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Samui Plus: Only about 10 foreigners per day are visiting island


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4 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

You raise the hurdles high enough, and few either want to or are capable of jumping that high. 

 

In some places it is known as self sabotage or shooting oneself in the foot, a particular speciality of Phiphat, the sabateur in chief. 

 

Tourism is now gone forever. They killed the industry. Shot it in the heart. Trillions of dollars in infrastructure wiped out. Permanently. Sure, five years from now we might see 3-5 million tourists annually. Maybe. 

My fear for Thailand is greater than this- I agree with what you say but a vacuum will suck in all kinds of rubbish - so imagine a tsunami of $0 Chinese tourists ......

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Obviously the TAT is full of the brown stuff, but they missed the golden opportunity of letting remote workers base themselves on what are (relatively) covid free islands for a year like Dubai or others.

 

Instead, dreams of short term tourists, when all there really is, are people who are trying to come here and eek out a longer term stays and extensions. Many forced to go under the farce of education, volunteer or other facades with no certainty.

 

Should have leaned into it. Right now, in Asia there are no options for that. Instead, this disappointment.

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51 minutes ago, Scrotobike said:

I agree - so I surmise mostly they are not tourists but people here on business/visiting family etc. 

I know of some who want to come and help their bar love here. Perhaps it would be better for everyone just to send the money... ????

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1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

You raise the hurdles high enough, and few either want to or are capable of jumping that high. 

 

In some places it is known as self sabotage or shooting oneself in the foot, a particular speciality of Phiphat, the sabateur in chief. 

 

Tourism is now gone forever. They killed the industry. Shot it in the heart. Trillions of dollars in infrastructure wiped out. Permanently. Sure, five years from now we might see 3-5 million tourists annually. Maybe. 

2 years back to normal

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5 minutes ago, KarenBravo said:

The reason why everything has been made so complicated, is that the government's starting position is 'every foreigner wants to come to Thailand for their holiday'.

That's why they think they can put up as many hoops as they want and everyone will jump through them.

The actual idea that some of these hoops are actually convincing potential tourists to go elsewhere for their holidays, has never even entered their tiny little minds.

Bureaucrat's Wet Dream .... ego stroking predictions ......

only 10 willing to jump the hoops ,  ....  pithy  !!  only in Thailand   !!

or ...  not   ??

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3 hours ago, Shuya said:

The Thai goverment still thinks its a priviledge to come here, when in reality it's quite the opposite. 

And STILL getting worse. The weakening baht is a strong indicator. Thailand is sinking while the government buys subs and plans on a space program.

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3 hours ago, webfact said:

No foreign tourists at all arrived from the Phuket Sandbox with the total remaining at 257. 

Erm - there are no 'promised' flights from Phuket to Samui.

Some guests recently had to travel in three separate mini vans to get to Samui. A 12 hour journey.

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5 hours ago, webfact said:

So far just 279 tourists have gone directly to Samui and 11 to Phangan and 13 to Koh Tao. A total of 302 from July 15th to August 11th. 

 

Just a few more than ten a day. 

 

Fifteen arrived on a Bangkok Airways flight on Wednesday.

 

No foreign tourists at all arrived from the Phuket Sandbox with the total remaining at 257

Basically a flop then.

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