Thailand to tout tourists from Middle East and North Africa

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Thailand to tout tourists from Middle East and North Africa

By The Nation

 

 

Wego, the largest online travel marketplace in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has announced its partnership with the Tourism Authority of Thailand, to increase travel demand to the country from the MENA region.

 

Under this partnership, Wego will promote Thailand as a friendly, beautiful, cultural and historic destination encouraging the season and off-season bookings as well as repeat visits to the country.

 

Wego and Tourism Authority of Thailand will also generate destination awareness and promote tourism to Thailand focusing on the great experiences, events and all year-round activities. Travellers will get to try the local traditions and festivities and explore trending destinations in Thailand such as Ayutthaya, Chiang Mai, Sukhothai, Samut Prakan, Chon Buri, Phuket, Songkhla, Suphan Buri and Bangkok.

 

The mix between beaches, food, nature and culture along with the diverse activities and the mesmerising island escapes that Thailand offers have put it among the top favourite global destinations for MENA travelers.

 

Mamoun Hmedan, Managing Director, MENA and India, Wego, said: “Last year, we saw over 5 million searches from MENA travellers on Wego to Thailand. The country continues to provide unique leisure and business offerings to travellers all year round. Our partnership with the Tourism Authority of Thailand further supports our strategy to partner with leading tourism boards around the globe and increase the number of bookings and searches to these destinations.”

 

Pichaya Sais, Director of Tourism Authority of Thailand’s Middle East office, said: “With the way people are booking holidays becoming more and more digitally-focused, it is important for us to ensure we are creating forward-thinking and digitally-advanced partnerships that make Thailand as easily accessible to visitors as possible. Last year, we welcomed over 550k visitors from the Middle East and we hope that this partnership with Wego will help us build on this.” 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30371734

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2019-06-25

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[BritManToo]

So Big Joke rounds up the drug dealers and romance scammers and chucks em out.

Then he's sacked, and TaT invites them back in.

Everyone except white folk is welcomed to Thailand.

 

Amazing Thailand.

[DrTuner]

This was to be seen. After Russians and Chinese are going elsewhere and Euros, Ozzies and Yanks are nowhere to be seen, Arabs & Africans are the last resort.

[Saddic]

Only quality tourists wanted...  555

 

[kevvy]

They will run out of countries soon .

[wisperone]

Ah huh...let us know how that goes for ya. We know how Thailand loves the ones from the Dark Continent.

[overherebc]

Lets hope they all turn up with a return ticket, a passport with a visa and 20,000 baht cash.

And the TM6 filled in before they reach Imm' desks.

[jaiyen]

Great ! Now they want to invite people from violent countries that are mainly Moslem. So what's the problem ???  TAT must think they are all rich Arab types with huge amounts of money.  Truth is, they have tried every other country on the planet !

[Lucius verus]

I've never known a country so reliant on tourism for survival yet so determined to destroy it.

The "bad guys out good guys in" policy started way back when Thaksin became PM.

Thailand's been in a slow downward spiral ever since then. Mass tourism will kill it and bringing in all these third world budget tourists makes LOS a huge turn off for cashed up westerners.

[Hayduke]

 

 

TAT is just trying to make her Chinese boyfriend jealous by joining another dating site.

 

 

 

[Alan Michael]

North African people are generally poor except for a few scumbags that have made their money through corruption and anyway North Africa has it's own beautiful beaches and interesting tourist sites.

The wealthy middle east people want to get out of the heat of their own countries and always go to the cooler Mediterranean countries for their vacations. Many may come just for the sex pots like Pattaya.

Good luck with that.

[fforest1]

I guess even the Nigerians are more welcome now than the horrible distasteful western retirees... 

[stanleycoin]

The locals are already getting geared up for them.

 

[KiChakayan]

Bad guys out, fundamentalists in.

Without any sexual connotation, of course.

[Deli]

And no alcohol will be served to them, pork meat will be banned and girls all must wear at least a head scarf, if not a full Burka.

Is business really that bad ?

 

[Lenny Jones]

Yep - target the war-torn muslim locations.  Perfect tourist supply market.

 

Are these people for real?

[rodpav]

Yeah real quality tourists there Thailand is going down the drain

[300sd]

Quality tourists are attracted to quality countries for vacations. It's not here.

[poohy]

12 hours ago, dutchdude said:

camel thiefs and goat abusers are really nice people to have as guests 

 

A bit harsh i feel, i enjoyed my time in Egypt and Yemen in the good old days

 

Re holidays one BIG PROBLEM  no sheesha (or very limited eg only in Pattaya) its not going to work !

[fforest1]

14 minutes ago, Deli said:

And no alcohol will be served to them, pork meat will be banned and girls all must wear at least a head scarf, if not a full Burka.

Is business really that bad ?

 

Yes the GoGo girls will be required to wear full Burks...lol

[Youlike]

The best thing about thailand is not seeing those north africans all days.

[morrobay]

13 hours ago, DrTuner said:

This was to be seen. After Russians and Chinese are going elsewhere 

Chinese going elsewhere? I wish,  but it doesn't look like it in Pattaya anyway.

[Artisi]

Can see that TAT are really striving to raise the level of sophisticated tourist, going from strength to strength everyday. 

[Tayaout]

The level of racism in this thread is as expected. I went to north Africa and met plenty of fine peoples. However they are pretty poor in general. 

[Creasy]

Who’s next ? The Eskimos ?

[sirocco]

post 12 Alan Michael, good morning,

You surely have a lack of knowledge of North Africa and its inhabitants.
If the beaches and the environment were correct until the 1970s, now it is only degradation of all kinds (houses not maintained, cemeteries and monuments ransacked, garbage cans, rubbish even in flats, chickens and sheep sharing rooms, and beaches serving toilet and barbecues)
As for poverty, yes, there is, but as in all countries.
In any case, Europe is very very generous for these countries.
No need to work, just cross the seas.
Yes, we have not finished seeing the niqab and the hijab.

[sirocco]

Yes, post 26, but wait until you see them come to your place.
You will quickly change your analysis.
Have a good day.

[Sydebolle]

Well, wondering if Soi 6 raids are possible in the future. Most likely the sheep farm on the outskirts of Pattaya has to install CCTV systems without further delay ........... 

[soalbundy]

There goes the neighbourhood.

[Nowisee]

16 minutes ago, 300sd said:

Quality tourists are attracted to quality countries for vacations. It's not here.

I've read on the internet and watched vlogs, this is paradise.  

 

13 hours ago, kevvy said:

They will run out of countries soon .

That one-time customer mentality is now paying back.