Thailand looks to India for new wave of high spending senior citizen tourists

[Snow Leopard]

5 minutes ago, micmichd said:

Don't get mistaken. In India there's a new middle-class emerging, like in most ASEAN countries. 

100% correct. But that doesn't change the culture. Indians invented Zero, Nil, Nothing. ????

[MisterPenguin]

11 minutes ago, micmichd said:

Don't get mistaken. In India there's a new middle-class emerging, like in most ASEAN countries. 

Fuelled by corruption and dishonesty, also like in most ASEAN countries. They ought to fit right in.

 

 

[Mavideol]

14 hours ago, fforest1 said:

Thailand had loads of high spending westerners for decades until they decided to trade them in for millions of zero dollar Chinese tourist.. 

they traded/replaced us with cheap charlies...

[MisterPenguin]

6 minutes ago, Snow Leopard said:

100% correct. But that doesn't change the culture. Indians invented Zero, Nil, Nothing. ????

 

Mostly true, there have been some very smart scientists hailing and/or mathematicians from India. Not very many though...

 

[Spidey]

1 hour ago, RoadWarrior371 said:

In the US, we call it 'Bundling'........

In the UK it's known as "all inclusive" and is now the most popular type of holiday.

[micmichd]

6 minutes ago, Snow Leopard said:

100% correct. But that doesn't change the culture. Indians invented Zero, Nil, Nothing. ????

At least (or more than anything) Indians invented the binary Zero - without which there would be no IT at all. 

 

Sent from my IT device using Indian algebra p

[seancbk]

14 hours ago, fforest1 said:

Has any one seen the Rupee Baht rates?......1,000 Rupees gets you 430 Baht......There will be no mass India tourism till this improves... 

 

Who said anything about mass India tourism?  They are targeting wealthy Indians, of which there are many. 

The Casinos in Macau have been successfully advertising in India for a while now to attract Indians with lots of money to come to Macau for shopping, dining and of course gambling.   

 

[Snow Leopard]

2 minutes ago, Spidey said:

In the UK it's known as "all inclusive" and is now the most popular type of holiday.

That's because alcohol is included. For Brits its worth it. Not sure I would book "all inclusive" if I was an American. Might not get my monies worth on food alone. 

[ZAKY]

Remaining westerners are the ones that no choice as all their funds either locked in property or in wife’s otherwise many have already switched to neighbouring countries  for their hospitality and welcomming nature which are no more here. Nobody who is wealthy spending his own money here likes to be thrown in the same basket and get the humiliation of being checked openly in public by the immigration police in the same way as those who are wanted for overstaying. 

[MisterPenguin]

2 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

they traded/replaced us with cheap charlies...

Thailand, as a SE Asian 'wunderkind' is finished now, what we're seeing now are the economic death-throes of an essentially greedy and lazy nation. Been a while coming, but hastened by the incompetent military government. *shrug*.

 

I'm alright Jack.Come what may and forgive my lack of sympathy, but I've seen how these people behave over the past 20-odd years and I have no sympathy left. Som nam na.

[Lucius verus]

TAT is so ignorant about the world. Everything to them revolves around MASS. The bigger the number of tourists the bigger the money we make.

Indians spend big only on themselves ie. weddings, family events, lavish jewelry and houses.   

Indians are not going to throw money at these Thais with their fake smiles and corrupt police intimidating everyone with their awful uniforms and street parades.

Indian jewelry is superior to Thai buying houses is dangerous & insane and tourism revolves around  overpriced scams. Forget it. Very few Indians,Chinese and Russians are wealthy and those that are won't come here.

Indian men will come here on Pattaya sex tours. 6 men rent two large hotel rooms and barfine 2 hapless bargirls for the day.

They cook food in their rooms with utensils they packed in their luggage. Same modus operandi as Sri Lankans.

Indians and Chinese will take Thai cooking classes? 555 . Thai food is a fusion of their cuisine.TAT is a joke.

Farangs and expats are the bread and butter of tourism and welfare  in LOS.

We all leave its over.

 

[MisterPenguin]

2 minutes ago, ZAKY said:

Remaining westerners are the ones that no choice as all their funds either locked in property or in wife’s otherwise many have already switched to neighbouring countries  for their hospitality and welcomming nature which are no more here. Nobody who is wealthy spending his own money here likes to be thrown in the same basket and get the humiliation of being checked openly in public by the immigration police in the same way as those who are wanted for overstaying. 

Seems fair, but look at it from the POV of Thais. They have to have some mechanism that allows them to feel superior in what is essentially a 3rd-world country full of 3rd-world people with poor educations. Other opportunities are few. Inventions are few and rarely original, innovations are few apart from putting a toilet roll on restaurant tables. LOS is not very inspiring really, so they rely on xenophobia to feel superior.

