Big spending Indians - 5,800 baht a day - set to revolutionize Thai tourism!

[Steve Vincent]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Two million are expected to visit in 2019 - but that will rise to 14 million by the end of the next decade.

 

TNN have reported that the average Indian spends a whopping 5,800 baht a day. 

Indians spending over 40,000 baht week ???????????? Pull the other one  sounds like Mumbai coming to a beach near you ! 

[madmen]

3 hours ago, michaellee said:

Big deal 5800 baht a day. I spent that in 1 hour at a gogo. 

The 4k fan room boys would stretch that out to 14 days..Sure its a big deal

 

 

[sunnyboy2018]

9 hours ago, zydeco said:

Those aren't "visitors," they're "colonists."

No. They return home. Its the whites who remain for decades,  hating the locals  importing western food and not learning the language

[sunnyboy2018]

8 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

and still the girls do a runner .. 

Thats a myth. Many girls prefer Indians.  A fact many whites are not aware of. The girls prefer Thais and Japanese too.

[sunnyboy2018]

Just now, otaku00 said:

Fake news. We can see that it is the other way round: two thirds at least are male sex tourists. Even in cities like Chiang Mai you don't see many Indian tourists at all. And they are known as cheap Charlies, shariing rooms and women. Besides, you are already in the top 10 of Indians with a monthly income over 800 Euro. 

You see what you want to. Anyway sex tourists spend more money than vegan gay backpackers. You are just threatened.

[Penefattore]

6 hours ago, bbbbooboo said:

Hmmm.... More likely to be 580 baht a day I suspect?

5 baht and 80 satang.

 

They just put a , instead of a .

 

Same for the Chinese , it's actually 6 baht and something.

[Jingjock]

Keep this <deleted> coming, I can't stop laughing, its better than Laurel & Hardy

[Jim walker]

5800 Baht That’s only the afternoon beer bar bill you can double that for the evening night bill 5800 is a pretty miserable day out in Bangkok 

[jeff270476]

And they feel ashame with this picture?.. The HOLIDAY label ????????????????

[Stargeezr]

Yes, even my Brother in law and sister, with their 6 kids will cost about 5000

baht or more per day, especially if they eat in a restaurant, and go to one or two

tourist attractions, and take a van to get there and around the city they are

visiting. This is a nonsense story, to try make Thai Tourism feel good, and to try

BS the Indian tourist into thinking that they are special. It insults every other

nationality, but what the heck, TAT does not care.

Geezer

[gearbox]

3 hours ago, Trolleen said:

i do not understad. How indian can spend 5600 bath per day if average salary in India much more lower än i thailand. There people in India who have money , but not many.

Many of then have salary of 15.000 bath per month.

How is it possible?

1.59 million visiting now is roughly 0.125 percent out of 1.4 billion population. Definitely the top 2-3% or more earn fairly good money there.

[kingofthemountain]

1 hour ago, sunnyboy2018 said:

Thats a myth. Many girls prefer Indians. 

it's important to be precise

''many fat and\or ugly and\or older girls prefer indians'' sound more accurate

not a myth but real according to what i see on a daily\night basis in Pattaya.

The indians have simply took the place with these girls since the turks, iranians

and others countries of area, the gulf and the middle east have disappeared for some reasons

(Politics. wars, exchange rates and some others issues)

[joecoolfrog]

5 hours ago, KKr said:

tuk-tuk is the three-wheeler that is less comfortable yet more expensive than a taxi, isn't it.
Only 500 B, that sounds like about 20 km or more in local prices. 
 

Unless the locality is Phuket in which case 2 km would be about right.

[gearbox]

3 hours ago, BestB said:

Keep reading how big Indians are spending, but keep seeing 4 sharing a bottle of water from 7-11 and 2 sharing one bed in hotel.

 

Keep reading how Indians are buying big but keep seeing Indians trying to get bargain in 7-11

 

Keep reading how Indians spend big on food and drinks, but keep seeing indians sharing 5 chicken nuggets between 8 men and sharing 1 bottle of Heineken between 5 .

 

So where can i go to see Indians spending big? Anyone have a suggestion?

I see none of this in Samui, but then again not many Indians venture here and mostly families are coming.  Most are proper professionals, not tatooed bogans, and spend accordingly.

 

In fact quite often in the restaurants the worst customers are from a certain European nation, who order little, complain a lot, and hang around for hours after finishing eating.

[nong38]

Cricket, you need to start building cricket grounds or you are on a loser.

You see the problem goes back to education, if the Thais knew anything about history and geography they would know how much Indians love cricket. This don't don't because they dont teach or understand the rest of the world.

HOWZAT!

[sunnyboy2018]

11 hours ago, starky said:

Where are these wonderful theme parks and zoos? Surely not places like the tiger temple or other Victorian era exploitive animal traps where the occupants are mistreated and starving. As for theme parks has Thailand ever had a world class theme park? Ever? Na really just sayin 

You are so wrong. There are two massive water parks that are rated as being in the top in the world.in chonburi There are also two brilliant open air theme parks and gardens. Thailand also has some of the biggest, best most unique festivals in the world...all for free. There are plenty of excellent animal based places of interest including the Surin elephant round up, the Lopburi  monkey feast, The Sri Racha tiger park, various sea worlds. To say nothing of the cultural festivals,  firework festivals  food festivals   music festivals..so much. If a person lives in Thailand and does not know about these and many more great activities they are simpy stupid or ignorant.

