"Quality tourists" - Chinese, IconSiam customers, five star hotel guests.

"Low-quality tourists" - portly, aged, barstool warming farangs.

 

The former fill the coffers of Thailand's elite, funding their latest real estate ventures and filling their garages with supercars. However, the latter end up supporting a much wider range of Thais, particularly those out in Issan, with their "sick buffalo" living expenses, refrigerators, motorbikes, and eventual marriages.

 

We all know which industries the two groups are in, which is why for the face-saving Thais, they wish to promote one and deny the existence of the other. Well, why not do more to get the latter out of that unmentionable area, with better education and job opportunities? Nah. One of the benefits of being hi-so, perhaps the one they most enjoy, is that distance they maintain.

the wuhan express will be running to Phuket again shortly ...lucky bastards ...

a-nut-in charge

14 hours ago, thequietman said:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53046454

and just to reaffirm the above post, have a look here https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53054388

Thailand will not be choosy.

 

 

These people seem to forget............ China loves China.  Chinese need domestic tourism to support Chinese.  China will not allow people to visit other countries, they will be made to visit local tourism spots in China to boost the Chinese economy.  

 

The TAT want Thais to do Thai domestic tourism and then suddenly think that the Chinese will not do the same ??????  China will not push domestic tourism and will let everyone fly around the world to boost other countries ?????

 

I think they are in for a big surprise when they find hardly anybody comes of their "chosen few".

 

 

What about international students? Don't forget them. Schools already have policies in place for 2 week isolation before can come on campus.  

I'd want to understand what test I would have to fail before being quarantined here at my own expense for 14 days, the potential for abuse here is massive.

14 hours ago, mark131v said:

And the screw continues to be turned by the xenophobe in chief.....

Nothing more xenophobic than the majority on this forum.

It would be a warped mind that did not apply restrictions to countries that failed to handle the pandemic effectively.

 

Every evening I watch the UK news and my wife was horrified that it took a law to make people wear face masks on public transport, is it any wonder the Thais are reluctant to have people from the UK and US come here at this time. Pure common sense, nothing xenophobic in it whatsoever.

1 hour ago, Brickbat said:

Anutin must be laughing at all the comments. Seriously. This guy is a powerhouse in this Admin and calls the shots. We are guests here. If you don’t feel welcome, why stay? Not taking up for him or anyone, but he’s well within his rights to “ choose”, same as other countries are doing. 

And tourists are free to choose whether or not to come to Thailand. I think I know which they will choose. Anutin is in for a rude awakening when his 'plan' spectacularly backfires.

And bad facts appear in his advantage, as a  defense against his more well willing colleague ministers , as New. Zealand can forget their virus free declaring status , same for South Korea both has  new cases now….., but how he go help his Chinese buddy's now as they also have new cases....?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jun/16/coronavirus-live-news-covid-19-update-global-cases-pass-8-million-beijing-china-partial-lockdown-latest-updates

6 hours ago, kingdong said:

the thais dependant on tourism can,t afford rice,let them eat cake.

Wish history would repeat itself if this were the case,

15 hours ago, mark131v said:

China, wasn't they the ones that started the whole thing? where they the ones that continued to cover up their real numbers? second wave you say, but they have been so transparent and open throughout so surely they should be top of the list...

 

Sarcasm alert for the hard of thinking..

I can only surmise that Anutin only picked up the phone to discuss this matter with the Chinese Ambassador after a well-stuffed brown envelope from the Chinese Embassy had landed on his desk.

 

14 hours ago, baansgr said:

Only last year, Pattaya merchants, bar owners etc were begging for more Western tourists as the Chinese and Indians didn't spend the same....He may find Thais are not in agreement with his views

The Chinese were never big on bars in the first place. Their spending habits are more towards luxury goods and food. 

14 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

He must have been pants and given a swirly when he was a student in the west.  It is the only thing that could drive his hatred for westerners.

"He must have been pants and given a swirly". Translation into English, please?

15 hours ago, Blumpie said:

Was this guy dropped on head head as a kid?  

Looks like straight on his face. 

China has done an excellent job of controlling covid. Singapore has not. Of course Taiwan has done the best, but TH government pretends they don't exist. How will keeping out those 20 million potential healthy tourists help the Thai people?

I usually try to see things objectively and try to see a positive in most things but in this individuals case no comment whatsoever.

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

the Kingdom will restrict the type of travellers allowed into the country, Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Monday (June 15).

Perhaps a lot less of the nationality I don't need to name then? Sadly I don't think he's referring to them.

9 minutes ago, Traubert said:

Yes, now 79 cases. Thank you for rising so early just to hand out the insults.

 

over 100 now actually and thats from yesterdays figures

It is like I have said for a long time Flip and Flop (the general and his health mate) have planed that after they win the next election they will tell the government that Thailand should  become a province of China and Flip and Flop should be the rulers. Will the government fall for such a plain?

Oh well, no Americans. 

 

Boy the Nation writes some short crappy articles with no details.

15 hours ago, bwpage3 said:

I think he is over-estimating how many people actually will travel at this point in time.

 

 

I think he is over estimating how many people would want to come to Thailand having shown his and the people's dislike  of foriengners over the last few weeks.

1 hour ago, Deli said:

"Countries who did not have a severe outbreak" This requirement must exclude China automatically. 

Why? 79 is severe?

3 minutes ago, Traubert said:

Why? 79 is severe?

You keep saying the figure is 79, its not, well over 100 now.

 

The next three days will be critical for Beijing to curb the outbreak as people infected with the coronavirus start to show symptoms, according to Wu Zunyou, a top epidemiologist with China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The earliest cases in Beijing were likely infected with coronavirus near the end of May.

15 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

over 100 now actually and thats from yesterdays figures

OK, well spotted.

 

24,043 in America. THAT is an outbreak.

50 minutes ago, sandyf said:

Nothing more xenophobic than the majority on this forum.

It would be a warped mind that did not apply restrictions to countries that failed to handle the pandemic effectively.

 

Every evening I watch the UK news and my wife was horrified that it took a law to make people wear face masks on public transport, is it any wonder the Thais are reluctant to have people from the UK and US come here at this time. Pure common sense, nothing xenophobic in it whatsoever.

Come on !  " Dirty Farangs should be deported ".......  Say that in any civilized country and you'd be up to your rear end in lawyers for the next twenty years....... 

This guy just epitomises everything that is wrong about this current government. 

16 hours ago, Blumpie said:

Was this guy dropped on head head as a kid?  

Probably not, that would have knocked some sense into him. 

Thailand will be very choosy about who can visit, insists Anutin...

 

.. Or you Don’t know who I am? ????????????

8 minutes ago, Traubert said:

OK, well spotted.

 

24,043 in America. THAT is an outbreak.

More like Darwinism in action.