4 minutes ago, Isaan sailor said:

Don’t look now, but western currencies sinking, as the mighty Baht keeps rising.  Perhaps all this vaccine talk is just a smokescreen...

There were some technical reasons as to why the baht was going down until now.

 

Many foreign companies were repatriating money from dividends earned on investments in Thailand, and paid in March/April.

 

From now on, the baht could we'll go back to where it was a few months ago...

There will be hardly any tourism this year, domestic or international, all my Thai friends have said they are going no where because of the worry over their jobs and the risk of getting infected.

They are all sacred as hell.

50 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:

 

Here's an outsiders view looking in.

 

1.There is no tourism to have an impact on anything by any re-tightening.

2. The slow roll out is nobody to blame except Prayut and Co.

3.There was no political sense in allowing people to travel during Songkran.

4.By not allowing private institutions and organizations to ' source ' their own vaccines has led to the damage to the economy because hardly anybody is vaccinated.

5. The lousy options of vaccines and at present only Sinovac, in any quantities ( least popular vaccine choice ) is directly down to the choices made by the government themselves.

6. Unlike nearly every other country, Thailand has no back up plan in the event of problems with AZ roll out. Now, they say they will allow private organizations but they then have to go through the time consuming registration and approval process.

7. I do not want to start using the pathetic cliches of ' brown envelopes ' it's predictable nonsense, however, it is very easy to mess the public around when all the bloated, fat bellied generals sit there pontificating when they are already vaccinated.

8. You and your government Prayut are to blame now for deaths due to your arrogance and incompetence. The ' blame '  starts and stops at your door.

 

Too much back slapping due to the slow number of cases in the pandemic last year led to laziness, tardiness and complete complacency.

 

You should be ashamed but no doubt you will blame others and ' face ' it out.

 

Very well put together post, my only disagreement would be with No. 6 on your list, the private organisations are assisting the government with its vaccine rollout, ie: procurement ( these are not hospitals unfortunately) distribution, storage, locations for people to get jabbed, and manpower, ie: people to administer the jabs.

 

Apart from that a pretty good assessment of the complete clusterflok that is currently Thailand.

2 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Has the pic' been photoshopped with Lego building to the right .. 

And the one on the left just falling apart.

December if they are lucky and the numbers will be woeful I imagine !

Tourism could be hit by re-tightening of travel restrictions, experts warn

who'd thunk that ???? I've obviously missed my vocation in life, GT financial wizard ????

 

 

 

3 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Has the pic' been photoshopped with Lego building to the right .. 

I thought it was one of the Tetris blocks ????

8 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

The US has just stopped inbound travel from India.  Also a big factor for the world is the fact that India produces 70% of all vaccines for the world.  That will definitely stop countries from meeting the vaccination projections as well.

https://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-about-70-of-vaccines-used-around-the-world-are-made-in-india-2820585

I think the flights delivering vaccines will not suffer from these bans .

Just now, Nanaplaza666 said:

I think the flights delivering vaccines will not suffer from these bans .

You might only need to buy a economy or business class ticket for you vaccine ????

Brilliant analyst. 

Who could have thougt restrictions will impact tourism? 

 

Where is the other dude, that thai virologist? 

I am worried about him.

 

 

11 hours ago, rabas said:

Not just that.

 

India COVID crisis could derail world economy

Yes sir....folks forget how much cheap slave labor is in India....and if that little bad boy creeps over to china...then we will party like its 1929!!!!

11 hours ago, webfact said:

 

“We expect the fundamental impact to be limited since Thai tourism is now tied to the domestic market,” the analyst noted

 

@sandyf I found someone who agrees with you about the Thai Domestic Tourism!!! ????

So, this is why TAT is working from home. They do not want to show their big lying faces to the people of

Thailand  or to the expats and others.  The truth is out.  No tourism for Thailand until 2022, at the earliest.

Forget the million or so promise of tourists, when you include the 14 day quarantine. Maybe a few hundred

thousand, determined travelers would be the expected numbers.   Thailand, it is time to join the rest of the

world and get your population vaccinated as fast as possible. Give the people some choices of vaccines as well.

  Let the private hospitals get in Pfizer and Moderna for those who want to pay for it and receive the shot.

     Good luck to all.

Geezer

So those 6 million Brits that was suggested will come this year will now be numbered at 6 or up to 5 million depending who in the TAT or government you talk too.

 

I am a big believer in optimism but be real and not talking utter rubbish, which this lot have done for over a year now on tourism.

Edited May 2, 20215 yr by Laughing Gravy

Well at least it's keeping the analysts in a job predicting common sense outcomes of the current situation.

13 hours ago, Taboo2 said:

Yes sir....folks forget how much cheap slave labor is in India....and if that little bad boy creeps over to china...then we will party like its 1929!!!!

Yes praying that all the worst variants rip through China. Fingers crossed.