New report ranks Thailand as the world’s riskiest holiday destination

[chrisinth]

15 hours ago, KiwiKiwi said:

 

Ohh, didn't come up with the result you wnted? I'd write and complain if I were you. Of course you'd have to write in English, so if you're a Thai I suppose that will knock you out in round 1. If you're an American, you might get to round 2 depending on if you're a Trump voter...

There are a lot of percentages in that report but no numbers about claims. And when they say it is data from 2017 they used, was this against all insurance companies or just their own?

 

I agree with Berkshire that this is just another BS survey, but if you are willing to accept without question a British tabloid article as a benchmark, based on only percentages, rock on......................

[RichardColeman]

2017 ? T.A.T. will claim that this is based on old information and it's better now.

[canuckamuck]

7 minutes ago, Get Real said:

I guess there must be something with the general mentallity of the visitors from the 3 countries mentioned, becuase it can´t be anything wrong with Thailand, right? 

In other news Thailand is the most popular destination for careless and accident prone people.

The Society for the careless, lazy, unconcerned, and total Zoidbergs, CLUTZ for short, has endorsed Thailand for the fifth year in a row, stating that the decision was based on the fact that someone said their friend had a good time in Thailand 15 years ago and they were to lazy to find out whether or not this was true.

[KhunBENQ]

Click baiting headline and a waste of time.

Some insurance math about emergency medical expenses, damaged luggage, flight cancellations.

Under the headline I expected road deaths/accidents, robbery, assault whatever but not damaged luggage.

What a BS.

 

 

Edited June 20, 2018 by KhunBENQ

[mikebell]

Road traffic accidents; marauding gangs of ladyboys; corrupt police on the take; hospitals more concerned about profits than patient care; illegal taxi-drivers; pavement-riding motorbike taxi drivers; packs of rabid soi dogs; oh and a Government that stifles free speech.  I can't understand why any tourists ever come here.

Edited June 20, 2018 by mikebell
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[inThailand]

1 minute ago, mikebell said:

Road traffic accidents; marauding gangs of ladyboys; corrupt police on the take; hospitals more concerned about profits than patient care; illegal taxi-drivers; pavement-riding motorbike taxi drivers; packs of rabid soi dogs; oh and a Government that stifles free speech.  I can't understand why any tourists ever come here.

I guess cheap p.... trumps all! 

[sammieuk1]

Foreigners should banned from all elevated living positions to mitigate the risk to the fragile Thai reputation.

[mok199]

definitely Risqué.

[AlQaholic]

Should make a good profit out of this, sell fake travel insurance at airport arrivals.....

[stanleycoin]

29 minutes ago, mikebell said:

Road traffic accidents; marauding gangs of ladyboys; corrupt police on the take; hospitals more concerned about profits than patient care; illegal taxi-drivers; pavement-riding motorbike taxi drivers; packs of rabid soi dogs; oh and a Government that stifles free speech.  I can't understand why any tourists ever come here.

sex with prostitutes 

( come on you lot, no pork pies ) 

Edited June 20, 2018 by stanleycoin

[Deli]

Germany more dangerous than Brazil... makes me laugh and trash the report

[BKKBike09]

What a load of old sh#te. Misleading stats cobbled together by an insurance company and regurgitated in a sh#te red top rag as 'news'.

 

The 'danger' is that tourists can come here and do stuff they'd be unable to do back in UK, without consequence, until things go wrong. Want to drink 10 pints and ride a motorbike wearing flip flops and no helmet day after day? Go right ahead. Try doing that in the UK.

 

And let's not forget ...

 

 

[mentalcolonization]

Those Brits need to apologize . From the news it shows that the brits are a perfect scam artists pulling out insurance frauds. Now that Thailand has been able to identify them , they want to make a story 55555. 

[Peterw42]

The OP should read

new-report-ranks-thailand-as-the-Brits most visited-holiday-destination, and Therefore results in the most insurance claims.

The word risk is insurance company risk, not tourist risk. Lots of brits to Thailand equals lots of policies for thailand equals lots of claims, its called statistics.

If lots of Brits go to Iceland for holidays and take out insurance, Iceland would be top of the list.

[TheFishman1]

Gosh Thailand is number 1 in many things TIT

[peterb17]

Endsleigh ( when I was at university) was the insurance company that was totally geared towards students / back packing etc .

So as usual this sort of report is nonsense - it’s saying Thailand is the most dangerous place for its particular clientele- not surprising as this age group tends to take more risks. 

 

I might be wrong of course. Is Thailand still the most dangerous place for the Brits  staying in their pleasant 5* resorts - not sure . 

[transam]

16 hours ago, colinneil said:

Well Prayut and his crowd are always spouting about Thailand is number 1, so they should be delighted with this news.

Coupled with the No.1 in road carnage the Gov is due for a big booze up....

[grollies]

15 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

That's a horrible, meaningless methodology that the insurance company in the OP is using to judge riskyness.

 

You can't judge that based on simply the number or total cost of claims from different places, because the volume of Brits going to different places is going to be more or less depending on the place. And that's going to skew the claim and claim cost numbers.

 

The only fair way to judge riskyness would be to look at the claims numbers or claims costs AS A PERCENTAGE of travelers to that destination. As in, there were more claims per 1000 travelers to Thailand than to any other holiday destination. Or the average cost of a claim for claims filed from Thailand was higher (which it presumably would not be) than from any other holiday destination.

