Can Thailand lure the Chinese back?

[stanleycoin]

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Can Thailand lure the Chinese back?

Hope not, the less the better. 

[Lupatria]

17 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

Exactly my thought. Lure them or bait them... but by no means try attract them or entice them back to the country. 

Talking about bait. There is endless supply with millions of stray dogs. The TAT has just to come up with an attractive "Gourmet Tour for dog lovers". This will also be a great business opportunity for the local quacks, selling 'herbal medicine' to prevent and cure rabies.

Edited October 17, 2018 by Lupatria

[simoh1490]

58 minutes ago, HAKAPALITA said:

Read the Topic, its about Thailand. As for the Chins here it tends to be a Class thing. A Benidorm/ Pataya type Holiday Maker isnt well suited to Saint Moritz generally.Those who have money and well travelled fit politely in un noticed , just like Old Brits do.

you said the Chinese don't spend money in Thailand, I gave you stats to show they do - then you say you don't need stats from TAT (actually you said TOT but I can't imagine what the telephone company has to do with it) so I gave you global stats, now you say this is about Thailand......are you a woman by any chance!

Edited October 17, 2018 by simoh1490

[Cereal]

17 hours ago, Dave67 said:

Make shitting in the street legal they will be back in droves

They start training them young in China.

[Pember]

Please please please don't....????

[HAKAPALITA]

1 hour ago, simoh1490 said:

you said the Chinese don't spend money in Thailand, I gave you stats to show they do - then you say you don't need stats from TAT (actually you said TOT but I can't imagine what the telephone company has to do with it) so I gave you global stats, now you say this is about Thailand......are you a woman by any chance!

No im a Shoolscreatcher

[hansnl]

16 hours ago, DrTuner said:

Butbut... weren't these the high spending quality tourists?

Oops!

[Sydebolle]

• clear up the mess left behind by these Chinese
• teach Khon Thai not to screw each and every non-Thai
• focus on Caucasian tourism from the West as by FAR much better paying, albeit requiring better service than stale cold overpriced food
• clear up your visa structure and facilitate long-term tourism (i.e. from Europe/US) with a four months visa (as quite a few escape the cold winter) 
• teach Khon Thai English NOW, and let the Thai kids (anyhow glued to the television) watch cartoons in the original language as they will be fluent in English and Japanese by the tender age of 10

[Burma Bill]

16 hours ago, HAKAPALITA said:

They dont spend much, 1 coke and 3 richer people and share it from what ive seen...The Other 17 in the tour pass round a bottle of water.

Yes indeed, it is a common sight at the airports to see the Chinese queuing to fill up their water bottles from the "free" dispensers!

[Charlesed]

That's actually good news! 

[Curmudgeon1]

Thailand needs to reset...the tourists masses are destroying faster than can be repaired.

Take a couple of years,rebuild,and control the numbers while increasing the pricing based on a model that's sustainable. Imo

[HAKAPALITA]

33 minutes ago, Curmudgeon1 said:

Thailand needs to reset...the tourists masses are destroying faster than can be repaired.

Take a couple of years,rebuild,and control the numbers while increasing the pricing based on a model that's sustainable. Imo

Google Thailand Tourist Authority, go to bottom of page n clik whats new. Nothing that would interest even a Trappist Monk. 

[khunPer]

And the Western tourist had also decreased – probably for a number of reasons including European exchange rates that are giving less bath for the home country's currency – however, looking at the bright side of life, a number of my European friends complained that there are too many Chinese tourists in Thailand, so perhaps they'll come back now...????

 

By the way, the other day I noticed on my old photos from my first visit to Thailand in 1987 that at Grand Palace's temple area there were two monks and my little family-group of five; on the photos from my latest visit I can hardly see the temple buildings for mainly Chinese tourists...????

[Ulic]

In truth a tricky question. People have very short memories so I don't expect the Chinese downturn to last long. The tourists will book wherever the charter tour companies operate tours too. As they have things well organized here with "zero baht" tours and money made on kickbacks I don't think things will change. That said, if the tour companies see opportunities to make money in Cambodia/Savannakhet or Vietnam they could well leave and never come back. It all depends on the business environment that allows them to make the most money. With the crackdown on Chinese tour guides, and Chinese business owned through proxies the tour companies may never return once set up to another destination. We shall see what comes to pass.

[DrTuner]

49 minutes ago, Ulic said:

With the crackdown on Chinese tour guides, and Chinese business owned through proxies the tour companies may never return once set up to another destination. 

If they were to really crack down on the Chinese operating in Thai company disguise and repatriating all profits back to China, I'd guess 95% of the tourism would be gone in a day.

[BEngBKK]

Chinese tourists ????

Are this the people that earlier was called 0$ tourists that we now kiss ass

[marcusarelus]

5 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

If they were to really crack down on the Chinese operating in Thai company disguise and repatriating all profits back to China, I'd guess 95% of the tourism would be gone in a day.

