Visit Thailand but conditions apply: Tracking devices, set routes away from Thais and "Covid minders" mooted

[ChrisKC]

There is already so much "face" lost with these Ideas men, that shortly, there will be no space left for their masks!

[billd766]

8 hours ago, PatOngo said:

However will they be able to rip off the farang now? I don't think this will go down too well with the greedy!

The tourists will probably have to pay for the food, accommodation, travel costs and also pay the salary for the hire of their minder as well.

[Jiggo]

10 hours ago, Dmaxdan said:

A Covid minder?  Of course! The perfect opportunity for Thailand to invent a new uniform. 

And more Medals. 

[johnmcc6]

Someone should tell these clowns that farrang will chip their dog but never themselves or family. As nice as Thailand is it is not the be all the government thinks it is . Since the change of government it is clear to many long stayers they are not really wanted here as shown by the constant immigration rules and comments from some government ministers. A shame they have no good ideas that include treating foreigners with respect or show them the smiles that used to the norm. but no more. As for demanding millions in bank accounts and ideas about buying real estate in order to get a visa, They will never get tourists or long stay visitors with all the nonsense they come up with. Perhaps if they read what we all have say on Thai visa forums they would learn something

[Max69xl]

The STV was a ridiculous suggestion,but maybe this one is even more stupid. 

[daveAustin]

On the quiet, pre-COVID, this is the kind of thing the powers-that-be would dearly love to have put in place for Thailand. Bhutan-style. 

[daveAustin]

2 hours ago, johnmcc6 said:

Perhaps if they read what we all have say on Thai visa forums they would learn something

If they did that, pretty sure at least 50% of us would be locked up. 

[Edwin Cameron]

This is another comedy of beaurocrats trying to outdo each other with the magic solution. Tourists aren't going to adhere to any of those restrictions,being told where to go,being followed by a goon squad,not to mention 'corruption' by the goons who follow you.Nope,back to drawing boards. I for one like to go to out of the way places in Thailand,not BK. or Pattaya etc.they are sewerage pits. 

[Damrongsak]

16 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

yes follow me for a day and make sure i don't stray. 

 

There's the making of a song in that sentence. 

 

The version in Thai could be something about leading the albino buffalo.  The words for rope and albino rhyme.

[talahtnut]

16 hours ago, webfact said:

*They will have to stick to routes where other Thai people do not go. They must not veer off course at all.

Where is it in Thailand that Thais would not go?

Sewage works, Gasworks, haunted houses,

dumps, monkey house, a place of work.

These are now your tourist destinations, happy days.

[HerbyJFlash]

I don’t laugh a lot but this really got me

[Damrongsak]

35 minutes ago, HerbyJFlash said:

I don’t laugh a lot but this really got me

It's like watching an episode of "The Twilight Zone". 

[metisdead]

Some troll posts have been removed.

[meechai]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

They will have to stick to routes where other Thai people do not go. They must not veer off course at all.

These whack jobs have listened to Hotel California one too many times

 

So what is the "routes where other Thai people do not go" called? Falang Road? & only use Kwaai Bridge?

[charmonman]

Maybe they can make a deal with North Korea and open a "travel bubble". Even the Chinese would not put up with this nonsense, but maybe the North Koreans would.

 

There should be a gag order on government officials until they come up with something intelligent to say about this subject.

[RJRS1301]

12 hours ago, Elkski said:

 Why don't we hear about plans to educate the masses and teach better English and pick up the trash and teach people about littering and safe driving?

Oh silly farang ideas will never work, interfering with "culture"

[BobinBKK]

20 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

yes follow me for a day and make sure i don't stray. 

 

A holiday girlfriend perhaps?

[Kleepanna]

15 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Delusional.

if they have a tracking device why the need for a covid minder?....

[Xaos]

This is so dumb its beyond anything. 

 

Theres many viruses out there and they always been and will be there. They just weaponized one as a scare mongering nothing else. Real virulogists scratching thier heads, calling pcr tests hoax... 

[Kleepanna]

Well some where someone is coming up with a plan that will TOP this one!!! Each new plan more outrageous than the last... but im just thinking who or how can they top this?

[Blumpie]

I don't care, put a micro chip in under my skin and track me forever.

Want all my money?  Take it all!  I know I won't get it back!

Oops, been drinking again.  

[hotchilli]

21 minutes ago, Kleepanna said:

if they have a tracking device why the need for a covid minder?....

Opportunities for the unemployed tour guides..

[TERMINATOR3AB]

The   land  of Dreamers  

[Andrew Dwyer]

Who said Thais don’t do sarcasm !!

[Stargeezr]

Hey in just over a month it will be mid November. When does the 

high season start? 45 days will be nearly December, and if Thailand

government and TAT and all the guys and gals do not have their

acts together, it will be 2021, the year of a hope of a vaccine, a year

of a hope that at least 200 thousand people will come to Thailand for

the Winter of 2021/2022. I am beginning to think that the Winter of

2020/2021 will be a complete write off, and barely any real tourists

will come to visit Thailand, the amazing country that was..

Geezer

[TSF]

Are they completely and utterly insane?

 

So what have they offered international tourists so far: 2 weeks of yoga lessons and green chicken curry pizza making lessons while in quarantine, then a ride on the choo-choo train to Hua Hin, now while shackled with a tracking device and followed by a security guard, tourists can go on set routes well away from Thai people. Doesn't it occur to any of them that all sounds like a holiday from hell?

[billd766]

1 hour ago, TSF said:

Are they completely and utterly insane?

 

So what have they offered international tourists so far: 2 weeks of yoga lessons and green chicken curry pizza making lessons while in quarantine, then a ride on the choo-choo train to Hua Hin, now while shackled with a tracking device and followed by a security guard, tourists can go on set routes well away from Thai people. Doesn't it occur to any of them that all sounds like a holiday from hell?

Sadly enough most of the people in governmental offices in Thailand would end up beserk if they went on an offshore holiday and were faced with stupd suggestions like this, but most of them have never been out of Thailand on a holiday in the real world.

[outsider]

On 10/13/2020 at 11:38 AM, webfact said:

*They will have to stick to routes where other Thai people do not go. They must not veer off course at all.

 

*They will have to be followed around 24/7 by Covid minders to ensure they don't stray and are healthy

 

*Go where there are no Thais - what about restaurants, shops etc. run by Thais? Replace them with foreign workers or bar foreigners from entering these shops?

*Covid-minders - new job opportunities for the unemployed and ex-go-go bargirls.

 

Thai authorities - you think they are stupid. Then they open their mouths, and remove all doubts.

 

[Kaopad999]

This is complete insanity.

What an absolutely ridiculous idea.

 

[Kaopad999]

5 hours ago, Kleepanna said:

if they have a tracking device why the need for a covid minder?....

Covid member makes sure the farang does not remove the tracking device?  ????