TAT boss: quarantine remains for 1 day to test all visitors, no going back to old tourism pub scenes

[ChipButty]

1 hour ago, Captain Monday said:

Two weeks away. Expect same as opening of Sandbox. "Nothing Official yet, It has not been gazetteed",  Just fly from Memphis to Seattle wherever no idea if you will get your COE hours before flights. After you buy $1000 worth of PCR tests and hotel rooms for a whole family, you'll be fine. A disorganized shambles where airport staff were learning new rules via emails. We need 3 copies of your certificate of SHABA. "No you don't " Same staff taking pics of every document I have. Do similar again in Doha. Is it a holiday or being extradited on murder charges?

 

This time another government app/website that likely has not even been coded yet, same as COE but for name. Dubious Insurance and prepaid hotels NEVER going away.  Probably, the prepaid tests also. 

 

Sure it will work as well as Thailand Plus? Mooted, mulled, then forgotten by everyone except Thai embassies and the previously mentioned pesky agents trying to deny you boarding.  The rules will change 5 times by Jan 01. By then any hope of High Season 2021-2022 a failed memory.

 

Nobody will take a Thai holiday until they cut this nonsense, only people with serious partners and properties. As for the the "unaccompanied male" no more such shenanigans allowed forget about the bars they wont open for at least 1 more year if ever.

 

The bars are already open in Phuket

[Wiggy]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

TAT boss rules out going back to the old Thai tourism formula of crowded bars and nightlife

RIP Thailand tourism. 

[Gottfrid]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

TAT boss rules out going back to the old Thai tourism formula of crowded bars and nightlife.

Ops! Just lost a lot of revenue there, dude! 50 % sploosh, out the window! When the result comes, there will be a world of hurt for that comment. Probably an inactive post already designed for you.

[hotandsticky]

1 minute ago, Wiggy said:

RIP Thailand tourism. 

 

 

Nope.......................just the beginning.

 

 

Evolve or die..................

 

 

In reality TAT rarely achieve what they want and the bar scene will no doubt be heaving within 3 months.

[Bkk Brian]

Maybe he should tell his buddies at Thai Airways to delete their facebook post promoting quarantine free travel and asking people to book flights now based on that promise. Pretty sure thats fake news and false advertising.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10161322688662293&id=304177952292&m_entstream_source=timeline

[Captain Monday]

4 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

The bars are already open in Phuket

Good news. I was there beginning of July Sweetie in Patong was open then some small one on the beach but i think Sweetie bar got raided by the "vests"

[zzaa09]

24 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

The bars are already open in Phuket

Restaurants and bars have been opened for months at selected provincial locales.

[crazykopite]

These idiots need to wake up Ive never known such a bunch of out of touch clowns there going backwards not forwards 

[JayClay]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

he also suggested that there was no going back to the former tourism market with busy nightlife scenes as Thailand seeks a new tourism following

Ironically the only group of people who would put up with applying for online passes and staying in 1 night quarantine facilities, aside from expats who have yet to return, are mongers who have been starved of p***y for the last two years!

 

None of your "high quality" tourists are going to bother with any of that.

[DrDave]

 

TAT boss rules out going back to the old Thai tourism formula of crowded bars and nightlife. He insists the kingdom is instead pursuing a higher quality, more family-friendly market.

 

So, how did that scheme work out in Phuket, where all bars had been closed and nightlife had been shut down?  From July 1 through September, they got approximately 20% of the foreign tourists that TAT had projected, and international flight arrivals were operating at average passenger loads of 50% or less.

Doesn't seem like a successful long-term strategy to me.

[4MyEgo]

So was this all a plan to kill those businesses that the tourists and expat locals come for ?

 

Who will compensate all of those businesses that will be forced to shut down and those that did because of the "pandemic", and what about all of the staff that worked at those venues, lots of them depended on that money to feed their families. Then you have the flow on effect taxi, drivers, tuk tuk, drivers, motorbike taxi riders and so on and so forth.

