DonniePeverley

There are customers. There are 40 million tourists. Just cheap ones.

They are importanting mass cheap tourists - who would rather eat a 7.11 cheese toast than dine in a restaurant. Service charge and VAT fees bill padding is not a great look i'll be honest.

solution is to have more polluting flights, and more tourists to eco damage everything. Welcome to Thailand logic.

You open the papers .... all you ever hear from adminstrators is 'we have to do this to booost tourism'. It's literally every little thing - BOOST TOURISM. 40 million visitors, crumbling infrustructure, awful behaviour all round - and they just seek boosts. How much more boosting can they do ?! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST

Any sort of bastian this country had with it's culture has been slowly erorded these past few years. This will be another kick in the teeth.

Every country has bans on what speech they ban to keep society harmonious ... American the country that has free speech written into their constitution bans the following free speech - incitement to imminent lawless action, true threats, obscenity, defamation... and many more sexual topics. That's not free speech is it then? They are deporting students for supporting Palestine. That's not free speech. Thailand has many laws too on what they will not allow you to say. Essentially what i am finding online is that there is element who clamour this argument for free speech in the UK and America, but what is translates to is, is that they want to be racist and they don't like it how they can't. Most of the free speech laws were not made by Starmer or the current government but years ago. They are designed to protect minorities from racist idiots who can target innocent people for no fault but of the colour of their skin. You go to Germany and you can't say certain things around the Hollocaust. There are strong laws on anti semitism (rightly). Is that a ban on free speech ? Why not just let live and love one another? Why you so hateful ?

I literally a saw hundreds of thousands of farmers protesting against the government in central London a few weeks ago. Now would they be able to protest in Dubai, Singapore, China? Where is this bastion of open free speech you want available to you ?

I'm reading free speech in America is not around anymore with recent arrests. Try and speak freely in Thailand and see what happens. Go to Dubai and try there too. What about China ? Go protest whilst your out there and see what happens. In the UK we can protest say what we want, but just no hate speech - ie racism. Which is fair.

Absolute nonsense. Once you allow 4 to open, that's the box opened. Then slowly with a few backhanders they open everywhere. Mark my words, see Cambodia, there will be regions changed and dedicated to casinos. Wall to wall casinos. Pure filth.

It's a huge tourist draw. Why do they want to get rid of something that brings in tourism? Tourism is there only booming industry.

What happens is that they completely take over. You open pandors boxes and they will build them everywhere. Can you trust the thai administration to curb them? Not a a chance. They'll build so many for Chinese launders that the y will build them on beach zones if they can.

Absolute bonkers.

Absolutely nuts. Did they not see the mess in Cambodia ? Singapore is a complete different market. You have executives, bankers, living in Singapore. The visitors to Thailand are cheap mass tourists on budget holidays, with crumbling infrustructure - it's going to do exactly the same as what was happening in Cambodia. When you open this can of worms they will not stop and be building everywhere. Then destruction.

Indian restaurants. Indian tour groups. Indian hotels. Indian nightclubs. Indian restaurants. Everything set up for them. How much of that is going back into the local economy - only they will know. But it's crazy how much of an influx into one city it has become. Even middle class indians i know are appalled.