Songkran 2021: Travel DOWN Spending DOWN while trade minister warns don't put prices UP!

[webfact]

Picture: Naew Na

 

Naew Na reported that the Tourism Authority of Thailand were predicting a far quieter Songkran this year as the latest wave of the pandemic takes hold.

 

Their assessment is that spending will be 20% down on previous predictions with 9.6 billion baht turnover. 

 

Songkran would not be "lively" according to the TAT.

 

Meanwhile travel is down too with 4,160 tickets being returned to bus companies. The highest proportion of those were travellers who were intending to go to the north east for the holidays. 

 

Meanwhile Thailand's trade minister called for those who take advantage with sharp practices to be fined and jailed.

 

Jurin Laksanawisit - DPM and trade minister - has ordered authorities nationwide to investigate closely any illegal practices.

 

The public can call 1569 24/7 to report illegal activity or go direct to his ministry.

 

Examples are 10,000 baht fines for those who do not advertise prices properly for food and drink and jail terms of 7 years and fines of 140,000 for price gouging. 

 

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[Thaiwrath]

Travel DOWN, Spending DOWN.........................................................................sadly, COVID UP, due to poor government decisions !

Edited April 11, 2021 by Thaiwrath

[ChipButty]

Obviously doesn't apply to the hospitals............? Even the government hospitals are at it in Phuket for a covid test

[colinneil]

17 hours ago, webfact said:

Jurin Laksanawisit - DPM and trade minister - has ordered authorities nationwide to investigate closely any illegal practices

Well Jurin you need to start looking at government officials first, more illegal practices going on there than anywhere else.

[Excel]

"Meanwhile Thailand's trade minister called for those who take advantage with sharp practices to be fined and jailed."

 

Meanwhile it is ok for hospitals whom no doubt his parliamentary colleagues have shares in, to charge exorbitant prices for covid tests !!! 

 

[rasmus5150]

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Spending DOWN while trade minister warns don't put prices UP!

 

If there are no tourists to cheat/scam, then go ahead and rip off your fellow countrymen...

[RichardColeman]

6 hours ago, rasmus5150 said:

 

If there are no tourists to cheat/scam, then go ahead and rip off your fellow countrymen...

Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe the authorities will take more action from angry Thais than foreigners who will be gone in two weeks

[KhunBENQ]

On 4/10/2021 at 1:31 PM, webfact said:

travel is down too with 4,160 tickets being returned to bus companies.

4160, wow, what a collapse!

I see empty bus stations ????

 

And from the videos: the convoy of vehicles on Mithraphap is still moving(!) ????

Edited April 11, 2021 by KhunBENQ

[hotchilli]

On 4/10/2021 at 1:31 PM, webfact said:

Examples are 10,000 baht fines for those who do not advertise prices properly for food and drink and jail terms of 7 years and fines of 140,000 for price gouging. 

Have a walk around my neck of the woods, 80% of food outlets never have a price list up.

[AhFarangJa]

Wife went to buy a replacement hand gel bottle this morning...........last week 55 Baht..........Today.................250 Baht...........She told them to shove it.............

[xylophone]

18 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

Wife went to buy a replacement hand gel bottle this morning...........last week 55 Baht..........Today.................250 Baht...........She told them to shove it.............

Did it fit!!!!

[Bkktodd]

Songkran should have been postponed or cancelled....

[ChipButty]

10 minutes ago, Bkktodd said:

Songkran should have been postponed or cancelled....

How long did it take you to think of that?

[cyril sneer]

Tomorrow’s article will be road fatalities down 

[Albert Zweistein]

6 hours ago, AhFarangJa said:

Wife went to buy a replacement hand gel bottle this morning...........last week 55 Baht..........Today.................250 Baht...........She told them to shove it.............

Not polite.

[Golden Triangle]

1 minute ago, Albert Zweistein said:

Not polite.

Eh ?? What on earth do you mean.

[Albert Zweistein]

1 minute ago, Golden Triangle said:

Eh ?? What on earth do you mean.

That's the question, to raise the price or to tell her to shove it.................................. Your choice ! Or up to you as they say in the LOL.

[Golden Triangle]

1 minute ago, Albert Zweistein said:

That's the question, to raise the price or to tell her to shove it.................................. Your choice ! Or up to you as they say in the LOL.

But you said " not polite " ? Which is why I questioned your response.

 

Admittedly it wasn't polite, but I think I, my mrs & and a lot of other people would have said the same, when this thing first hit us many people tried to cash in by upping the price of masks, gels and other safety products.

 

I apologise if I misread your reply but it wasn't difficult to be honest, you need more than 2 words to avoid confusion. ????

[Albert Zweistein]

2 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

But you said " not polite " ? Which is why I questioned your response.

 

Admittedly it wasn't polite, but I think I, my mrs & and a lot of other people would have said the same, when this thing first hit us many people tried to cash in by upping the price of masks, gels and other safety products.

 

I apologise if I misread your reply but it wasn't difficult to be honest, you need more than 2 words to avoid confusion. ????

No need to apologise, by saying not polite I was just joking as this phrase is quite common in Thai circles. See it as sarcastic.

[Golden Triangle]

3 minutes ago, Albert Zweistein said:

No need to apologise, by saying not polite I was just joking as this phrase is quite common in Thai circles. See it as sarcastic.

Fair enough ????

[bangon04]

"and jail terms of 7 years and fines of 140,000 for price gouging"

 

does that include the prices of AZ vaccines and PCR tests?

[bangon04]

2 minutes ago, bangon04 said:

"and jail terms of 7 years and fines of 140,000 for price gouging"

 

does that include the prices of AZ vaccines and PCR tests?

and I definitely did NOT mention Siam BioSciences......

[actonion]

RE; advertiising prices, we were in a Thai restaurant reading the menu, i asked  my wife had she any idea as to why no prices for the meals  were shown, she asked  one of the staff, the reply was" its up to who is ordering"..i took that to mean one price for Thai's, another price for foreigners... we left ..

[EricTh]

I've noticed the food of prices at restaurants have gone up a little. Is it just my place or everywhere else in Thailand?

 

Edited April 16, 2021 by EricTh

[EricTh]

On 4/14/2021 at 10:46 AM, actonion said:

RE; advertiising prices, we were in a Thai restaurant reading the menu, i asked  my wife had she any idea as to why no prices for the meals  were shown, she asked  one of the staff, the reply was" its up to who is ordering"..i took that to mean one price for Thai's, another price for foreigners... we left ..

 

This has been a common practice for many restaurants in tourist areas. The prices on the English/Chinese menu is for foreigners. Nothing strange about that.

 

If the menu is all in Thai, then it is Thai price.

 

[Meat Pie 47]

On 4/12/2021 at 12:57 AM, Albert Zweistein said:

Not polite.

why? its a rip off.