 

The problem with these guys is that they live in a different reality, have secure jobs, good wages and pensions to look forward to. If they wanting to clean up Thailand's image of bars, go go girls clubs and the like, the reality will clearly show them that they once again farked up as they will see numbers decline like there is no tomorrow and the.

 

I remember someone saying we don't need or rely on tourism, then the pandemic hit, and they have been screaming ever since, with this idea and that idea and how many tourists we will get this year and the next and sandbox this and sandbox that, we are about to witness the biggest lose of face on this one, but as the Thai saying goes, "up to you".

 

You just can't help dumb.

[nobodysfriend]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

no going back to the old model of Thai tourism with crowded pub scenes as his agency plans a shift to a higher quality, higher spending, family orientated sort of tourism in the future.

The worst possible decision again .

Family resorts ? There are many in many countries , more close than Thailand .

The sex industry was an attraction for many , even families ...

Thailand will never ' walk again ' with all the bullet holes in it's feet ....

[gk10012001]

3 hours ago, JCP108 said:

So, "no quarantine" means one to two days of quarantine and the COE remains but with a name change. 

Siiigh.  I will believe things when I see them.  So now a tourist pays the high rate for one night, instead of the weekly or monthly rate at the hotel they really wanted to stay at? 

 

  And the article says things are conditional on the areas achieving 70% vaccination rate, and that the National average is 33%.  Priority or not, that 70 % vaccination rate is a number I would not believe gets reached even if the "official" Thai answer said it was.  And doubling the vaccinatino rate between now and November 1, is well..  unlikely to be polite and not invoke various anatomical parts of a big hairy moose..

[gk10012001]

High Quality eh?  OK.  But if you are going to charge high quality prices, you need to provide high quality things.  Take a survey of how many people happily swim in the water off of Pattaya Beach, list the proper chemical and bacteria status test results daily

[herfiehandbag]

1 hour ago, Captain Monday said:

Nobody will take a Thai holiday until they cut this nonsense, only people with serious partners and properties. As for the the "unaccompanied male" no more such shenanigans allowed forget about the bars they wont open for at least 1 more year if ever.

Take out the "unaccompanied male", take out the "backpackers", take out the "budget holidaymakers", oh and take out the Chinese 'cos that whole ballgame is changing for Chinese domestic political and economic reasons; there is not an awful lot left. A few of the illusory Indian Billionaires perhaps perhaps?

 

I am not wealthy, and have little real insight into what drives the wealthy into selecting a holiday destination, but I am pretty sure that being fawned upon by the world renowned gouging Thai establishment, manifestly intent on separating them from as much of their wealth as possible, against a background of shuttered venues and frankly grotty manufactured "attractions" will not work!

 

[Excel]

40 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

Wouldn’t mind seeing the bulldozers going to WS after all what will be the purpose of these didco-bars. Make it Neo Pattaya..????????

I would rather see them in Bangkok to bulldoze the place to the ground along with the idiots in the administration who say one thing one day and the opposite the next. 

[Pravda]

Now I understand why TAT wants to invite Andrea Bocelli 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ftpjtm]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

According to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) Governor Yuthasak Supasorn, in recent days, there will still be a mandatory one day quarantine requirement for all visitors while he also suggested that there was no going back to the former tourism market with busy nightlife scenes as Thailand seeks a new tourism following. 

Thanks for the clarification. I'll stop my search for airline tickets. 

[JayClay]

6 minutes ago, JayClay said:

Ironically the only group of people who would put up with applying for online passes and staying in 1 night quarantine facilities, aside from expats who have yet to return, are mongers who have been starved of p***y for the last two years!

 

None of your "high quality" tourists are going to bother with any of that.

The more I think of this the more it reminds me of those profiles you see on dating sites with fat, ineliegant, jobless single mums with a ridiculous list of qualities they are searching for in a man "must be well groomed, honest, faithful, have a good career and be able to support me, non smoker and drinker etc etc..."

