Labour Minister and TAT discuss tourism stimulus measures - foreign tourists may benefit

 

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Daily News reported that Thailand's Labour Minister Supattanapong Phanmeechao had met with the chief of the Tourism Authority of Thailand Yuttasak Suphasorn Friday to discuss measures to stimulate tourism both internally and for foreign visitors. 
 
They are presenting a three point plan to the CCSA, Thailand's Covid-19 committee.
 
Supattanapong said he wanted the TAT, Thai Airways, the hotel association and the tourism council to offer one day travel packages to foreigners who have completed their 14 day quarantine. These would involve road trips and flights. 
 
Secondly the minister wanted to see restrictions eased on the "Let's travel together" (Rao thiaw duay gan) domestic travel stimulus, that is due to end on January 31st. This would entail more hotels being added to the scheme including those on the tax database of the revenue department. 
 
He also advocated discounts on flights of 40% at source like they get for staying in hotels. Presently refunds are given after the full fee has been paid. 
 
He also wanted matters made easier for senior citizens to take part in the scheme and has asked the TAT to promote more seminars.
 

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9 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

offer one day travel packages to foreigners who have completed their 14 day quarantine.

so incredibly typical here; little-to-no understanding of what tourists need or want or will endure

Of course helping to bail out Thai Airways anyway they can as well.

14 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Supattanapong said he wanted the TAT, Thai Airways, the hotel association and the tourism council to offer one day travel packages to foreigners who have completed their 14 day quarantine.

Take the train, Thai airways will provide bags and donuts. 

Free tracking "digital wristbands"?

Every week another idea. Another scheme. Just let people I with an O visa issues.by consulates worldwide. They have money too and most of the time apartments, houses and Thai friends.

But they still dont realise that there are no planes flying into Thailand for tourists.  We can't even get out of Australia !

16 hours ago, YetAnother said:

16 hours ago, rooster59 said:

offer one day travel packages to foreigners who have completed their 14 day quarantine.

so incredibly typical here; little-to-no understanding of what tourists need or want or will endure

Tourism authorities here are perpetually obsessed with package tours - they don't seem to grasp that the vast majority of tourists these days prefer to travel independently. 

17 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Supattanapong said he wanted the TAT, Thai Airways, the hotel association and the tourism council to offer one day travel packages to foreigners

He might need to elaborate on that a bit.

Fantastic prevailing arrogance with the statement "foreign tourists may benefit". 

First and foremost the Thais would, should and will benefit; the foreign tourist - recently called dirty farang, alien etc. - has the choice. Given the tremendous mess in paperwork, physical personal appearance at a Thai embassy to rubber-stamp paper, the quarantine, the governmentally supported dual pricing, combined with the arrogant racist behaviour of some Thais - go figure! 

Good luck with all that; you're all daydreaming or smoking seriously good weed in all your offices - the losers are Thai people due to their own people at the helm and in all those temples of bureaucracy and corruption  .......... 

4 hours ago, jaiyen said:

But they still dont realise that there are no planes flying into Thailand for tourists.  We can't even get out of Australia !

 

Better tell all your mates and anyone who will listen, to open their wallets and spend spend spend.

 

Australia won't be letting anyone out of the country until all that Jobseeker and Jobkeeper money gets churned back into the economy.

 

Take that to the bank and put it in your (near) zero paying interest account.

No visitors from the UK for a month, at least, to Thailand or anywhere else for that matter. I imagine similar restrictions apply in other European countries with stricter lockdowns now in force. All very sad.

Can I put this in simple lay mans terms, 14,10 or even 1 day of quarantine means no International Tourists.

 

At the moment Europe is virtually shutdown and all but essential travel is not allowed, however when it is, the first sentence above applies. Just get your heads out from where the sun does not shine and set a date for all travellers to be welcomed back and, open up all the boarders, it goes without saying this must include the DIRTY Virus carrying Farangs. You will then see a very slow recovery of the tourist industry which is going to take years to get anywhere near where it was before, but it will allow people who have invested over the years to return to their homes and family's.

 

That's my Sunday rant!!!!! 

Could it be an idea to scrap all sorts of visas and instead introduce pay to stay? 

 

1000 baht pr month maybe and have cards that could cover 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. 

 

Could that attract people that would stay longer than the normal 30 days, but without the hassle to apply for visas constantly? 

 

Or is that just a stupid idea? 