I guess buying all those hotels doesn't count?  I thought the rich Chinese were trying to get money out of China not bring it in.  Maybe I have been misinformed. 

[DrTuner]

1 hour ago, marcusarelus said:

I thought the rich Chinese were trying to get money out of China not bring it in. 

My bad, I meant Chinese owned overseas accounts.

[the guest]

The word "lure" invokes images of the TAT lurking in a bush somewhere, ready to strike at their unfortunate victims ... CHINESE TOURISTS!

[nbm47]

As I said before in a similar post, Chinese like to gamble for fun. Not allowed in Thailand, so their loss

is Cambodia's gain. Millions visiting Sanoukville now with all the Chinese owned casinos, ask anyone who lives there that's not Chinese of course.

Edited October 17, 2018 by nbm47
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[zzaa09]

I'm imagining what would would be if the Yuan was an official firmed fixture within the International Monetary System. 

You people would be in a real world of hurt. The angst and whinging towards traditional boogiemen might be moot. 

 

Beware the Yellow Peril.

Historic cycling.

[NickJ]

Forget the Chinese. It's India's turn at the tables now. 

[moe666]

On 10/16/2018 at 4:57 PM, CGW said:

There's a huge amount of understandable negativity towards Chinese tourists, they were bred and educated to be be peasant wage slaves for the most part, they had no say in this, just like most of us. Their education system has not prepared them to travel and mingle with people more fortunate than themselves, to be polite, it does show 

Most are good people who want to see a little of the world and escape from the places they have not been allowed to leave before, its only in very recent times they have been allowed to travel, for many its probably their first chance to breathe fresh air (in between cigarettes!) 

Truth be known, most would rather stay in China and travel therein, but it is prohibitively expensive for them, Thailand is far cheaper.

They are doing a great job of repatriating Chinese goods back to the homeland where they are not on sale, export only, that's why they load up on all the "tack" 

At heart, they are decent people, don't be so down on them 

 

You may have wanted to say they killed all of the people with education, and manners. People learned from farmers and the rest who survived, cannot expect anything better. The cultural revolutions had the desired affect.

[Johnnyngai]

On 10/16/2018 at 7:02 AM, toast1 said:

When I see Chinese in a restaurant or massage place I do not go in.

 

I have nothing against them personally (perhaps the usual idiots will start claiming racism)  but I do not want to listen to people shout at their phones, shout at each other, shout at the staff. 
 

Yesterday I had to tell a Chinese, shouting on her phone in a massage place, to shut up.

 

I have pushed them out of the way when they try to push in line, and shoved them out of the way when trying to get off an elevator and told them to be quiet when shouting in a restaurant at their phones (apparently they need to do this to be heard).

 

I'm sure this is OK in their country and just a cultural thing but I don't want to be around it.

 

 

Thanks for educating the cavemen for the rest of us. 

[toast1]

I have been to many Corbynite ex-communist countries and seen the same boorish, loud, rude and uncultured behaviour. In a state where wearing glasses, reading a book or talking quietly can get you sent to a slave camp to die, it pays to be uncouth.

 

One may say this can be seen today in the West where communist affiliated political groups often become very violent in public or attack individuals who disagree with them or attempt do destroy them,  or simply align themselves with extremist religious groups.

 

 

 

[Oziex1]

46 minutes ago, toast1 said:

I have been to many Corbynite ex-communist countries and seen the same boorish, loud, rude and uncultured behaviour. In a state where wearing glasses, reading a book or talking quietly can get you sent to a slave camp to die, it pays to be uncouth.

 

One may say this can be seen today in the West where communist affiliated political groups often become very violent in public or attack individuals who disagree with them or attempt do destroy them,  or simply align themselves with extremist religious groups.

 

 

 

Wow, how's life in your icy cold war world.

[Sonhia]

It comes as no surprise, figures are declining. 

 

I was in Bangkok the other day, taking a break, but my experience as a tourist was an unpleasant one. 

 

Waitresses demanding tips!

 

Thais pushing in front, especially at 7/11 stores.

 

Hotel staff plus taxi drivers, unhelpful, rude, with poor communication plus  customer service skills, plus negative attitudes

Health and safety issues too!

 

Littered, dirty, unsafe pedestrian paths and streets, with constant demand for money from beggars, street vendors, bar girls, massage parlour workers and so on...

 

I've found the general attitude to be very negative, and as a foreigner, racist, I feel I'm being looked down at.

 

[RotBenz8888]

If I was Chinese I would stay home. Foreigners are so loud and impolite.

[zzaa09]

31 minutes ago, RotBenz8888 said:

If I was Chinese I would stay home. Foreigners are so loud and impolite.

In particular, those blue-eyed devil type. 

Well famed for their disconnected characters.

[mikebell]

Well there were a lot of coaches holding up the traffic last night in Pattaya.  The Walking Street end of Pattaya Tai by the temple seems a popular pick-up/drop-off point making turning into Second road problematic.