Tourists to Thailand to wear smart tracking devices

[Lacessit]

I can just see well-to-do yachties lining up to be banded like any common criminal,  subject to a court order for a tracking device.

Don't think there are too many authors of fiction that could make this stuff up.

[raccos21]

They want your money, but at the same time, they treat you like prisoners - with the awful tracking device, etc. I would rather spend my holiday somewhere else or in my own country. This is like entering some kinda alien planet... I wonder, 'who is the mastermind behind this idea?'

[PatOngo]

47 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

My friend would certainly wear one of it meant he could China here for a holiday. 

Can you translate that? Not everyone wants to China!

[SupermarineS6B]

What's next, this one, or this one ?    

[SupermarineS6B]

3 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

AIS?

Sadly i think we're witnessing the same mentality further NW at the moment.........   

[SupermarineS6B]

2 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

Depends on WHO is administering the swab... ????

By the looks of that it'll be with one hand on each shoulder......... Brace yourself !   

[Cake Monster]

I would strap the thing onto a Sea Ducks back.

Let them keep track of that as it goes on its Daily scavenging flights all over the Country.

[Artisi]

17 minutes ago, raccos21 said:

They want your money, but at the same time, they treat you like prisoners - with the awful tracking device, etc. I would rather spend my holiday somewhere else or in my own country. This is like entering some kinda alien planet... I wonder, 'who is the mastermind behind this idea?'

Mastermind, usually infers some type of intellect, it is certainly way-off in this case ????

[SupermarineS6B]

Incredibly the TAT have outdone themselves, i thought the pot was empty ..... 

Anyway i was always taught to not mock the afflicted so i'll leave you with this little piece of advice from the manual....

"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows".  ( Missed out the watches bit ) 

I reckon that just about sums it all up............

[SomchaiCNX]

4 minutes ago, SupermarineS6B said:

What's next, this one, or this one ?    

Just wanted to say the same, when will our Embassies start to issue them preferable with a chip. In Russia it was called KGB, East Germany stasi or before that gestapo.

[Starboard]

Welcome to the land of s̶m̶i̶l̶e̶s̶, s̶m̶i̶r̶k̶s̶ survalance.

[D M G]

Rolex?

[rioD]

How many tourist have yachts and want to sail into Phuket and be monitored for 14 days.  Where's the benefit

[Paul Henry]

One thing we can give the Thai bureaucracy is first place for keeping tourists out of the country. They cry because there are no tourists and a loss of jobs and revenue and then bring in half baked idiotic ideas. If you want tourist back use the "KISS" principle, KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID. 

[robsamui]

Tracking devices? Made in which country?

The last time that Thai officioldom tried out any kind of mass digital device seems to have been the brethalyser, six or seven years back.

The Govt brought in tens of thousands of them but (because they weren't an Android app on a smart phone) none of the police could understand how to work them and kept producing silly results. Then they all turned out to be faulty anyway, so were junked.

These noo-fangled devices aren't made by the same Chinese company are they, by any chance? 

[joe jadore]

16 hours ago, Mavideol said:

and here is the TAT weekly BS, they keep trying and trying.....  at the end always the same word "quarantine" and it will be another failure

Dear Gov boffins, kindly stick that MORONIC idea right up your jumper's!

[wensiensheng]

2 hours 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

If the purpose of the band is to monitor your health, I wonder exactly what it achieves?

 

you are in quarantine, if you get sick you will phone for assistance. If you don’t get sick, you will complete quarantine and go ashore. Either way, a wristband achieves nothing.

 

if the purpose of of the band is to act as a GPS monitor in order to make sure you don’t leave your vessel, I guess it acts as some kind of deterrent against breaking quarantine, but that assumes you can’t just take it off and leave it aboard while you go ashore.

 

sounds like it’s a gimmick to me which serves no real purpose.

[Thaiophil]

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Tourists on yachts will be able to quarantine for 14 days on their vessels offshore. 

The “digital economy expert” seems a tad confused about how yachts work. If the quarantine is completed offshore, then there is no point in a wristband, never mind that there likely won’t be a phone signal.

Thailand killed its own developing charter yacht market years ago by imposing a punitive luxury tax on boats, so all the charter companies moved to Malaysia.  No yotties will come back on this basis.

Why does the Thai media insist on reporting this rubbish which (for once) does not appeared to be linked to TAT

 

[bbbbooboo]

Hmmm... they probably already know where they can stick their tracking devices.... hehe

[robsamui]

And then - after having checked the numbers - it's hardy worth the investment in the tracking devices, especially seeing that there's no rip-off luxury hotel accomodation and food and drinks to be 'extracted' from the victims.

If coming on by air is proving to be a no-go, then logic dictates thst such a minority altenative such as this will be an even worser go - even a non-go.

Interesting to watch the different straw-clutching ways that government departments and spokesmen react to despair. Hard for them to face the life-shattering reality that Thailand is NOT the best country in the world and that people don't want to go there.

Or even for them to grasp that, in the big wide world outside Thailand, nobody is able to travel!

[stigar]

Just get my COE after alot of proof of documents...arrive bangkok 30th march..cost me alot..but i dont care..i dont need a visa..im from norway so i get 45 days incluted quaranten...i thougth that was make it easier..but hell no..proof my qua hotel..proof my incurance..proof my passport..proof this and that..

Anyway now its ok..so far

[Isaan sailor]

They just don’t get it.  The only 14-day quarantine that would have any chance of success:  quarantine in a bar with the bargirls dressed up as doctors and nurses.

[Bradmeister]

International guests or travellers, or Yachtsmen and they're crews.

 

But Stop saying Foreigners already! 

Be clear, be specific. Not Racist. 

[stigar]

6 minutes ago, Isaan sailor said:

They just don’t get it.  The only 14-day quarantine that would have any chance of success:  quarantine in a bar with the bargirls dressed up as doctors and nurses.

i pay 31.000 bath incuted 3 meals and 2 covid tests..another was 222.000 bath

[robsamui]

1 hour ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

AIS?

AlIenS ??
 

[robsamui]

1 hour ago, Starboard said:

Welcome to the land of s̶m̶i̶l̶e̶s̶, s̶m̶i̶r̶k̶s̶ survalance.

Sur-Valance - any relaition to Sir Percival?

[Bundooman]

Thank heavens it's not orange and star-shaped!

[StefanBBK]

4 hours 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.

And a few will do exactly that. Too few however to have no measurable impact on the Tourism Industry.

[Surelynot]

I don't see any reason to be concerned......the chance of this actually working is nil.

[Tug]

huh???thats just dumb are they joking?