Thai Tourism Ministry considers collecting tourism fees

[SteveK]

3 minutes ago, rhyddid said:

What about thinking something to incentivate tourism, instead of make it scare and not happy to come in ?  

They do want tourism and do offer incentives - for Chinese. They don't want farang tourists as seen from the little hissy fit last week.

[Davo369]

There never seems to be a dull moment here. 

 

[Flemo]

So they want to charge you extra for the coming to Thailand to spend your money? The mind boggles.

[Isaanbiker]

What about an oxygen tax?

 

 

[holy cow cm]

2 hours ago, SiSePuede419 said:

 

I'm guessing 99.9% of people all around the world don't fly out of their countries to "visit" another country 6 times a year.

 

Congratulations.  You're obviously in the Super Rich Jet Set economic bracket.

 

Or Cambodia is still a hardscrabble, lesser developed country than Thailand and doesn't have what you desperately want requiring you to spend your time and savings to obtain here in Thailand?

 

Just a casual observation.

Take another look and repost to the correct person. Your post comes off pointing this at me. I posted to this person's post. Post # 135 @ 3 hours ago, Thrifty69 said:

 

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[ThailandRyan]

3 minutes ago, Isaanbiker said:

What about an oxygen tax?

 

 

You mean for the Thai government officials wasting the air we can barely breathe.....I think its perfect, charge those dimwits...

 

[spidermike007]

Bear in mind Pipat, the minister, has absolutely no background in the tourism industry. 

 

When you constantly raid the bottom of the barrel for talent, this is what you get. 

 

Thailand is the polar opposite of a meritocracy. 

[smedly]

15 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

Obviously you do not keep abreast of current affairs. 

and you are just a misguided grumpy old man - you carry on with your insults and delusions 

[Canuck1966]

Two Russian children were killed and 21 other tourists injured when two speedboats collided near a marina in Muang district of the southern resort island at 7.50am on Monday.

 

Think they might to think about health and safety first

[holy cow cm]

As for the tax to keep tourist attractions looking good, this is utter BS. If part of it really covers tourists for health costs then great and stop blaming the Expats, but I seriously doubt it and it could be exclusive for Asians as their racist attitude is showing more and more. But the real slap in the face is for the expat long stayers, especially the ones who cannot get coverage under their BS rules.. Just wait as the Non O is going to be surely hit up. Might have to divorce my Thai wife and then go marry a Vietnamese and get a 5 year visa there.

[Canuck1966]

7 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Bear in mind Pipat, the minister, has absolutely no background in the tourism industry. 

 

When you constantly raid the bottom of the barrel for talent, this is what you get. 

 

Thailand is the polar opposite of a meritocracy. 

He's a puppet for his wife, have a look into her!!

[emptypockets]

1 hour ago, smew said:

NO WAY 92!!!!!... 83 is the norm.

I wonder how many farang Mensa candidates still get fleeced by such low IQ, uneducated Isaan princesses. Sort of proves IQ is not a significant factor in survivability or economics.

[Gweiloman]

3 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

As for the tax to keep tourist attractions looking good, this is utter BS. If part of it really covers tourists for health costs then great and stop blaming the Expats, but I seriously doubt it and it could be exclusive for Asians as their racist attitude is showing more and more. But the real slap in the face is for the expat long stayers, especially the ones who cannot get coverage under their BS rules.. Just wait as the Non O is going to be surely hit up. Might have to divorce my Thai wife and then go marry a Vietnamese and get a 5 year visa there.

Why do you hate returning to your home country so much that you are willing to divorce your wife and marry another just to continue staying in Asia? The other Asian countries are not going to be any less racist, some might even be more so. 

[holy cow cm]

3 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

I wonder how many farang Mensa candidates still get fleeced by such low IQ, uneducated Isaan princesses. Sort of proves IQ is not a significant factor in survivability or economics.

You can be whipped in any country. At least Issa women and girls are pretty. 

[Gweiloman]

4 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

I wonder how many farang Mensa candidates still get fleeced by such low IQ, uneducated Isaan princesses. Sort of proves IQ is not a significant factor in survivability or economics.

Thinking with the wrong head maybe?