 

You're right about the Immigration police. but bear in mind their education is as minimal as everyone else's. They go to some bottom ranked university in Thailand (Rajapat or something similar), they come out with a degree in something or other easy but can't tell you where rain comes from. They have to pretend to their peers that they're somehow better than someone and foreigners are an easy mark. It's a cultural charcteristic in Thailand; try not to be hard on them, too many of them are suicidal as it is, mental illness abounds.

 

 

[micmichd]

14 minutes ago, ZAKY said:

Remaining westerners are the ones that no choice as all their funds either locked in property or in wife’s otherwise many have already switched to neighbouring countries  for their hospitality and welcomming nature which are no more here. Nobody who is wealthy spending his own money here likes to be thrown in the same basket and get the humiliation of being checked openly in public by the immigration police in the same way as those who are wanted for overstaying. 

Is it possible that the West is in its decline while Asia is prospering? 

If yes, I would suggest that Farangs get used to it. 

[unamazedloso]

why doesn't this country look at something other than stealing foreign money like perhaps manufacture something using thai labor?.. No one with half a brain that doesn't have a wife, husband or kids here would want to retiree here.

I dont think the air is clean enough for the oldies even the indian variety that know a thing or 2 about pollution.

[Caine]

Oh goodness gracious me, talk to any ordinary Thai they absolutely hate Indians. But I suppose they can fake their approval like everything else fake here. Ever seen an Indian in a Thai restaurant, so why would they want to learn how to cook Thai food when theirs is far superior. Another non starter 

[Matt96]

6 minutes ago, unamazedloso said:

why doesn't this country look at something other than stealing foreign money like perhaps manufacture something using thai labor?..

Thailand enjoys one of the lowest unemployment level in the world. Thai economy grows

 

seems like thai economic solutions are working

[Grusa]

1 hour ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

There's hundreds of empty ones in Pattaya already. Not a soul in them.

 

????

They are so clean, welcoming and courteous, and attract such a well behaved and pleasant clientelle, that neither my wife nor her anglo-indian friend would set foot in one. Nor would I, and I love Indian food.

 

Talk about seedy looking joints, in seedy looking streets......

[richiejom]

3 hours ago, Jimbo in Thailand said:

Really?  I've heard it uttered many times over the years and never heard it pronounced as "keck". Maybe regional pronunciation differences?

I just checked with my wife she said I was right...  its the Thai vowel 'Sara Eh เเ'  ... she looked bemused when I said Cack. It can be difficult to write in English though

[ravip]

14 hours ago, DrTuner said:

I'd suspect the elderly Indians that have got the cash can afford to go to better places than Thailand. 

For that matter, any elderly from ANY country, who has the money, can go to better places than Thailand! It is obvious that the elderly who cannot afford to live in their own country that come to Thailand and keep complaining about it. Sad, very sad indeed!

[micmichd]

1 hour ago, Pilotman said:

Indeed so. 

Not really anymore. NZ is part of ASEAN

[Puccini]

15 hours ago, mommysboy said:

Why would such a well-heeled person want to retire here? 

I believe the news article in the OP is not about retirement in Thailand.

[Bantex]

Yippee for Thai tourism or should that be Rupee for Thai tourism?

[Pilotman]

4 minutes ago, micmichd said:

Not really anymore. NZ is part of ASEAN

Only because we let them be. It's part of the British Empire's rehabilitation programme for Colonials.  ????

[raccos21]

Don’t worry this is just for temporary and the government quick money making strategy when there are problems occur or made an enough money then they will change the policy. Easy to predict like a sly fox.

[BestB]

1 hour ago, Snow Leopard said:

100% correct. But that doesn't change the culture. Indians invented Zero, Nil, Nothing. ????

That is incorrect , India invented zero(0) 

and that is what they want to pay for everything????????????

[micmichd]

12 minutes ago, raccos21 said:

Don’t worry this is just for temporary and the government quick money making strategy when there are problems occur or made an enough money then they will change the policy. Easy to predict like a sly fox.

Congratulations! You recently discovered that politics is about economy. How did you find out?

[ratcatcher]

7 hours ago, richiejom said:

Its pronounced more like 'Keck' though...at least thats what my old Thai teacher used to say, I will check with my wife

Better to check on line than with your wife. This interesting post from some years ago

Cack, OTOH, is an even worse slur. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cack

 

[fisherd3]

New strategy to keep them out long term ?

[bizboi]

I suspect it a non story - the TAT isnt expecting a flood but a small tap in a large market could be beneficial is their way of thinking.

[hotchilli]

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is targeting high spending senior citizens from India to make up the next wave of foreign tourists to visit Thailand

I guess they've killed off the Chinese market it's now time for a change..

or rather no change just new faces !!!