 

Well TAT, sweetheart, you're in no position to be so picky and if you want tourists, you'll have to make do with whatever tourists are actually interested in you!

[Renzo]

45 minutes ago, RachaRob said:

Family Friendly? So they want to rip off whole families now?

Of course. Did you forget just two weeks ago they announced a 500THB charge per person per entry... So a family of five visiting Thailand now gets an EXTRA THB2500 fee thrust upon them even before they can escape the airport!! These idiots are so far removed from reality I doubt they even know what year it is.... 

[aussiexpat]

Great, so instead of a taxi to my covid free condo in Pattaya, I have to get a hazmat taxi to an ASQ in Bangkok for 1 night of prison ????

[asiasurfer]

Not even talking about ceo or all the other bs... As long as the "old tourism pub scenes" won't return, tourists won't return. Good luck with that... At the moment Thailand doesn't deserve any foreigners spending their cash here. 

[clivebaxter]

2 hours ago, ukrules said:

He just announced the death of Tourism in Thailand. It's over.

 

He's far too dumb to realise it just yet but that realisation will come, probably some time in January 2022 once everyone who's conned into coming here realises that it's one of the worst places to go for their winter trip.

 

RIP, final nail, etc, etc.

Hardly, before covid about a third were Chinese and they were not in crowded bars and looking for prostitutes', There will still be plenty of the tourist market left without the bar and brothel brigade, plenty of other sex destinations for them to pollute elsewhere in the world.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

TAT boss rules out going back to the old Thai tourism formula of crowded bars and nightlife. He insists the kingdom is instead pursuing a higher quality, more family-friendly market

If they stick to that Thailands dead in the water, that's what 90% of tourists came for.

Pattaya, Bangkoks Red-light areas, Samui, Phuket etc etc... they offer nothing else.

[morrobay]

16 minutes ago, gk10012001 said:

High Quality eh?  OK.  But if you are going to charge high quality prices, you need to provide high quality things.  Take a survey of how many people happily swim in the water off of Pattaya Beach, list the proper chemical and bacteria status test results daily

What needs cleaning up is the trash, stray dogs, lowlife local males on motorbikes on sidewalks, and the water. Could be a tourism bonanza -. But thainess will always prevail unfortunately. Going to be awhile before I get in this water in the bay.

 

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/swimmersitch/faqs.html

 

 

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

and a suggestion that both alcohol and nightlife may be allowed after December, comes news that stronger controls will be maintained.

So tourists coming on holiday cannot have a beer with their meal, cannot go to a bar or club, or even sit on the beach with a snack & cold beer... 

Sounds very enticing.

[clivebaxter]

 

 

59 minutes ago, Wiggy said:

RIP Thailand tourism. 

Sex tourism, something no country on earth really wants to to earning money from

[2long]

Who in their right mind would come here for a HOLIDAY of usually no more than 14 days, with the genuine risk of being imprisoned for 14 days because of the potential positive PCR on arrival?!

Surely, the negative PCR before take off is enough. The risk of a second PCR is too high.

[Renzo]

6 minutes ago, clivebaxter said:

Hardly, before covid about a third were Chinese and they were not in crowded bars and looking for prostitutes', There will still be plenty of the tourist market left without the bar and brothel brigade, plenty of other sex destinations for them to pollute elsewhere in the world.

Only it is well known the Chinese are in group tours, taken only where their buses take them with little opportunity for ordinary businesses to interact. Their meals and places of interest are pre-arranged and the majority of their 'free' spending on the trip is at corporate-run duty-free malls near the airport. You can have as many Chinese tourists as you like – but they won't rescue the small hotels, eateries, beachfront services, etc, etc, that lower-income families rely on.  

[ftpjtm]

10 minutes ago, clivebaxter said:

Hardly, before covid about a third were Chinese and they were not in crowded bars and looking for prostitutes

So when he said "higher quality" tourists he was referring to Chinese tour groups?