Popular Post webfact Posted June 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2021 A man rakes the sand on a beach as Phuket gets ready to open to overseas tourists from July 1 allowing fully vaccinated foreigns to visit the resort island without quarantine, Phuket, Thailand June 29, 2021. REUTERS/Jorge Silva BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand lost 550,000 tourism jobs in the second quarter, a private industry group said on Tuesday, as the tourism-reliant economy struggles with a third wave of coronavirus infections. Thailand's most severe outbreak so far started in April and has badly hit domestic spending and travel in the absence of foreign visitors. The outbreak has shut 36% of tourism businesses temporarily and 4% permanently, the Tourism Council of Thailand said in a statement, citing a survey that also showed tourism confidence hit a record low in the current quarter. Hotel occupancy rates dropped to 10% in the second quarter from 20% in the first quarter, the survey showed. Since the pandemic, more than 2 million tourism workers lost their jobs, including 400,000 in the first quarter of 2021, council president Chamnan Srisawat told a briefing. The industry is hoping the opening to vaccinated visitors to the resort island of Phuket from Thursday, a pilot project, will bring in some foreign tourists this year. The arrivals this year are expected to be a fraction of the nearly 40 million foreign visitors in 2019 before the pandemic, he said. "Most tourism operators only have cash flow for up to six months. If the outbreak can't be controlled and the economy does not get better by then, more businesses will be closed down," Chamnan said. Separately, the cabinet on Tuesday agreed to delay debt repayments for state banks' debtors until the end of the year to help households and smaller businesses affected by the outbreak. It also approved financial assistance of 7.5 billion baht ($234 million) for employers and workers hit by recent restrictions to curb the spread.($1 = 32.05 baht) (Reporting by Satawasin Staporncharnchai; Writing Orathai Sriring; Editing by Martin Petty) -- © Copyright Reuters 2021-06-30 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 5 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post webfact Posted June 29, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2021 Thailand’s tourism confidence plunges to all-time low ahead of reopening By Suchat Sritama Thailand’s government targets three million foreign tourists this year under a phased reopening plan Thailand’s tourism confidence index in 2Q2021 fell to a 10-year low of 11 points as the ongoing pandemic hampered recovery and dampened business confidence, but the Tourism Council of Thailand (TCT) is optimistic of a rebound when the country reopens to international visitors this week. According to a TCT statement, only 50 per cent of tourism businesses remain open, while 36 per cent have closed temporarily, and four per cent have shuttered permanently. In addition, tourism businesses which remain open said they only have enough funds to last them another six months. However, once foreign tourists start returning to Thailand and domestic travel resumes, the index should rebound to 33 points in Q3 this year, predicts TCT president Chamnan Srisawat. Full story: https://www.ttgasia.com/2021/06/29/thailands-tourism-confidence-plunges-to-all-time-low-ahead-of-reopening/ -- © Copyright TTG ASIA 2021-06-30 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Geoffggi Posted June 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2021 53 minutes ago, webfact said: Tourism Council of Thailand (TCT) is optimistic of a rebound when the country reopens to international visitors this week. Misty optic more like ..............LOL 11 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Fex Bluse Posted June 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2021 Once again, not sure how the government could not anticipate this outcome when many of us idiots here on the TV did. Better countries started working a year ago to relocate tourism workers they knew would be displaced for several years. One begins to feel sorry for the Thais at some point 27 1 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post meechai Posted June 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2021 (edited) Well that is only 550,000 jobs! Dont they know in a recent NIDA Poll of 1311 Thai's 75% (983 Thai's) said no tourist ???????? NIDA poll: Nearly three quarters of Thais DO NOT agree with reopening Thailand to foreign tourists Edited June 29, 2021 by meechai 1 1 2 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Elad Posted June 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2021 Its ok, 441,000 jobs selling virtual drinks were created. 3 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ralf001 Posted June 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2021 Decent numbers, I thought the totals would be much much higher. 7 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post inThailand Posted June 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2021 These numbers don't reflect what I see everyday, there alot more closed than open and many shop houses are empty and not rented. Are they putting lipstick on a pig? 29 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post GeilGeilertzen Posted June 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2021 All seems to be paved out for great scams and price hikes to get back the “lost money” by all operators. I wouldn’t like to be a genuine long time tourist in Phuket once it gets going again. Cause it won’t be cheap! 