Illegal tour guide arrested after video of him threatening tourists in Pattaya goes viral

[rooster59]

Illegal tour guide arrested after video of him threatening tourists in Pattaya goes viral

 

 

Police have arrested a Chinese man after a clip of showing a tour guide threatening Chinese tourists in Pattaya was shared on social media.

 

Tourist police chief Surachet Hakpal announced the arrest of Mr Li Hai who was filmed threatening the group of Chinese tourists in Pattaya after they failed to buy goods from a shop.

 

Mr Hai then demanded money from the group and when they refused he said they would not be allowed to use the bus again the next day.

 

The incident which occured on the May 9th resulted in the group leaving Thailand and flying back to China the same day.

 

 

Footage of the incident was then picked up by Chinese media with the clip eventually being viewed more than three million times.

 

The group had bought a tour to travel to Bangkok, Rayong, Pattaya and Chonburi from a Chinese-Thai tour company called TYT.

 

The clip resulted in many negative comments from people in China about tour guides in Thailand, with many people posting saying it was best to avoid the guides altogether.

 

Mr Hai has been charged with working as an illegal tour guide, while representatives of the TYT company face charges of damaging the image of tourism in Thailand.

 

Source: Tourist Police

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-05-13

[hansnl]

A Chinese threatening Chinese?

Trying to get some extra squeeze?

Oh dear!

But how can that be a negative for Thailand?

[Sakeopete]

TYT charged with telling the truth about the Thai tourism industry. 

[eddie61]

I do hope it discourages these tours. Pattaya is full to capacity allready

[Emster23]

Lock this POS up. Put yourself in Chinese tourists place "Hey honey, let's go see Thailand, it should be fun getaway" and then get here and are threatened by the tour you paid for? Outrageous

[petermik]

7 hours ago, eddie61 said:

I do hope it discourages these tours. Pattaya is full to capacity allready

More chance of snow covering the beach I,m afraid............

[meinphuket]

Chinese screwing over Chinese. They said its best avoiding tourist guides? Then you will have a shock; you will have to pay for proper tours, not your freebie zero dollar tours !

[mok199]

I am beginning to wonder is ANY good has come out of this budget tour Chinese invasion..the thais have managed to ,''yet again '' screw up..this new tourists sensation has been a disaster from the beginning,only bringing chaos and damaged beaches traffic  congestion and filthy tour buses  to Thailand..and don't blame the chinese ,they just follow the tour guide...thais own this mismanaged nightmare...

[wvavin]

Very likely this guy is not going to enjoy the 500 baht fine.

[Darcula]

They're going to throw the book at them. Threating tourists in Pattaya is an occupation prohibited for foreigners.

[Pattaya28]

Well that ""hi-quality"" video explains everything.

[connda]

Obviously the Chinese tourists are routinely victimized by scams specifically targeted at their demographics.  Sad!

Edited May 13, 2018 by connda

[fullcave]

Translation? 

[Srikcir]

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Police have arrested a Chinese man after a clip of showing a tour guide threatening Chinese tourists in Pattaya was shared on social media.

Viewed more than three million times.

RTP takes action. If the video was never made and published, what then - police remain clueless?

This is a fundamental failure by Thai authorities to detect illegal tour guides who operate within Thailand.

Thailand and China governments were to cooperate with such matters in a MOU. Obviously, the Chinese government was just as negligent - as if it really cared.

Edited May 13, 2018 by Srikcir
verb

[anon789561]

46 minutes ago, mok199 said:

I am beginning to wonder is ANY good has come out of this budget tour Chinese invasion..the thais have managed to ,''yet again '' screw up..this new tourists sensation has been a disaster from the beginning,only bringing chaos and damaged beaches traffic  congestion and filthy tour buses  to Thailand..and don't blame the chinese ,they just follow the tour guide...thais own this mismanaged nightmare...

i feel sorry for the decent chinese tourists too. i was in central groove at greyhound having dinner last week and i'd say half the customers were young chinese tourists, all with loads of bags of designer shopping they'd just bought and all very polite, almost a different breed to the tour bus mobs which thankfully i rarely have to experience because of where i live. 

[lkv]

3 minutes ago, Happy enough said:

i feel sorry for the decent chinese tourists too. i was in central groove at greyhound having dinner last week and i'd say half the customers were young chinese tourists, all with loads of bags of designer shopping they'd just bought and all very polite, almost a different breed to the tour bus mobs which thankfully i rarely have to experience because of where i live. 

The majority are on low cost budgets. Thailand does not attract the cream of the cream. Sure, you'll see some in CentralWorld as well eating at Groove, but the reality is you'll see many more having dinner at 7-11.

