Chinese tourists will be spending up to 400K each in their short time in Thailand, TAT chief

[Lilyofthevalley]

Chinese Business / government folk buying cheap real estate / hotels in Thailand can be the reason to do quarantine prison and still spend such amounts... no one in their right mind would come for holiday to be subjected to isolated confirment when they have a negative covid test pre flight. Humiliation 

[mac1970]

Great, so we can expect to see radical decline in the numbers of Chinese tourists as 99% are not able to spend 400 000 Bath? Those who can stay behind walls of 5-star luxury hotels? 

[Blumpie]

Pathetic!

[Mike k]

13 hours ago, Maverell said:

Firstly, why is a tourism chief wearing a uniform, secondly does anyone believe a word TAT say?

They need to stop thinking that Chinese tourists are the best thing since sliced bread and take their blinkers off.

 

I know more than 39 westerners who used to spend way more than 400k when they used to visit as tourists. Me being one of them. 

Cause he's a military flunky 

[Marco100]

???????????????????? LOL

[daejung]

14 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Every single one of the 33 has a government official escorting, with a calculator. 

May be the wristband can tell it ???

[Salerno]

As undoubtedly the spokesman is talking out of his proverbial the main takeaway I'm getting from this thread is that the old "us expats should be looked after better as we bring in more money than tourists" is also undoubtedly ballocks based on the incredulity shown here.

 

 

[Albert Zweistein]

A laugh a day keeps the doctor away !

[Edwin Cameron]

Absolute garbage..! do Thai people really believe these fools that pick numbers out,then give them to the Thai people as the truth.

[mikosan]

Complete and utter bull****

 

[meechai]

Yeah 400k baht from the folks that won't even pay the 2baht to use a market restrooms instead crapping in the ChiangMai moat ????

[LomSak27]

21 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand told Channel 7 that the group of Chinese tourists that arrived from Shanghai and are now visiting the seaside after passing through a 14 day quarantine would be spending between 300,000 and 400,000 baht each.

 

That is going to be a lot of dried durian strips, mackerel tins & mama, packed in those spinner suitcases. 

[Derek B]

22 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Chinese tourists will be spending up to 400K each in their short time in Thailand, TAT chief
 

Image: Channel 7

 

The governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand told Channel 7 that the group of Chinese tourists that arrived from Shanghai and are now visiting the seaside after passing through a 14 day quarantine would be spending between 300,000 and 400,000 baht each.

 

They will be here for a month in total.

 

Yuthasak Suphasorn said there were 39 of them.

 

This was roughly the originally reported number and different to other reports that suggested there were 33, notes Thaivisa. 

 

The tourists were the first group on the STV (special tourist visa) and arrived in Bangkok where they underwent the two week quarantine at a luxury hotel. It was unclear whether the cost of their quarantine was part of the governor's assessment of their spending power.

 

Yuthasak said it was just a matter of a few days before the next group of more than 100 tourists from Gwangzhou are released from quarantine.

 

He said that people need not worry about them - they are Covid free and like Thai returnees have gone through all the necessary measures.

 

Source: Channel 7

 

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Is the Tat Chief related to the Public Health Minister.

 

[Disillusioned farang]

What a stupid statement ! Don’t these people ever get bored with making themselves look Like total dumbasses?

 

They really haven’t worked out that the average Chinese tourist comes on a package tour and does not spend as much as the average farang on holiday ? 

[tinca tinca]

2 hours ago, meechai said:

Yeah 400k baht from the folks that won't even pay the 2baht to use a market restrooms instead crapping in the ChiangMai moat ????

is this why it is so coloured ???

[bkk_bwana]

23 hours ago, Maverell said:

Firstly, why is a tourism chief wearing a uniform,

All Thai government employees have uniforms. Typically they are worn on Mondays, special occasions and quite often for announcements.

[drenddy]

I suggest THAI Government should make an official FB page for these chinese tourists, with the great leader as admin, where they post the receipts for all the stuff they will purchase.

[Keesters]

Show me the ???? withdrawl slips. I don't believe a satang of it. 

[SupermarineS6B]

Ha ha........ It's one of the usual suspects spouting the party line........ When the people realize that this individual and his mates are flogging the country to their not too distant family they'll wind up in the next Som Tam dish.....  and rightly so............. 

[TonBrow]

Wow! The average Chinese person is much richer than the average westerner. Who know?

[Marcel woods]

lol lol ye on a monopoly board maybe 

[sncoem]

Not the kind of Chinese that I always meet, sharing the cheapest things that they can buy anywhere they go...

 

[Rancid]

Hmm, so after prepaying in China to Chinese companies for their Chinese airfares, Chinese hotels, Chinese tours and Chinese restaurants they are then going to go out and spend B100,000/week on what? Handbags at Chinese duty free shops?

[mal2018]

On 11/7/2020 at 2:12 AM, Maverell said:

Firstly, why is a tourism chief wearing a uniform, secondly does anyone believe a word TAT say?

They need to stop thinking that Chinese tourists are the best thing since sliced bread and take their blinkers off.

 

I know more than 39 westerners who used to spend way more than 400k when they used to visit as tourists. Me being one of them. 

Most ex-pats don't spend that much in a year ????

[SCOTT FITZGERSLD]

On 11/7/2020 at 2:12 AM, Maverell said:

I know more than 39 westerners who used to spend way more than 400k when they used to visit as tourists. Me being one of them. 

please read carefully. It is 400K a month, sir, not a year !!

[SCOTT FITZGERSLD]

400,000 DEVIDE TO 30 DAYS = 13,333 BAHT A DAY.

Sounds like serious spending gonna be there allright !!!

[AlfHuy]

400.000 Yuan, with a problem. 

 

If you saw the pictures of the first lot of Ch...., none of them looked like they are spending 400k

 

And, didn't they arrive on a budget airline? 

???? ???? ???? 

[Garry]

On 11/7/2020 at 8:55 AM, Thaiwrath said:

 

When will these clowns stop pulling numbers from thin air, he hasn't got a <deleted> clue how much they will spend !

I've seen how much they eat at buffets. Spending big isn't on their agenda for some things 

[Bell1234]

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[Stargeezr]

They must be buying some joint paid place for their relatives who are coming

next, like a condo with lots of roll out cots and sparebeds.  Too much money

for a short time, unless they are buying gold.

Geezer