16 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sezze Posted June 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2021 16 minutes ago, inThailand said: These numbers don't reflect what I see everyday, there alot more closed than open and many shop houses are empty and not rented. Are they putting lipstick on a pig? 43 minutes ago, Ralf001 said: Decent numbers, I thought the totals would be much much higher. This are the numbers for Q2 2021 . Most jobs have been lost already , as they say +2 million so far . It is a lot of people and only for Q2 2021 . I am not there , and i havent been since December 2019 ( unfortunate , Covid lockdowns started 1 week before i was flying there in 2020 ) . But i have been following the situation pretty close as much as i can . 550k for a industry that has been ravaged for over 1y already, is a lot . Idk how many people still officially work there , and how the "sandbox" will effect the numbers , but tbh the way the Thai infection numbers aren't under control , i do not see it changing just yet . If Thailand had the numbers like 6 months ago , together with the "sandbox " and the vaccination going along , i think would be much more successful , but atm , i am even afraid i can/am willing to come in October . I think i am not alone in that case , and the 1st numbers of the "sandbox" are showing the same thing . 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ChipButty Posted June 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2021 Im assuming that is just workers in the hotels, what about all the support staff and the suppliers...........? more than double that amount 18 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ozz1 Posted June 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2021 that figure doesn't reflect the real story of black cash money and brown envelopes its only the people registered what about the flow on affect to others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OKF Posted June 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2021 all posters here should know that the numbers now have been the numbers always…they never tested, they never had cases…. now they test and get numbers and cases so what is the big fuzz about it here? Nothing new really for everyone that can deal with the result of 1+1………. 5 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Skeptic7 Posted June 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2021 Couldn't happen to a more inept, confused and conflicted, deserving place. 7 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ttrd Posted June 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2021 RE - The Tourism Council of Thailand (TCT) is optimistic of a rebound when the country reopens to international visitors this week. * Wonder why the expression "reality break" came to my mind .... ???? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ralf001 Posted June 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2021 16 minutes ago, OKF said: all posters here should know that the numbers now have been the numbers always…they never tested, they never had cases…. now they test and get numbers and cases so what is the big fuzz about it here? Nothing new really for everyone that can deal with the result of 1+1………. The big fuzz now.... Other countries may not allow their citizens to come and enjoy the "sandbox" Given the steep incline the covid counter is currently travelling. That can't be good for what little remains of the decimated tourist industry. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mrfill Posted June 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2021 About a month ago I remember reading how Thailand's unemployment rate was 1.96% and that the number unemployed was 760,000. Now they say that 400000 jobs were lost in Q1 and 550000 in Q2. Do the tourist board boffins work out the unemployment figures? https://www.reuters.com/article/thailand-economy-jobs-idUSL3N2NB0QX 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 10baht Posted June 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2021 Only real solution vaccines for everyone , and cut out the hoops one has to jump through to get here. Oh, and not flip flop for 1 whole year. Quote Quote No more idiot schemes 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ronaldo0 Posted June 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2021 Pretty sure that amount and many more were lost long before !! Just about every Thai person I know has lost their job ,the odd one is on half wages etc for same weekly working hours just to keep a job in a dead restaurant/bar . 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kiwikeith Posted June 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2021 1 hour ago, GeilGeilertzen said: All seems to be paved out for great scams and price hikes to get back the “lost money” by all operators. I wouldn’t like to be a genuine long time tourist in Phuket once it gets going again. Cause it won’t be cheap! Don't hold your breath, delta is expected to become the dominant strain of covid in Thailand in the next few months , but do not worry just rush out and get vaccinated, according to the Thai newspaper we dont' name today. If I were a fortune teller I would say a new India is on the horizon. