Tourists vs Photographers Dispute at Wat Arun

No wonder tourists numbres are dwindling in Thailand. There is just no more respect towards the foreigners who bring in money.

I go to a wat near Korat once every year. I only do that to keep her indoors happy as 2 of her brothers are monks. Ironically I used to get on the grog with them before they both decided to go to Buddha. Buddhism like all other religions doesn't do a thing for me especially with Donald Trump a self declared believer in God. That's enough for me to be a total abstainer from the garbage they indoctrinate people with. Like walking across the water and f**cking up the fishing.

Anyone like to hazard a guess at potentially why these scumbags are not being moved on by the police? 😂

Just now, Sigmund said:

No wonder tourists numbres are dwindling in Thailand. There is just no more respect towards the foreigners who bring in money.

tourist numbers could hardly be described as dwindling, they are slightly down on last year, mainly chinese, however this reduction has almost been offset be increasing numbers of tourists from europe, uk, india and russia

These photographers are usually photographing locals, they're combined with the costume stores nearby too.

To tell them to try and be responsible and respectful to others is never going to work. They need to get that perfect shot, and can't wait ten minutes for tourists to stop walking past, so they often tell them to wait.

Just now, Sigmund said:

No wonder tourists numbres are dwindling in Thailand. There is just no more respect towards the foreigners who bring in money.

Really? Your reasoning reeds more like an opportunity to express a personal sentiment, than a reflection of reality.

The tourists who bring in the money are the people who pay for the additional services like photography. These tourists support the locals who work as the photographers, and the photographers pay fees to the Wat to stake out working access. The tourists paying the photographers believe that the others should be respectful to their photo shoot. The photographers and their enablers would not be doing this unless there was money to be made. Overall, it's the wat administration that should be accountable for this, and I doubt they care since they know the tourists will still come.

6 hours ago, Sigmund said:

No wonder tourists numbres are dwindling in Thailand. There is just no more respect towards the foreigners who bring in money.

Just cash cows to be herded around and milked!