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Tourism: Indians "last hope" for Pattaya as Thai media reports massive high season decline


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4 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

i know what i am going to say is a stereotypical comment about Indian people, but I saw it with my own eyes. I could not believe how they were grinding the massage ladies on price in Pattaya. I stood there and watched for a while outside a large shop. The one lady was holding her ground but it was brutal. 

Are you familiar with the Thai people's view of Indians?  As my wife says, you are in the jungle and see a cobra, close-by ... there is an Indian ... quick ... grab a stick and beat that Indian!  Before folks complain ... this is a fact, and I don't make the rules.  I do believe we shall see some real problems if too many tourists come from these areas ... and will add ... Pattaya, you sleep with a dog, you wake up with fleas.  This is not going to end well for locals and Expats.  So happy here in BKK!!!  ????

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5 minutes ago, Lumbini said:

WHEN the stunner girls that were all over Patia 10 years ago left so did the crowd and foreigners that spent lots of money there I watched it happen in South Beach Miami and the tourist that came when the hot girls were gone for a different class of tourists that spent nowhere near the amount of money that the former class of tourists spent that cone for the beautiful girls .

I want to bang an Indian ... and argue about getting a decent tip ... said no Thai Girl E-V-E-R

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1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

I really don't know where they get the figures from either. Let's say they have breakfast at a local eatery, buy a few things from 711 and then go to a bar where they have a few drinks and acquire the services of a local lady for the evening. How is any of this recorded as money being spent at all, let alone specifically by Indians?

 

Unless they are simply asking them at the airports which again is unreliable. Same as the arrival card, I never gave them accurate information about my salary/occupation etc. because a) it amused me pretending to be an a gynecologist on under 10,000 USD per year and b) it's none of their business. 

I can imagine Bank of Thailand is able to know how much indian rupee (And all sort of other money) is changed all over the country every month, or year, and immigration central office is able to know how much people from each nationality enter in Thailand every month or year.

 

If yes it's easy to know how much is the spend/each, even if it's just a medium

(One can spend 10 000 a day and another only 100, the medium is 5050\each and

its a wrong data for both) .

 

It's more difficult to do the same thing when you have 

few countries with a common money, like Euro. You can not determinate if the change

of money has been made by a french, a german or an italian guy.

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2 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

Strict visas, strong baht, TM30’S  weeding out of expats, pollution  all of it together seems to have an devastating effect on tourism.

Big spending Indians really?

adding 'all' the above stigmas... and it's not looking good!

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4 minutes ago, BestB said:

You should see what they do with 20 baht orange juice sellers????

I guess they really squeezed them? 

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5 hours ago, keith101 said:

Your problem is Indians aren't big spenders , they would much rather share and save and the baht is still to high for them to spend up just like most tourists . The only hope is that the economy crashes sooner rather than later and tourists can afford to come back but until then this is what to expect .

But they just said in the article the average Indian tourist spends 10,000 Bht a day compared to 5,000 baht a day the Chinese spend! HAhaha WHO makes up these figures?

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