 

 

[quandow]

23 minutes ago, fullcave said:

Translation? 

I didn't understand a single word yet got the full meaning.

[anon789561]

8 minutes ago, lkv said:

The majority are on low cost budgets. Thailand does not attract the cream of the cream. Sure, you'll see some in CentralWorld as well eating at Groove, but the reality is you'll see many more having dinner at 7-11.

 

 

yeah but there's still lots of them here. places like the duty free shopping mall in sathorn is usually packed with them, difference is those guys are buying, often in bulk and like i said seem to be much more polite than their tour bus countrymen 

** sure no where near as many as the tour bus lemmings but i think the number of 'decent' chinese tourists is gradually increasing but they'll never be at the kind of numbers those tours bring in. that's impossible

Edited May 13, 2018 by Happy enough
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[Golden Triangle]

Tsk tsk, there goes Thailand's & Pattaya's unblemished image straight down the pan.........

[lkv]

9 minutes ago, Happy enough said:

yeah but there's still lots of them here. places like the duty free shopping mall in sathorn is usually packed with them, difference is those guys are buying, often in bulk and like i said seem to be much more polite than their tour bus countrymen 

Of course, the wealthier demographic of any country is more educated and behaves in a totally different way than the peasants. This is not limited to China. All I was saying was, since Thailand's largest number of tourists anually is Chinese (about 9 million), the large majority are not high net worth, less educated, and behaving accordingly.

 

I don't understand why Thai people are so shocked, they dreamed the cream of the cream will be coming. Those generally go to Canada, Australia, etc. But yes, some upper middle class might end up in Thailand as well ?

Edited May 13, 2018 by lkv

[Henrik Andersen]

Zero baht tourists so poor they need take illegal tours 

Good for Thailand 

[andersonat]

Criminal Law in Thailand: The Thailand Penal Code is the codified system of law, or body of laws concerning crimes and offenses against 'the public' (including the Kingdom of Thailand, the King and certain members of the royal family) and or against another person and prescribing a penalty for the one who violates it.

 - I've had a look through the Code, but I couldn't find anything about a law concerning "damaging the image of tourism in Thailand".

Can someone provide any information about this Law ?

Edited May 13, 2018 by andersonat

[mark01]

This is just the start of things to come.

[Bangkok Barry]

37 minutes ago, lkv said:

The majority are on low cost budgets. Thailand does not attract the cream of the cream. Sure, you'll see some in CentralWorld as well eating at Groove, but the reality is you'll see many more having dinner at 7-11.

 

 

 

Indeed. Thailand gets what it deserves, which is bottom of the barrel. I've many times witnessed Chinese tourists in Dubai, who are quiet and polite and light years from the rabble that Thailand attracts. Perhaps the Thai authorities might like to address why they mostly attract only the poorest quality people.

[Just Weird]

3 hours ago, hansnl said:

A Chinese threatening Chinese?

Trying to get some extra squeeze?

Oh dear!

But how can that be a negative for Thailand?

How?..it happened in Thailand!

[Just Weird]

51 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

Viewed more than three million times.

RTP takes action. If the video was never made and published, what then - police remain clueless?

This is a fundamental failure by Thai authorities to detect illegal tour guides who operate within Thailand.

Thailand and China governments were to cooperate with such matters in a MOU. Obviously, the Chinese government was just as negligent - as if it really cared.

You seriously think that the RTP are blessed with ESP and are able to know about incidents that are not reported to them?

[Sprigger]

They buy the tour then pay nothing into the Thai restaurants or bars. They disrupt other guests at hotels, slamming doors a shouting at all hours day and night. The ones who occasionally use the swimming pools never go near the shower, and worst of all they are constantly spitting everywhere. Just social pigs.

[Srikcir]

1 hour ago, lkv said:

Those generally go to

Most anywhere else than Asia except for Japan.

https://list.juwai.com/news/2016/03/top-10-places-rich-chinese-are-visiting-in-2016

 

[Srikcir]

57 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

You seriously think that the RTP are blessed with ESP and are able to know about incidents that are not reported to them?

Where do I refer to ESP?

Ever hear of the term DETECTive?

[Classic Ray]

I remember going on a tour of China in 1999, very expensive ( I was sponsored) quasi-governmental. Two of the three guides were completely mercenary and many of our official visits were either deleted or hijacked with diversions to factories/shops. We took the tour over in the end and went where we wanted to go, which caused a lot of consternation. Didn’t seem much like a Communist society, best capitalists I’ve ever seen.

 

Seems the practice is still current and widespread in Thailand. 

 

I also used to live next to a crocodile leather factory in Chiang Mai that had scores of Chinese tour buses every day, it’s obviously a lucrative trade.