[SpanishExpat]

Funny that they will NEVER understand that. Who cares if the spent 100k Baht per day? The important thing is WHERE they spend it? Neither Chinese nor Indians are going "deeper" into Thailand than BKK, the North and few beach destinations. Most of them come here for a short time. 

In comparison westerners usually dig deeper into LOS, go off the track. The backpackers were often criticized as "Beg"packers, but they are the ones who brought money to 2nd and 3rd tier destinations in the LOS, staying overnight in small hostels and guesthouses run by local people. 

Apart from the strong Baht, they should simply focus on ALL tourist groups.

 

The local population won`t benefit from Chinese groups or Indian families spending most of it in the malls or pre-booked restaurants.

 

And the 2nd point is that if won`t be funny for all those Thai bar-girls to get used to the new customer group. Just came back from Delhi...met some friends there. They are well-off, I respect them, but when it comes to their attitudes towards Thai women I get goosebumps. Most upper-middle-class Indian men think like that....so I really pity all those girls.

 

 

[Iforbach]

Best joke I've heard all year ...

[Soikhaonoiken]

B5,800 per day haha, they must mean B5,800 per group of 10 per day = B580 as we all know the Indians love to share everything.. 

[BuckBee]

How many times I seen TAT going after indian tourist over last decade, they wooing them via Bollywood last attempt lol .

Lot of indians do have good money and do spend well, I see them at airports spending very well, far better than I do and obviously wealthy and reasonably smart appearance and manner, unfortunately majority of those types do not come to thailand .

Majority who come thailand do so on pretence of value, it cheap flight and air india, jet airway ect are packed with indians but doubt they spending the suggested figures lol .

Reality is TAT should be targetting ALL potential tourists and biggest improvement needed is thailand cleaning itself up and having more on offer so tourist come without needing pay them 800Bt lol .

What happened to all the TAT tourist booths in SIlom lol, built new and had chairs and computers installed but what I was told by thai connected to bangrak ampur was usual graft meant no money staff it ???? lol , typical thailand screwing itself by stealing from itself . In the meantime tourist found malaysia and vietnam better ...

[captpkapoor]

14 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

5800 X 14 days = 81,2000

 

my expenses approximately.  not including one time costs like motorcycle, scooter:

 

90,000 X 12 months disposable income = 1,080,000.00

 

1,080,000.00 / by 81,200 = 13.3

 

so I am worth 13.3 Indian tourists.

 

 

 

 

 

Most come on a 5 or 6 day holiday.

[mmushr00m]

Don't want to brag but I have spent more than that on a night's out ????

[Fireyfish]

14 hours ago, starky said:

Where are these wonderful theme parks and zoos? Surely not places like the tiger temple or other Victorian era exploitive animal traps where the occupants are mistreated and starving. As for theme parks has Thailand ever had a world class theme park? Ever? Na really just sayin 

Pattaya is a theme park

 

 

[Andrew65]

14 hours ago, andy72 said:

dont be mean 

 

look at the photo

 

you can just see the money dripping off them

 

and you should take journalism at face value 

 

there are 8 of them in the photo equals 725 a head per day that sounds feasible no fake news there

 

 

The article states that the number is per person, not for 8 people.

[spidermike007]

Total BS. Though they are big spenders worldwide, the low and lower middle class Indians that Thailand is able to attract do not spend even half that amount. Same with the Chinese.

 

Note to the hapless Thai Army: Dream on. Accept no responsibility for your tragic mistakes and the horrific burden you have inflicted on your people. 

[tingtong]

A few typos...?

Perhaps correctly:

 

In 2020, approx 20 thousands of Indian "tourists"/migrants expected to illegally stay in Thailand spending/trying to live on 5800 thb... monthly.

 

Should greatly help the Thai economy, especially the immigration police much in need of bribes due the reduced number of farang expats.

 

Now job well done getting the cream of Asian high net worth here, TAT can fully focus on the final big fish, Africa!!

Said that the Zimbabweans are really the high daily spenders Thailand are after, may spend as much as 10000 dollars a day!!

( Shhhh, don't tell TAT that it is a different dollar, 10000 worth only 1 thb!)

 

 

[WhatupThailand]

9 hours ago, Don Chance said:

 

Lots of wealth Indians and Nepali's have been to Thailand before but they do not return. They know racism when they feel it.

 

Beaches are better in India, Goa and Kerala, they also have Andaman Islands and Lakshadweep.

Indians have heard of the famous sex in Thailand, that is all they might come for. Even that is not so great.

Guess not so great when they cannot get the 5 for 1 deal they try to bargain for.

OR the "I need to sample it first" ploy.

[stickyrice2000]

Bye bye farangs and welcome Chinese and Indian tourists.  

[Elad]

15 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

They must mean 5800 satang.

Yes, that gets you 1 bottle of Heineken and six straws

[Dukeleto]

13 hours ago, KKr said:

Big spending Indians - 5,800 baht a day - set to revolutionize Thai tourism!

 

well, if that is meant as a tongue in cheek headline, then it is surely a tongue with a Colonist supremacist bias that echoes well among the contributors to this "discussion". 

 

By Colonial Supremacist are you referring to the same group of people who literally invented everything including the transportation that gets the tourists to their destinations without which the very words “Thai Tourism” would have never come into being.