snoop1130 Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 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 Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking Thailand news and visa info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PatOngo Posted September 26, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted September 26, 2019 My prediction for the most popular destinations for locals: Nong Khai Tak Mukdahan Narathiwat the extreme edges of the universe. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IvorLott Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 (edited) 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, 2019 by IvorLott 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Oziex1 Posted September 26, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted September 26, 2019 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. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colabamumbai Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 How much did they spend is the question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RichardColeman Posted September 27, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted September 27, 2019 11 hours ago, snoop1130 said: Early results from the government’s “Eat, Shop, Spend” scheme Sponsored by the "Borrow, re-mortgage, lend" scheme ? 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo2014 Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 I thought the government was asking people to save money last week. Or is that over now and everyone can spend again? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almer Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerojero Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fex Bluse Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadbury Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overherebc Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 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. ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felt 35 Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Looks as great travelling???????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmitch Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatOngo Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 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! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkokazy Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 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%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxYakov Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 (edited) 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, 2019 by MaxYakov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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