  Expect next year unless Chinese decide to start to travel again en masse a similar result.  

On 4/19/2023 at 12:57 AM, Goat said:

Cambodia has nothing on Thailand as far as higher quaility tourists are concerned. The place is a dump with no infrastructure.

Communist Loas with no beaches will never threaten.

Thailand number one in SEA. Always has been, always will be.

 

Quality tourists are not going to be stopped by this insignificant fee. 

Sorry, this bears repeating.  Amen, amen, amen.  

How is this any different from the usual carnage?  

2 denied from bungee jumping.  Yeah, shows you the safety record of Thailand.  

Honestly, beware of everything that you do here.  It is not up to first world standards.  

Thaighland will save the worlds airline industry!!!  There is nothing they can't do.  

1 hour ago, zzaa09 said:

For some 60 years....

War in Myanmar is considered normal.  The place is bizarre.  

The only people who truly value it is the Chinese for jade.  Oil and gas, yeah, whatever.  Easier places to get it without the violence.

It's a shortage of staff and pilots.  Pilots get paid terribly considering what they do.  

This will not get any better, only worse.  The days of cheap flights are over for now.  People from different parts of the world need to be pilots - those in the first world they don't even get a living wage.  

Tourism has just started to rebound.  This is nothing.

I aint learnin' no chat thang!!!!  

Oh pahlease.... Who cares?

Hey sorry if this has been covered but Russians and Ukrainians are probably getting their 
VOA revoked for Indonesia as they are being over run by them and they are over staying because, understandably, they don't want to go back to war.  

Ta.

You may not believe this but Chinese are still not travelling yet in large numbers.  The post covid lockdown pent up demand is over now.  

31 minutes ago, Samui Farid said:

What's the screaming?  "They're leaving the country because they don't want to be drafted.  Russia is a huge country with a professional army and equipment.  You are not recruited on the street there ???????? The Russians have been an integral part of the tourism sector for many years.  And were always welcome guests.  While the West is destroying itself, business is going well in Russia.  You can afford to vacation in Thailand.  And Thailand is grateful that they spend their money here in the country and not in another country.  When you run a business you are grateful for every customer.  You can't choose them based on race, gender or religion.  They get visas like everyone else who moves here in this forum.

Im sorry that it seems people cannot distinguish people from politics.  They are entirely different.  

13 hours ago, SiSePuede419 said:

Amazing how many International Banking experts there are here. ????

Its amazing how many experts there are on everything on every subject here.

Excuse me, I'm going to look in the mirror now.  Have a good day.  ????  

On 3/12/2023 at 5:03 AM, transam said:

In the past, we have had members quoting the same stuff, but nothing has changed....

Hey I hope so.  It seems like Thailand is changing into an anti corruption country which we all know is a smokescreen for what really goes on and will continue to go on.  My point is they love to hang foreigners out to dry.  

We get old and the young come up and lead.  The days that we knew are far gone.  

Could they get 80 million?  They will get over 40 million eventually and it's not outrageous to think so.  The real question is how sustainable is this tourism number given the environmental challenges that are present and will surely get worse?  Particularly in the hot season?  

It would be interesting to see another 50 years how things settle out.  

I personally think that the writing is on the wall.  If you don't have enough money to stay in Thailand or retire in Thailand your days of using agents will either be far more expensive or not possible at all.  

2 hours ago, mania said:

Many of the country Thai folks I know keep most of their saving in Gold or at home.

Many do not really trust banks actually

 

It surprises me but at the same time given the corruption there it really shouldn't.  I often wonder how expats end up getting their money out of there when they leave.

And most end up leaving - it's not really a home.  It's year to year.