TAT should try for once to place themselves in the shoes of a long and short term staying foreigner tourist  and from that perspective develop a suitable SIMPLE staying option product.????

4 hours ago, hotchilli said:

He might need to elaborate on that a bit.

Easy.

On the bus/off the bus, follow the one with the flag, on the bus/off the bus.

If this 3 point plan doesn’t work tomorrow they’ll have a 4 point plan.  

1 hour ago, Cali farong said:

If this 3 point plan doesn’t work tomorrow they’ll have a 4 point plan.  

See my previous 

on the bus/off the bus follow the one with the flag eat shrimp on the bus/off the bus.

4 points. ????????

good luck on that.. bring out the black cat bones and mystical mantras to summon up the gods of the airlines

The £21trillion cost of Covid: IMF warns the pandemic will cause 'lasting damage' to living standards worldwide

By James Salmon for the Daily Mail

Published: 22:04, 13 October 2020 | Updated: 18:25, 30 October 2020

the Covid crisis will blow a £21trillion hole in the world economy and inflict 'lasting damage' on living standards, the International Monetary Fund has warned.

After the total death toll from the pandemic climbed above a million victims, the Washington-based watchdog yesterday spelled out the devastating global impact of the virus on the economy.

In its latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF predicted the crisis would leave financial scars for years while the recovery would be 'long, uneven and uncertain'.

It also forecast the total loss in output triggered by the pandemic will hit $28trillion (£21trillion) by the middle of the decade.

This is a dent worth more than the size of the US economy, the largest in the world.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-8836039/IMF-warns-Covid-cause-lasting-damage-living-standards.html

 

On 10/31/2020 at 9:01 PM, rooster59 said:

to discuss measures to stimulate tourism both internally and for foreign visitors. 

Item 1 - Owning your own house 100%.

With 1000 people dying each day in the USA, they will not be flying to many places

for at least 2 more years, if they can get the virus under control in that time.

   Europe seems to be getting locked down in many places, so it would seem that

flying from there to Thailand may not be what Thailand will want either.  I have

not heard of many flights from Canada to Thailand happening, as I have some friends who have

still not left to spend their Winter  there. I have a feeling that TAT can try all the stimulus they

want to and it will not be much of a success. 

Geezer

18 hours ago, khunjeff said:

Tourism authorities here are perpetually obsessed with package tours - they don't seem to grasp that the vast majority of tourists these days prefer to travel independently. 

Two very simple reasons.

1: package tourists movements are controlled, and the authorities are essentially a military government, and thus believe all movements should be controlled or at least monitored.

 

2: package tourists spend their money in the places those organising and providing the package decide. In the current circumstances, and (as the "new normal" for the probable future) the packages are provided by those with "influence" with these authorities.

 

It is largely irrelevant waffle anyway. Even if there were any tourists they will not jump through the hoops or pay the money demanded before they are allowed onto the package!

 

I wonder when the penny ( satang?) Will drop for those who have invested so much "influence" in this new style of tourist industry?

... foreign tourists MAY benefit...

15 hours ago, 3NUMBAS said:

The £21trillion cost of Covid: IMF warns the pandemic will cause 'lasting damage' to living standards worldwide

By James Salmon for the Daily Mail

Published: 22:04, 13 October 2020 | Updated: 18:25, 30 October 2020

the Covid crisis will blow a £21trillion hole in the world economy and inflict 'lasting damage' on living standards, the International Monetary Fund has warned.

After the total death toll from the pandemic climbed above a million victims, the Washington-based watchdog yesterday spelled out the devastating global impact of the virus on the economy.

In its latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF predicted the crisis would leave financial scars for years while the recovery would be 'long, uneven and uncertain'.

It also forecast the total loss in output triggered by the pandemic will hit $28trillion (£21trillion) by the middle of the decade.

This is a dent worth more than the size of the US economy, the largest in the world.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-8836039/IMF-warns-Covid-cause-lasting-damage-living-standards.html

 

And will they send the bill to China? Can I include the millions my family lost?

 

According to some on this forum the big boss has nothing to do with all this. So can somebody explain me what the labor department has to do with tourism and THAI? Before it was the health department than the CAAT. The list of clueless idiots get longer and longer every day.

On 11/1/2020 at 2:51 PM, hotchilli said:

He might need to elaborate on that a bit.

 

One day trips. You spend all your time travelling. Time enough to stand up, stretch your legs at your destination, pay 3000 or 4000 baht for a bowl of noodles and then back to your room.