DonniePeverley

Because in Thailand they are trying to find themselves mannnnnnn dudeeeee

Yawn. Britiain along with France have nuclear arms. No one is going anywhere near them ... unless they want mutual destruction also.

Tourism tourism EVERYTHING tourism - this is basically a tourist state now. A Population of 60 million being a tourist state is crazy

They do get alot of false claims - someone just dropping their wallet will say it was stolen without evidence, only to be later found in their hotel room etc I can imagine it can be quite tiring.

What's the law here regarding cannabis use. I get you can buy it, but can you just smoke it openly anywhere you want ? I am sick and tired to the chore of tourists just smoking it around everywhere. I'm walking with family, and you get these morons standing on a pavement just exhaling it of their mouths. Yeah we get it you hip, you are on holiday, but have some respect. Bad enough having to inhale black diesel smoke from those red public busses, then have to walk past these tourists. Is there no enforcement here on smoking marijuana in public ?

It's going to have no effect on tourism.

2024 tourism statisitics INDIA - 13 MILLION VISITORS - income generated from international tourism 38 BILLION (without domestic tourism income) Thailand 35 MILLION VISITORS - income generated from international tourism 48 BILLION (however it is not known if Thailand adds domestic tourism to this total) Tell me Thailand isn't just allowing cheap visitors to wreck this place for hardly much net increase revenue. India also has a soul destroying visa entry requriements to even countries like UK, USA. Thailand's borders are open to the world. THERE IS NO NEED FOR CHEAP MASS TOURISM. Thailand is turning away quality tourists.

You can't have these harsh enviromental measures that punishes economies - albeit they are well intended - whilst the rest of the world ignores them (or moves very slowly with them). Either the world moves together or you can't punish yourselves. The EU was once level economically with the US, but is now miles behind.

Where is this utopia in Thailand, with low tourists, but still enough culture, entertainment, amenities, infrustructure around to enjoy.

I went to Pai it was packed out too. Went to Chiang Mai too, it too was packed out. What's left ?

Not just Phuket. Go Koh Samui .. boats are packed heading there. The place is crazy packed. Thailand needs to ban hostels. This is the mecca of cheap tourists.

Who offered the 500,000 ? That's horrific.

They appear to be targetting instaed Benidorm British crowd, indian sex pests, and draft dodging Russians. The thought of any retireee moving to Phuket with all the mayhem going on there is for the birds, or crazy retirees who haven't thought about everything fully. The tourist policy, with open visas, is ironically turning away quality tourists.

Where is the utopia where you can have amenities but without the Benidorm Brits ?

It's not just the sheer number of tourists, but the quality of the tourists. I have never met horrific people like this in my life. It's like you take the worst set of Arabs, the worst set of Indians, draft dodging Russians, and the Benidorm Brits and bring them here to create chaos.

How can you have a wealth fund when you have so much debt ?

Nothing to do with racism. It's to do with managing your countries ability to absorb so many tourists. Thailand's infrustructure cannot cope, and allowing so many people to enter at one time (especially during peak seasons) dilutes local culture to the point it is erased. Throw into that people staying here longer and you are effectively over powering Thailand and it's people. I do understand Thailand wanting to have diplomatic ties to China, and allowing visa free access - but the cost is a huge implosing in crime. The one that makes no sense is the visa removal for India. India does not even let Thai people enter their country without a visa. How can essentially all of Africa require Indians to have a visa, but in Thailand they can just walk in ? That's how crazy it is, no one else has such a generous visa policy as Thailand, and it is this that is creating the chaos.

Where's the freedom of speech in Russia ? He never mentions that. Didn't he sue Bill Maher too for something he said, which was a joke. Where was the freedom of speech there? Lets face it ... all this talk of wanting 'freedom of speech' is just another way of saying 'we want to be racist openly'.

That's one of the issues. The soft policing approach, terrified to upset tourists. It's ruining life for those who don't get drunk and look for violence, or break the law.

Looks like the Benidorm British crowd. Influenced by social media to come to Thailand instead of fighting in Benidorm or Magaluf.

Feel for those who bought condos and moved here. Now unable to sell those condos. Most just getting offers to rent out only. This place is ghastly now. Thanks Sretta

The numbers are true. What is more misleading is that these are cheap tourists from cheap countries with low GDP's. Despite China's power in the world, the average GDP per person is still very low. India's GDP per person is even lower than Thailands.

How much more tourism do they need to boost ? We are already seeing Phuket being descimated by unruly behaviour, and now they want to add fuel to it. Horrific.

Thai logic ... revenue going down from tourism. So lets just let more people enter to makeup for the shortfall. No attempts to clean up the image or cut out corruption, clean the image up, etc