 

It only took 20 posts for someone to point out the obvious flaw in the reporting the insurance company's conclusion.

 

Unfortunately Endsleigh spokeswoman then compounded the error thus:

 

''Speaking to the Daily Mirror, Julia Alpan, head of marketing at Endsleigh, said: "Thailand is a popular destination for holidaymakers and backpackers, so it’s no surprise to see it revealed as the most dangerous location in the world to visit.''

 

Doh, even she doesn't get it.

Edited June 20, 2018 by grollies

[blazes]

9 minutes ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

Yeh, like be safe using a taxi, public transportation or crossing the road. 

 

Yeah, that's right: putting aside all the jokiness that fills this thread, it remains a fact that crossing  a road in Thailand is more risky behaviour than having unprotected sex.

[stanleycoin]

11 minutes ago, mentalcolonization said:

Those Brits need to apologize . From the news it shows that the brits are a perfect scam artists pulling out insurance frauds. Now that Thailand has been able to identify them , they want to make a story 55555. 

Yes but, no, but yes.

It's more the fire ( Thailand ) calling the kettle black, syndrome.

Edited June 20, 2018 by stanleycoin

[grollies]

3 minutes ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

Millions more Britons go to Spain, Portugal and France, in fact over 10x more Britons visit Spain than visit Thailand yet there are far fewer insurance claims.

 

Of course you are selectively ignoring the British FCO and a myriad of other sources that claim Thailand is the most dangerous tourism destination for Britons.

 

The fact that consular services in Australia and Sweden have Thailand as the most dangerous tourism destination for their citizens speaks volumes. 

 

Of course they must all be wrong and Thailand is really safe. 

 

 

 

 

I take it your next holiday destination is somewhere like Afghanistan? After all it's not even in the top 10.

[gwynt]

17 hours ago, colinneil said:

Well Prayut and his crowd are always spouting about Thailand is number 1, so they should be delighted with this news.

So that's two number one spots.

Worse drivers and now danger to tourists. ?

[grollies]

1 minute ago, blazes said:

 

Yeah, that's right: putting aside all the jokiness that fills this thread, it remains a fact that crossing  a road in Thailand is more risky behaviour than having unprotected sex.

Where do you get that particular fact from?

[grollies]

Unless it's unprotected sex with one's wife......then you'd be correct.

[transam]

2 minutes ago, blazes said:

 

Yeah, that's right: putting aside all the jokiness that fills this thread, it remains a fact that crossing  a road in Thailand is more risky behaviour than having unprotected sex.

Well yes, a zebra crossing in LOS is for drivers to line up their target...?

[grollies]

Obviously Endsleigh didn't insure the two British tourists kidnapped in DRC last month.

 

According to press reports only a few dozen tourists visit that particular national park each year so the chances are, on balance, that the DRC is more risky to visit than Thailand.

 

I bet those two also lost their luggage, passports, had medical and repatriation expenses.

[dickjones2018]

good most deaths are suicides...for the police at least, case closed, we can go to the bar now

[mok199]

If they ladyboys don't get you,the Bacteria on the sand and flinstone style sewage should do it,but,if you are strong enough to survive that, take a trip on one of our motorways...welcomt to ''the land of smiles''

Edited June 20, 2018 by mok199
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[SCOTT FITZGERSLD]

Truth is that new risks are being added to the tourist list in thailand all the time..

One new risk  is being detained for possesion of  counterfeit money notes, even in small amount.

 

in a recent case, a tourist in koh samui was arrested cause a money exchange told

him that 300 USD notes he gave them are fake notes.

 

The police arrested him for weeks , demanding he will admit that he brought those fake notes with him,

he said he did not know they are fake and he got them from an exchange in his country.

It is a very brutal treatment of a tourist who is only a suspect, and not in a serious crime.

it could happan to anyone. how can you tell few fakes note from  thousands of notes

you might be carrying with you?

and add to that recent news about thailand as a growing source of counterfeit USD notes (bangkok post),

and you'll get one more risk to worry about while in thailand.

[Peterw42]

36 minutes ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

Millions more Britons go to Spain, Portugal and France, in fact over 10x more Britons visit Spain than visit Thailand yet there are far fewer insurance claims.

 

Of course you are selectively ignoring the British FCO and a myriad of other sources that claim Thailand is the most dangerous tourism destination for Britons.

 

The fact that consular services in Australia and Sweden have Thailand as the most dangerous tourism destination for their citizens speaks volumes. 

 

Of course they must all be wrong and Thailand is really safe. 

 

 

 

 

Depends what the insurance claims are, lost wallet, doctors visit for upset stomach. Given the demographic of depressed alcoholic sex-pats, independent travellers and beg-packers, they probably do make more claims than tourists on a package tour to Majorca.

The OP is about more insurance claims, including lost luggage and missed flights. 

The OP says nothing about more claims for serious assault, kidnapping, robbery or even car accidents.

 

The insurance companies are saying its riskier (for them) because of more claims, Those claims could be a doctors visit for an upset stomach or getting drunk and leaving your golf clubs in the airport bar.

Edited June 20, 2018 by Peterw42