Phuket Freedom Day is December 1st! Island will welcome 3.5 million tourists spending 210 billion baht in four months

[Kopitiam]

32 minutes ago, Anant72 said:

Wow! Bullions upon bullions are going to rain on “<deleted>et” on Freedom day! Isn't that fantastic? Who is the genius who came up with these figures? Can't those clowns in the tourism sector just shut up? They have been ridiculed so many times already!

It's the new normal.

[Bluespunk]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

December 1st was a realistic Freedom Day, he suggested.

 

On this day it has been predicted:

 

Everyone will be vaccinated

 

100% of businesses will be open

 

Everything will be back to a new normal

 

International travel will be back to normal with foreign visitors who have been double vaxxed arriving freely

 

In fact the target for Phuket is to get 50% of its 2019 tourists back.

 

There will be 3.5 million visitors in the four months from December through March, is the hope.

 

And best of all they are set to spend big helping the economy get 210 billion baht by the end of March 2022.

Pigs will fly

 

Satan will ice skate to work

 

Santa will turn up in person

 

Everyone will have their own personal rainbow replete with pots of gold at the end

[Aussieroaming]

Insane in the Brain......if only these total muppets were held accountable by their bosses for making these nonsence posts. Unfortunately though, their bosses (the chief muppets) are too busy making nonsense posts of their own. 

 

 

[AhFarangJa]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Surachai Chaiwat, former head of the Phuket Chamber of Commerce said that Phuket was a shining example for the world and such a beautiful place. 

Yes Surachai, such a shining example.............

  

  

[steelerian]

These guys need to put the crack pipe down, just for a brief moment.

[aussiexpat]

Only in Thailand would you see these two news articles released on the same day lol

[bangon04]

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

And Santa Claus is real... he's due in on the 25th.

Hope He is already starting work on his COE requirements.......

[KarenBravo]

2 hours ago, Guderian said:

The population of Phuket is around 400,000, while the population of Thailand is 70 million. So 200 infections in Phuket daily is the equivalent of 35,000 new cases a day nationally, almost three times today's number. By all rights, they should be putting the island under the strictest lockdown yet, but instead they want to create the perfect conditions for the virus to spread even faster. It reminds me of the Great Songkran Travel disaster that the government decided wouldn't hurt things back in April, which helped to spread Delta around the country.

It's far larger than 400,000 people. I would venture double that.

The 400,000 are those Thais that have registered as Phuket citizens. The vast majority of Thais from elsewhere in Thailand, almost never give up their home province registration, so are not counted.

[Anant72]

18 hours ago, AhFarangJa said:

Yes Surachai, such a shining example.............

  

  

Yes, beautiful, isn't it! What a nice sandbox to play in!

[Anant72]

19 hours ago, Anant72 said:

Wow! Bullions upon bullions are going to rain on “<deleted>et” on Freedom day! Isn't that fantastic? Who is the genius who came up with these figures? Can't those clowns in the tourism sector just shut up? They have been ridiculed so many times already!

Sorry for misspelling Phuket.

[ArcticFox]

100 cases / day
"Shut Everything Down.  Danger danger danger. Shut it all down!!!"

13.000 cases / day
"Open it all up.  Open open open.  Money money money!!!"

 

[ArcticFox]

20 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Pigs will fly

 

Satan will ice skate to work

 

Santa will turn up in person

 

Everyone will have their own personal rainbow replete with pots of gold at the end

Anddddd............... 
All Thais will be able to grow 6 cannabis plants at home like any other Thai herb.

[billd766]

21 hours ago, WhiteBuffaloATM said:

Highly Positive Necessary Step. Builds upon existing Sandbox Experiment & Learned Lessons.

Oct & Nov “abandoned” as Continued Extended Sandbox Experiment ? 

Clearly Targeting Potential Xmas / New Year (December Holiday Break) Tourists.

Govt. again had no need to indicate/ guess possible tourist numbers. EXPERIMENT Only.

 

Yet Predictably virtually all Member Posts are Negative, Critical or “ Funny”…….

Hideous Attitude. Embarassing for All Expats. No Wonder we are fairly Universally Loathed Here.

Why is it embarrassing for all expats? Not all of us live near tourist areas and not all of us are universally loathed. You may be but many of us live in rural Thailand with our Thai families and are liked and respected there.

 

Many of us have lived in Thailand for many years and in some cases for decades and get feedback from our Thai families and friends. They are not happy with the resources being diverted from their provinces to prop up a few greedy rich Thais who do nothing for the country but rob it blind.

 

 

[ThailandRyan]

On 9/6/2021 at 10:33 AM, connda said:

Edward Deming had a lot to say about the total ineffectiveness of sloganism.
"Freedom Day."  Yeah that worked so well in the UK.  How about Hopium Day.  It would be more apt.

Everyday with the predictions seems to be "Ground Hog day"

[AhFarangJa]

4 hours ago, Anant72 said:

Yes, beautiful, isn't it! What a nice sandbox to play in!

A cats litterbox is probably closer to the mark.

[oldcpu]

23 hours ago, Guderian said:

The population of Phuket is around 400,000

No ... 400,000 is wrong. Simply wrong.

 

The population of Phuket is closer to 600,000 (including children age 12-18) and quite possibly closer to 650,000 if all children included.

 

 

[Scott]

Off-topic post reported and removed.  Please refrain from personal commentary on other members.

 

[gim12]

he should dream bigger and predict 5 million tourists a week spending 20 million baht a day, why lie a little when you can lie a lot