[ROGER DUNN]

They certainly know how to Encourage Tourists ( I don’t think) No wonder their Numbers are Dropping ( Apart from the Coronavirus)

[emptypockets]

1 hour ago, VocalNeal said:

You guys crack me up. 

 

You are all over the internet on TVF complaining vociferously about everything Thai and then complain even more when the Thai tourism industry/immigration doesn't like you. 

 

Simply. Just live here be happy and keep all you pet gripes to yourself. 

My guess is less than ten percent of posters actually live in Thailand.

[goferman]

Hmmm … sounds a lot like Trump ordering Mexicans to pay for his wall ????

[holy cow cm]

6 minutes ago, Gweiloman said:

Why do you hate returning to your home country so much that you are willing to divorce your wife and marry another just to continue staying in Asia? The other Asian countries are not going to be any less racist, some might even be more so. 

The divorcing my Thai wife was a joke. I have a few kids here as well.  But being serious about not moving back to the USA after decades is not in my heart and not in my soul. I could live in Cambodia or on the border of Vietnam and do the jumps and then get multiple entry visa for trips to visit Thailand and the family. The thing is as everyone can see is here they are pushing the goal posts more and more and their racist attitudes are starting to show heavily. 

[raccos21]

After they know they can’t survive, they came up with some super duper idea of how to to cover the loss of the number of  Chinese tourists. Definitely this is  going to kill the  tourism industry here. I am sure the tourists will not be happy about it because they already spent a lot of money to come here and for the  hotel, food and etc. And on top they need to buy insurance nowadays and now they have to pay fees for tours in this country. It sounds like they are really desperate and making more scams to me. I don’t think this will attract many tourists to come here. I rather go to other countries than here. I

 

Edited February 11, 2020 by metisdead
Trolling meme removed.

[DrTuner]

1 hour ago, DrTuner said:

You forgot the PM2.5. I'm looking out to the sea in Samui, visibility about 600m. AQI 97. What's not to like?

Well, it rained and the air cleaned a bit. Enough to see a large plastic garbage patch floating towards the beach. So exotic!

[tomacht8]

In all meetings it seems that the only discussion is about how the existing product - thai tourism - can be made more expensive.

 

Maybe those responsible should think about how they can improve the product itself.

 

Constantly charging higher prices for an old or even a deteriorating product only annoys consumers.

 

This is actually basic marketing knowledge. There is an impression that many of those responsible do not even have basic knowledge.

[KamalaRider]

9 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

Surely this would be more environmentally friendly, less expensive and more efficient tooperate

That requires a driver to operate and drive that truck, not sure if they have anyone in Thailand. 

[BobbyL]

14 minutes ago, tomacht8 said:

 

 

Maybe those responsible should think about how they can improve the product itself.

 

 

I don't think they can. Apart from building a few shiny shopping malls nothing for tourists here has improved and lots of it has / is deteriorating. 

 

In my opinion it is an arrogance of thinking that no matter what product they serve, people really want to come to Thailand. That was true in the 90s and early 00s, but not now. 

[Isaanbiker]

1 hour ago, Canuck1966 said:

He's a puppet for his wife, have a look into her!!

How could anybody here on this forum look into her?

[Eindhoven]

This thread is in the wrong place.

 

It should be here; 

 

[emptypockets]

1 hour ago, Tracyb said:

Many of those "coffin dodgers" are self insured well beyond the limits required.

Self insured is a polite way of saying you can't afford insurance.

[natway09]

Get the tight ar...  Finance Ministry to give you some of the departure tax

[Artisi]

9 hours ago, Creasy said:

They’ve run out of feet to shoot off.

They should now start on the head, that's the one on the shoulders and between the ears. 

[overherebc]

9 hours ago, bkkcanuck8 said:

There is already a fee included in the ticket price (use to be paid on departure but now collected at time ticket is purchased - 700 baht or something thereabouts).

 

 

9 hours ago, bkkcanuck8 said:

There is already a fee included in the ticket price (use to be paid on departure but now collected at time ticket is purchased - 700 baht or something thereabouts).

 

Ssshhhh. You were meant to have forgotten about that.