Tourists to Thailand to wear smart tracking devices

[overherebc]

9 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Wonder what the Yacht anchor fee is for thecYSQ location 

Quite large if you drop your anchor on a power or other cable, and don't think about feeding the fish. 

[AlfHuy]

3 hours ago, DJBenz said:

Alternative State Quarantine

Golf Quarantine

Villa Quarantine

Area Quarantine

Digital Yacht Quarantine

Next week, Taxi Quarantine. Simply stay in your Taxi from the airport for three days and two negative tests before you're allowed to check in to your hotel.

Pattaya Soi 6 quarantine

Soi Cowboy quarantine

Nana quarantine

 

[jvs]

1 hour ago, 2 is 1 said:

Do you think you can swim in yacht quarantine, NO WAY! 

I will bring my own pool!

[djayz]

Be monitored while on holidays. The fun just never ends! Where do I sign up for this?! 

[Albert Zweistein]

6 hours ago, DJBenz said:

Alternative State Quarantine

Golf Quarantine

Villa Quarantine

Area Quarantine

Digital Yacht Quarantine

Next week, Taxi Quarantine. Simply stay in your Taxi from the airport for three days and two negative tests before you're allowed to check in to your hotel.

You forgot airplane quarantine.

[Meat Pie 47]

Well might as well go to North Korea

[RichardColeman]

10 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Tourists will have to wear the tracker at all times. The data will then be analysed prior to the traveller disembarking their boat.

I think whoever derives these things is a fan of Douglas Adams, I'm sure up next it will be, quote.

Multi-planetary tourism problems

‘…the fabulously beautiful planet Beta-selamin is now so worries about the cumulative erosion by ten billion visiting tourists a year that any net imbalance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete whilst on the planet is surgically removed from your body weight when you leave: so every time you go to the lavatory it is vitally important to get a receipt.

[jethro69]

Good they have smart devices. Can't remember when I run into a smart official the last time?

[StefanBBK]

This is just a drop in the Ocean... how many of the annual 40million tourists arrived by yacht? 

As long as there is any quarantine, majority of tourists will stay away. 

[ThailandRyan]

12 minutes ago, StefanBBK said:

This is just a drop in the Ocean... how many of the annual 40million tourists arrived by yacht? 

As long as there is any quarantine, majority of tourists will stay away. 

It is about quality tourists and those with Money.  They feel that these types are super wealthy and will pay to play and stay.

[ChipButty]

12 hours ago, Captain Monday said:

A brilliant idea. How many yachts arrive monthly under normal conditions?

Usually quite a lot obviously not this year, From March is normally when they leave especially the sailing boats something to do when the winds change, Where I live at Nai Harn in the south of Phuket we have many boats parked up in the bay this is the time they leave and sail south.

This year has seen very few

[Artisi]

5 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

It is about quality tourists and those with Money.  They feel that these types are super wealthy and will pay to play and stay.

Wishful thinking, they will sail by on their way to a friendlier berth. 

[Laughing Gravy]

Another stupid idea that shows how those at the TAT are out of touch with reality. So these yacht tourists will be confined to their yacht's.

Where will these tourists spend their money that Thailand will benefit from? Besides a 'parking fee' what else. These from the TAT are not the brightest lamps in the street.

I can't wait for the next idea that will keep my obliques exercised for the week.

 

[sikishrory]

I'm in yacht quarantine now off Phuket and wearing one. I don't see the big deal. It recoreds temperature, blood pressure? and heart rate from what I can see

[ChipButty]

I think TAT missed the boat 

[ThailandRyan]

4 minutes ago, sikishrory said:

I'm in yacht quarantine now off Phuket and wearing one. I don't see the big deal. It recoreds temperature, blood pressure? and heart rate from what I can see

Get in the speed boat or small watercraft and go for a spin.  Curious to see if a Navy destroyer is dispatched for not staying on the Yaht, yet no other folks around.

[newnative]

Another bad headline.  Should have been more specific.  Thailand to track visitors arriving by yacht to Phuket.  

[berrec]

[hotchilli]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Tourists in Phuket who arrive on yachts will be required to wear a smart wristband to monitor them

Somehow I don't think wealthy yacht owners who feel like going land-side for a tour or a meal will want to be tagged like a criminal... 

[hotchilli]

10 minutes ago, newnative said:

Another bad headline.  Should have been more specific.  Thailand to track visitors arriving by yacht to Phuket.  

It was the first line of the post... why be so picky?

[Cadan]

Must be a lot of people arriving by boat in the past and/or in the future ????. 

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

 

"Welcome super wealthy yacht people. There is just one thing we have not talked about yet..."

Tagged like a criminal they won't be coming anyway.

[mrfill]

Just expecting to hear estimates of 6 million yachts expected this year......

[chaihot]

22 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Tagged like a criminal they won't be coming anyway.

Could be worse ... Thailand could copy China and require ANAL SWABS of all foreigners.  That would be apropos.

[dogfish180]

To be ordered from Lazada prior to arrival! 

[Neeranam]

14 hours ago, kotsak said:

They are really trying hard to put as many nails on the tourism coffin as they can, aren't they? 

They are trying the opposite. 

[Neeranam]

27 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Tagged like a criminal they won't be coming anyway.

Not true. My friend would certainly wear one of it meant he could China here for a holiday. 

A good idea. 

[ThailandRyan]

12 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

They are trying the opposite. 

But in the end it is always the same end result, not many want to play the games to come here for a two or three week vacation.  Different with the longer term people who would sacrifice a week or two knowing they were here for a longer term.  Yacht folks tend not to stay in one place for weeks on end unless it is near the end of the season and they want to escape the bad weather out on the big pond.

[bobonzo]

the website will fail ala 90 day report

[kcpattaya]

Back to the same nonsense again?
It will not happen.
Nor will there be "meters" on motorbike taxies - nor will it be prohibited to transport people in the back of a pick-up.
Yet we will continue to sell alcohol ONLY from 11:00 – 14:00 & 17:00 – 00:00 - And Gambling as well as prostitution is not allowed.