Time to put Phuket on show, no price gouging, Governor urges

By Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

Phuket Governor Narong Woonciew speakign during his video address this morning (July 29). Screenshot: PR Phuket

 

PHUKET:-- Phuket will be on show in the coming week as medical workers and volunteers start to arrive unde the government-subsidised domestic tourism campaign, so be nice hosts, welcome tourists and do not take advantage of them was the strong message delivered by Phuket Governor Narong Woonciew this morning (July 29).

 

In his new “Phuket Governor daily report to the people” video, Governor Narong today said, “This is a chance for us to show Phuket to people. Please do not look at them as potential victims. They are Thai, they are our neighbours and friends. Please put your rates down, do not overcharge for food, services, boat rides and taxis.

 

“Do not take advantage of them. Be a nice host. You know they can choose other provinces to travel to. Please take care of them well, if we welcome them well enough, they will share their experiences and provide good feedback with their friends. This is a way to have more tourists visit Phuket,” he added.

 

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7 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

and do not take advantage of them

haha, advice to thais; 'do not take advantage of tourists'; that'll work well????

7 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Please do not look at them as potential victims. They are Thai, they are our neighbours and friends. Please put your rates down, do not overcharge for food, services, boat rides and taxis.

I'm sorry, but the way I read that gives me the impression because they are Thai don't cheat or overcharge them.

That must surely be an admission of it happening in the past with foreigners, if the governor needs to say this.

32 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Please do not look at them as potential victims.

as you do the foreign Johnny's he mumbled .. 

3 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

37 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Please do not look at them as potential victims.

as you do the foreign Johnny's he mumbled .. 

'potential victims' Reminds of a girl in my GoGo bar years ago.

 

She was so good-looking with huge tracks of land (customers couldn't take their eyes off them), that she always picked her own victims - they never picked her.

I remember once a short guy trying to get off with her. Her reply was a scathing, "I don't think so."

 

33 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

That must surely be an admission of it happening in the past with foreigners, if the governor needs to say this.

 

The government itself is doing the same. Last weekend on Ko Samet:  Thai pay 40 Baht, foreigners 200 baht entrance fee.

 

They just assume that cheating foreigners is okay. This was just a reminder not to do that with Thai tourists.

 

Whaaaaaat! It's like the moth to the flame. They can't help themselves.

 

Must ..............Over ............Charge.  It's in their DNA. ????

The fact the guy needs to state it says it all about Phuket.

The guy in yellow has got his lucky rinsing shirt back from the laundry and has fallen fast asleep with a tight grip on his tally sheet only to later wake and find some joker has painted a mural of a ghost town on the wall void of any tourists and any future gouging was just a hazy distant dream ???? 

He said treat them well and do not overcharge because they are Thai. Unbelievable. 

Please do not look at them as potential victims dirty farangs. They are Thai, they are our neighbours and friends.

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

They are Thai, they are our neighbours and friends. Please put your rates down, do not overcharge for food, services, boat rides and taxis.

 

1 - It says a lot when he has to implore everyone not to cheat and rip off customers

2 - It says a lot when he says it is especially so because they are Thai

 

Over many years, when friends who have decided they want to visit Thailand and they've asked me where they should go to, I've always answered anywhere but Phuket. Any place that does absolutely nothing at all to reign in the taxi mafia as well as other rip-offs deserves no business at all.

A scorpion, which cannot swim, asks a frog to carry it across a river on the frog's back. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung by the scorpion, but the scorpion argues that if it did that, they would both drown.

The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both.

The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I couldn't help it. It's in my nature."

On 7/29/2020 at 12:42 PM, snoop1130 said:

Please do not look at them as potential victims. They are Thai, they are our neighbours and friends.

Ergo, non-Thai are victims. It'd be nice to dress it up another way, but that is the ethos in a nutshell, folks. I hope Vietnam leapfrogs the place.