800,000 travellers keen to ‘Eat, Shop, Spend’

By The Nation

 

 

Early results from the government’s “Eat, Shop, Spend” scheme to encourage tourists to support local businesses by rewarding them with vouchers indicate that most registering travellers are of working age.

 

Ministry spokesman Lavaron Sangsnit reported the statistics gleaned from the registration website in its first four days ending Thursday (September 26).

 

The registrants’ eligibility to participate in the scheme was checked against an Interior Ministry database to ensure their intended destinations varied from their hometowns based on household registration.

 

In all, 807,321 registrants qualified and were to be informed by Thursday via SMS.

 

Percentage of registrants by age

Working age (31-60) – 54%

Recent graduates (22-30) – 32%

College students (18-21) – 8%

Seniors (60+) – 6%

 

Most popular destination regions as chosen by registrants

Central – 43%

Northeast – 16%

East – 15%

South – 11%

North – 9%

West – 6%

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30376786

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2019-09-26

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My prediction for the most popular destinations for locals:

Nong Khai

Tak

Mukdahan

Narathiwat

 the extreme edges of the universe.

I take it this is concerning domestic Thai travellers in their own country?

While an admirable concept, surely this type of scheme would be better aimed at the Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Russian tourists who seem to come, be ferried from luxury hotel to luxury hotel, seeing a few tourist attractions inn between, who don't seem to spend in local low level businesses at all?

Edited September 26, 20196 yr by IvorLott

Sent this info to the Girlfriend, she's up country. She hadn't heard or it, she wasn't planning a holiday till I told her I was on my way. AUD 50 better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. 

How much did they spend is the question. 

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Early results from the government’s “Eat, Shop, Spend” scheme

Sponsored by the "Borrow, re-mortgage, lend" scheme ?

I thought the government was asking people to save money last week.  Or is that over now and everyone can spend again?

So the Ministry don't trust there own, the ministry checked the address details to make sure the vouchers INTENDED Place of use was different from the applicants home location, good idea now check where all the vouchers are spent may i suggest if 780.000 are spent in the noodle shop on the corner of Soi 9 it nay not of had the results the ministry hoped, well other than the noodle shop owner may get to retire early

And all those shops give out receipts and record all transactions thus report everything to gov't. Yep. Sure.

So the Ministry don't trust there own, the ministry checked the address details to make sure the vouchers INTENDED Place of use was different from the applicants home location, good idea now check where all the vouchers are spent may i suggest if 780.000 are spent in the noodle shop on the corner of Soi 9 it nay not of had the results the ministry hoped, well other than the noodle shop owner may get to retire early

23 hours ago, IvorLott said:

I take it this is concerning domestic Thai travellers in their own country?

While an admirable concept, surely this type of scheme would be better aimed at the Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Russian tourists who seem to come, be ferried from luxury hotel to luxury hotel, seeing a few tourist attractions inn between, who don't seem to spend in local low level businesses at all?

The problem is that Thailand has not developed much tourism infrastructure despite decades of big international tourist numbers.

There really are only a few nice places anywhere in Thailand.

The majority of places are Nakhon Nowheres, dusty, peppered with small shops selling nothing interesting.

After a person has seen one "mueang", he has seen them all.

Most of the country exceptionally boring -- in my own opinion and experience.

23 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Most popular destination regions as chosen by registrants

Central – 43%

Northeast – 16%

East – 15%

South – 11%

North – 9%

West – 6%

Good to see how the scam is regionalised.

10 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

Good to see how the scam is regionalised.

Love all these % figures.

Let's look at it from a golf point of view.

Hit your T shot and it lands just short of a big tree diretly in line with the green.

All trees, if you measure the overall volume based on dimensions and the volume of all the branches and leaves  turn out to be around 80 to 85% free space.

So if you hit the ball to go through the tree there is an 85% chance your ball will hit nothing on way through and go straight to the green. ????

Looks as great travelling????????????

Family members have been trying to register but to no avail.

 

Apparently they are limiting the daily numbers and they "sell out" within a couple of hours of becoming available....despite the daily quota starting at midnight!

 

They are going to persevere.

9 hours ago, Jimbo2014 said:

I thought the government was asking people to save money last week.  Or is that over now and everyone can spend again?

They just didn't listen!

If you live there, you eat 95% of the meals at home.
Tourists eat mostly which is cheap.
Food prices in Thailand are like the Westen, but the standard is -95%.

 

800,000 travellers keen to ‘Eat, Shop, Spend’

 

But if they plan on spending time in Bangkok and other places they's better not plan to Breathe without wearing an effective anti-pollution mask (PM2.5, N95 at least). Right now, across Bangkok, the Air Quality index is 185 by the RTAQ site, which is at the 'Unhealthy' or red level.

 

 

Edited September 28, 20196 yr by MaxYakov