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ttrd Posted June 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2021 18 minutes ago, Ralf001 said: The big fuzz now.... Other countries may not allow their citizens to come and enjoy the "sandbox" Given the steep incline the covid counter is currently travelling. That can't be good for what little remains of the decimated tourist industry. My sad guess is that the sandbox will be filled up to the brim with emptiness and loneliness than anything else this summer 3 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ralf001 Posted June 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2021 1 minute ago, ttrd said: My sad guess is that the sandbox will be filled up to the brim with emptiness and loneliness than anything else this summer And many will beg/borrow/steal to make their way to Phuket in the hopes of finally earning an income again... they will be bitterly disappointed when they arrive. 7 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hotchilli Posted June 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2021 Prayuts complete mishandling of the infections since New year, and his lack of vaccine planning has cost the nation billions. You could say Thailand was just hanging in there with subsidised domestic tourism, but that all changed in the last 3 months... even Thais are scared of this outbreak and are mostly careful about their movements to other provinces. Even now half way through the year at best 10% have had a first jab, and less than half of that their second, nationwide it's even less as certain hotspots are being given priority, starving other areas. 8 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Blumpie Posted June 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2021 3 minutes ago, ttrd said: My sad guess is that the sandbox will be filled up to the brim with emptiness and loneliness than anything else this summer It's ridiculous to even consider anything otherwise. Take this example: In most countries you are told to avoid all unnecessary travel. All unnecessary travel. Tourism is not necessary travel. When you go against advice like this your insurance skyrockets (which you must have). Plus COVID insurance. Plus this plus that plus maybe you will sleep on a cardboard box or spend your holiday in a country where the health care system is admittedly crumbling. These people are completely and utterly nuts. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dialemco Posted June 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2021 I expect since last year actual lost jobs is far higher when taking into account the unregistered workers it is truly a tragedy which unlikely to get better until tourists can return without restrictions the Phuket Sandbox restrictions will not encourage many visitors probably mostly those wanting to enter Thailand without quarantining in Bangkok but it is still very expensive and inconvenient and without quarantine in name only. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cyril sneer Posted June 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2021 What happened to the success of domestic tourism that saw hotels almost fully booked during the first and second waves? 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post robsamui Posted June 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2021 (edited) Things that everybody ought to know about Thailand's numbers and statistics. 1. No Thai 'spokesperson' actually knows the reality of the figures or statistics that they quote. They're handed numbers which have been prepared by somebody else. 2. When a Thai 'spokesperson' isn't given any figures or statistics, they make them up, trying to sound as optimistic as possible. 3. The people who compile the figures or statistics for the Thai 'spokespeople' usually believe that they are accurate, even though they know nothing much about figures or statistics. These figures or statistics are usually ordered to be biased for effect and are frequently inaccurate. 4. Often the people who compile the figures or statistics couldn't care less, as they will be handing the figures or statistics on to somebody else and there's no way of proving them right or wrong, so they just make them up. CONCLUSION: Absolutely no figures or statistics produced or stated by a Thai 'spokesperson' are accurate and can be believed, even if they genuinely think that they are. Edited June 30, 2021 by robsamui 15 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ralf001 Posted June 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, Blumpie said: It's ridiculous to even consider anything otherwise. Take this example: In most countries you are told to avoid all unnecessary travel. All unnecessary travel. Tourism is not necessary travel. Some countries require one to apply for permission to even leave !! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Blumpie Posted June 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2021 1 minute ago, Ralf001 said: Some countries require one to apply for permission to even leave !! I know! These guys are crazy. Even Chinese won't come. If they dare do so they will be blacklisted when they get back. If you need your passport renewed there they won't do it. Seriously, these guys have absolutely no idea what they are doing. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Trujillo Posted June 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2021 There were 550,000 tourism jobs left to lose? 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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