DonniePeverley

Disgusting mass cheap tourism. Revenue is down per person too. Which clearly indicates they are getting more cheaper tourists. What happened to quality tourism ?

Tommy doesn't talk about this lot that much

Thailand is addicted to mass cheap tourism. Till it can lumber it's way out of that, and diversify the economy it's always going to be doomed.

Language. They all speak an americanised English.

Patong beach next year : This is what they want. They don't care for any experience, any infrustructure, the effect on local Thai's suffering - just squash them in and let them have a miserable weeks holiday. Utter lunacy. Tourism numbers up, but revenue down. An addiction to CHEAP MASS TOURISM.

Strettha and his cohorts have made no attemps (at least succesful) to diversify Thailand's economy, the way Vietnam, Malaysia are succesfully doing. Instead he has pushed Thailand into a spiral of addiction into cheap mass tourism. However, this time the visitor numbers will be on steroids and it will be cheaper tourists. An utterly ridiculous leadership decision.

Here comes cheap mass tourism. Thailand is about to get very ugly. Srettha is utterly useless. Nomad = backpacker with a laptop.

Can anyone point to a single achievement from Srettha? Absolutely usless. More of a tourist minister. And even with that ... no nuance, cleaning up the industry to attract a better clientel - NOPE. JUST OPEN THE DOORS TO MASS TOURISM was his solution and the problems that will face Thailand because of this utter nonsense.

This gives far more clarity to the whole incident. The two lads were totally out of control. Absolute vile. They've also harmed race relationships within the community with those who have genuine issues- with their attempts to be portrayed as victims, although i believe some around them might have jumped on the bandwagon having seen the edited video of the stamping. However, the fact remains the officer stamping and kick to the head was still out of control. But it does give a clear motive why he did that, and does give an explanation.

The officers hold guns. They are heavily trained to deal with their emotions. Controlling their temper is their job. What an utterly idiotic thing to say.

It's quite clear both camps may well be at fault here, with the 'victims' i doubt truly blameless. However, the officers actions are definately shocking. Seems to be two camps here : 1) Most look at the video and see no reason for the police officer (who had a gun so would be highly trained to control his emotions) to stamp on the guys head and then kick it He was on the floor, tasered, and showing no threat at that point. Then he seemed to be using pepper spray quite liberally too. He may well have lost control of his emotions and took it too far, but he should be trained not to do that. Again, we would need to see what happened in the videos not shown to see what level of violence the 'victims' may have dished out themselves. 2) Most agree the officers actions were wrong, but are racist so don't want to say anything negative towards the officer. The point being they don't mind the violence now, until they are innocently standing someplace and get attacked by those who are meant to protect us.

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Thai's on the ground love his right wing views. He was the only Thai minister who dared speak out against foreigners not wearing mask and flouting rules during covid. If he takes on an anti immigrant rant he will be loved by Thais.

Does that mean the red black smoking pumping diesel polluting busses are here to stay ?

China took over Thailand ages ago. It's a part of the United States of China now. Srettha removing all visa restrictions for them was the final hurdle.

He is the worst PM Thailand has ever had. - Done nothing of note other than licking the edges of the horrendous pollution problem that Thailand has - a problem that leaves many cities like Chiang Mai as a national embarassment as being the most polluted city on the planet for a few months. It will be the same again next year. - Opening up the borders to mass tourism is an ecological disaster. He is going to ruin the beautiful Thai experience with his horrific plan to let in every man and his dog. Despite tourism numbers up revenue is down - a direct result of him wanting cheap mass tourism, as opposed to cleaning up the industry and attracting quality. An enviromental disaster that will see local Thai's face many of the problems that Europeans and Japanese are facing with mass tourism. - Not putting any safe guards to protect local Thais from his horrific plan to allow people to essentially now live in Thailand with his new visas. - No foreign policy of note. Nothing to tackle the growing trade deficit with China. Appeasing war monger Putin by letting draft dodging Russians live and hide in Thailand. - An economy doing poorly. No attempt to diversify the economy like Vietnam and the Phillpines has. It is addicted to mass Cheap tourism. - Emabarassing claims he can make Thailand a hub of this and that. Still waiting for a single hub. He wanted F1, he's getting F3 which no one watches. - Tackling inequality in Thai society? Nothing. Education? Nothing. He should be the minister of tourism. Not a PM. He's been a complete disgrace.

The era of mass tourism with wall to wall tourists squashed together is here. Well done Srettha.

Who would ever have guessed that PM's panic stricken decision to allow Chinese to enter without any restrictions would see mass criminal activity. I for one am absolutely shaken to the chore and so surprised. Infact i am so shocked i am suprised by my shock state. No one could EVER have forseen this. Shocking that the Chinese would take advantage of a state that is mass filled with tourists. Just can't believe it. Go Srettha.

Embarassing for the PM Stretta.

Tourism numbers at almost record highs, yet revenue down. Their policies are attracting CHEAP tourists. What happened to the quality tourism reset?

When China proposed the bullet train route into Thailand, you can imagine naive leaders delighted at the proposals, and China paying for it too. Little did they know the true motives is to push cheap crap into Thailand. Not the other way round.

We always assumed the General wasn't a politician, hence why nothing was done regarding the pollution. But this guy has no excuses. As someone who travels around Europe ALOT, used to clean air, a billionaire, for him to do LITERALLY NOTHING TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE REGARDING POLLUTION (especially in Chiang Mai which is ranked as the most polluted city in the world for a few months) is scandalous. You wonder why then a billionaire would be in this game for if it isn't to improve the lives of Thai people ?

Any foreign policy success he can claim ?

Utter nonsense. The UK tried to keep opening up, ended up going into massive lock downs due to hospitals being over run. Go look at the official figures. Thailand by and large for a few months here and there remained open domestically at least. In the UK you were only allowed one hour of exercise a day because the countries health system would have collapsed. What would this guy have done ? Opened up because of his property empire ?

The high speed trains into Thailand from China were not built to be a joint exercise in trade between the two countries. They are designed to flood cheap products from China into Thailand. Not the other way round. The trade deficit with China will continue to widen. China have done this to all most countries nearby.