13 hours ago, Jessi said:

If you believe the numbers put out by TAT.....

????You must believe in the "Tooth Fairy"

You mean to tell me that after all these years the tooth fairy is not real? Party pooper!!

Tourist numbers down 40% compared to last year, and last year was bad – Pattaya

https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/tourism/tourist-numbers-down-40-compared-to-last-year-and-last-year-was-bad-pattaya-2

18 minutes ago, BestB said:

Tourist numbers down 40% compared to last year, and last year was bad – Pattaya

https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/tourism/tourist-numbers-down-40-compared-to-last-year-and-last-year-was-bad-pattaya-2

Hey mr rundown no client guest house owner I guess you missed this Damrongkiet says that, anecdotally, the numbers are down a massive 40% when compared to last year.

 

zero proof. Still cant figure out why you keep s##ting in your own nest. If I was struggling to run a decrepit old guest house like yourself I would take a different approach .

4 minutes ago, madmen said:

Hey mr rundown no client guest house owner I guess you missed this Damrongkiet says that, anecdotally, the numbers are down a massive 40% when compared to last year.

 

zero proof. Still cant figure out why you keep s##ting in your own nest. If I was struggling to run a decrepit old guest house like yourself I would take a different approach .

Are you still sulking? Of course Pattaya Entertainment and Tourism Industrial Association knows nothing in comparison to you, a 400 baht room man who can not afford to buy 200 baht towels in Thailand and needs to bring it from Australia????

 

PS. If you were struggling? you can not afford 200 baht towels, i say you are border line destitute already????

hahaha, based on what? the thai baht?  no way this is gonna happen.  There must be another reason i do not know yet !

If you repeat a lie so many times in media it might become true - ain't that the mantra nowadays? 

Why not simply round up to 77%? About as likely. 

Hey! High Season is back! 2 weeks to Christmas, and the northern tourists are

coming to get away from Winter.  TAT, such wisdom, such great information, not..

Geezer

Just came thru bkk at midnight yesterday. Customs was overwhelmed not by the volume of people but by the inability of the chinese tourists to figure out how to scan their fingerprints. 35 minutes waiting for a relatively short line. I would say most people in line were not westerners.  Flight was not full from Taiwan to bkk but pretty close. 3 months ago, same flight, maybe 50-60% full.

23 hours ago, webfact said:

He told Thai business media that an increase in flights this year will mean a sharp rise in the number of visitors.

Flights mean nothing, it's bums on seats that count.... if the cost is not correct or the value of the holiday can be bettered in another country the new flight will be pulled faster than a punter in massage shop!

23 hours ago, colinneil said:

T.A.T.expect 7% rise in foreign visitors at new year, Yuthasak you are a comedian.

I expect many beautiful young ladies to visit me at new year.???? aint gonna happen.

 

Didn't you know that the out going POTY always gets an end of year delivery of fine young ladies ?? 

At least that's what I think Yinn has promised, amongst other delusional things ????????

Met up with a friend yesterday, he is a GM of a large hotel in Hua Hin. He told me that most hotels there are way down on bookings over Xmas and New Year. They have a GM Facebook group and all discuss things about the area in general...

60% occupancy compared to 90% past year !!! Spin that one TAT

Meanwhile in the real world on Phuket and in Pattaya .....

Total BS. By now, they are probably counting a transit to Chiang Mai as two arrivals. And all business visitors are also counted amongst the tourist arrivals, no doubt. 

 

he tiny minds at the TAT and within the administration do not even see increasing numbers as a problem, not the solution. That is how blinded they are by cash, and ever increasing arrival numbers. The quality of life would be greatly diminished for every traveler who comes to Thailand. Massive number do not translate into a benefit for society. Choosing quantity of quality is a tremendous error in judgment. Thailand is only able to attract the low and lower middle class amongst the Chinese and Indian tourists. The ones with money have too many other options, and cannot get what they want in Thailand. Quality tourism is going to continue to diminish here, and is currently a pale shadow of what it used to be, and as a result millions of Thais in tourism are hurting. The hurt is going to get much worst.

 

One can only hope and pray it leads to the eventual ouster of the hapless army, who have the well being of the Thai people and our ex-pat community as their last priority in the world. 

18 hours ago, CNXexpat said:

You are living in Pattaya, that says all. Only cheap tourists. In Chiang Mai are only a few tour buses but lots of Chinese individual travelers (families, group of friends, couples) they spend a lot of money.

Only a few buses in Chiang Mai, because it’s a dead hole. With nothing to do except breath in toxic fumes.

Rubbish on the beach after full moon party haad Rin Koh Phangan Thailand 

 

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Quality Tourism

 

1 hour ago, Caine said:

Only a few buses in Chiang Mai, because it’s a dead hole. With nothing to do except breath in toxic fumes.

Lol. I guess you have never been in Chiang Mai (or you have been here but you don't like temples, friendly people, mountains, caves, waterfalls, etc.) and also I guess you are not living in greater Bangkok where the air is much more worse right now.

Greetings from my terrace where I am looking in a blue sky in this moment.

A "Foreigner" is deemed to be someone north of Lop Buri and  south a line between Pattaya and Hua Hin.

On 12/13/2019 at 7:55 AM, Jessi said:

If you believe the numbers put out by TAT.....

????You must believe in the "Tooth Fairy"

And Father Christmas......

The truth is that tourism is around 50% down on 2 yrs ago. 

I don't know who are the most deluded or ill-informed, but I can make an educated guess.

 

It's pretty obvious when stupidity trumps bitterness in the haste to display ones ignorance.