Thailand to target ‘quality’ and first time visitors

[Destiny1990]

Chinese, Indians, Africans, Arabs, etc etc etc and lastly the Farangs. Its good to know our ranking position.????

[Eric Loh]

1 hour ago, kiwikeith said:

A wedding in Walking St, wow just what I dreamed of.

Have you attended or even invited for a Indian wedding? I was invited to attend the wedding of the daughter of the owner of a steel mill in Delhi held in a 5 stars Hotel in downtown Bangkok. It was typical Indian wedding that will spend money to ensure a wedding that will be remembered forever. The immediate family booked at least 20 rooms and close friends and business associates came along too and stayed for next 5 days. Talking to the father, I was told it's common for Indians to come to Bangkok and hold weddings because  of its proximity to India, unparallelled hospitality and value for money. 

[Jack Cook]

A good bit of usual twisted Thai logic. Maybe you need to just be a special kind of stupid to work at TAT. Wonder what they’ll do when the mighty Thai Airways completely fails. Why would anybody even bother with these fools. Lot better and cheaper places to go 

[petertucker48]

Ask the Governor of TAT to get the place cleaned up !

Very rarely have I seen so much rubbish thrown along the roads/ditches.

Everyone has money to buy junk food but it’s all wrapped in plastic (brightly colored and lasts forever !!!)

Poor countries bio de-gradable rubbish !!! 

[Parsve]

Maybe it would be best to find out Thailands entry requirements and other countries exit requirements and how they affect tourists before you start a campaign, but hey, this is Thailand, no brains just wild ideas popping up and implemented, at least for a week or so.

[0815]

4 hours ago, Pravda said:

I'm at chaengwatthana doing my extension right now and just saw a Thai woman fighting with indian over money 

He did probably transfer too much money. She does only want nid noi.

[0815]

Indian wedding bubble hub.

[eastendanto]

Groundhog day meets Alzheimers from TAT

[Rampant Rabbit]

4 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

Meanwhile rich Moldovans are feeling left-out.

 

 

Coming soon 'Rich Tea's"

[TechnikaIII]

20,000 die on the roads each year, not counting the many thousands who die in hospital from road accident injuries. (They have a strange way of counting here.)

No Thai has ever been nominated for a Nobel Prize, let alone win one.

Prayut's people have done nothing except insult foreigners since coming to power. 

From which platform to they espouse such elitist aspirations?

[robert888d]

Every year about 6,000 Indian millionaires leave India to settle in Western Countries. THE MALDIVES is also very popular with wealthy Indians as a holiday destination. 

[racket]

First time visitors are typically the ones, after returning home, that says: “never again”. 

[Pdavies99]

So naive! Have they ever visited India? 3% wealthy and the rest pretty destitute!

 

Dumb as dumb can be!

 

 

 

[talahtnut]

Buy a cheap knock-off Indian passport, a used turban and boot polish

your face, wobble your head from side to side while arguing the price

at immigration.  and walla you're in.

[dunroaming]

2 hours ago, smedly said:

I wish they would stop embarrassing themselves with this nonsense 

 

 

The one coke and 5 straws brigade from India are not going to save Thailand 

 

There is no doubt there are some nice foreign built hotels here but step outside into the filth and garbage and it's a whole different picture from the marble floors of the hotel

 

I have fond memories of the pristine holiday destination in Spain Portugal Greece Italy and generally around the med - you could eat off the footpaths and general infrastructure it is so clean and engineered - absolutely spotless and not a tile out of place 

 

Thailand has had huge tourism income for decades and what did they do with it ?  - stuff it in their greedy corrupt pockets instead of spending it on infrastructure - they only have themselves to blame for the mess

"Tourism" is a massive subject and incredibly subjective.  I can certainly nod along to many of the comments here.  I first passed through Thailand when I was a student on my gap year, although I can't remember it being called that at the time.  In those days my travelling companions (who tended to change from country to country) and I certainly fell into the one coke and five straws category. But that was part of what made Thailand an attractive destination.  Easy to get drugs, cheap booze and food and (at that time) a truly exotic location.  It soon became an absolute must as part of the whole gap year scene.

 

It was many years later that I returned to Thailand and by then I was wearing a very different hat.  It was a business trip with five star hotels with marble floors and courtesy hotel cars.  It couldn't have been more different from my earlier adventure there.  My next trip was a holiday with my then wife and again a different experience.  Beaches played a part, a couple of "cultural" trips and a lot of pampering by attentive resort staff.

 

Eventually when my business meant spending many months of the year in South East Asia, I moved there permanently.  Initially in Hong Kong and then Thailand which was more affordable and very user friendly.  At that point I became an expat and that gives a very different view of Thailand.  You become very defensive about life there (or at least your justification for living there) whilst also moaning and complaining about all the irritating things that make up life in the "Land of Smiles".

 

I also enjoyed many holidays in Europe although I would find it hard to compare that to Thailand.  Living in the UK made holidays in Spain, Italy and Greece an easy call.  Short, cheap flights, good beaches, guaranteed sunshine and inexpensive hotels.  Plus the advantage of just about everyone speaking English.  Admittedly those things can also be found in Thailand (apart from the short flights) but somehow, the 11 hour flight and the fact it offers a very different culture , makes Thailand seem more like an adventure. At least for the first couple of trips. 

 

And I think that is really relevant here.  After those first couple of trips, people will start to wonder if it is worth the more expensive, long flights and associated jet lag.  If you are going to put up with that, do you want to just re-visit  what you have already experienced?  It's a big world and pretty much all of it is accessible these days.  Thailand isn't really exotic anymore and let's face it, there is a Thai restaurant on almost every street in Europe these days so you don't need to go there for the food!

 

So given that Thailand has been the top Asian holiday destination in the west for many decades, it is understandable that the Thai Tourist Board will have to look to new markets and with India and China being the new rising economies, that is a no brainer!

 

 

 

 

[Millcx]

5 hours ago, Thailand said:

Or discrimination even!

Or Even Discrimination!!

 

4 hours ago, djayz said:

Here we go again... How many times have we had this topic? 

First timers = Mugs and the Rich Indian story has been regurgitate before Covid hit the beach … Kids ain’t stupid either .. Cheaper for them to tour Spain or Morocco … TAT do give me the giggles though 

[Jingthing]

4 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

No they want the first timers as they will be easier to rip off than people who have been before and know all of the scams .....................LOL

I was about to say fresh meat doesn't know too much yet but I guess that is redundant.

[sawadee1947]

With those currant entry rules they will have many "First time" visitors?

However, probably these are"Last Time" visitors as well ????

[3NUMBAS]

first timers = suckers for the scammers ?gems and jet skis

[Jingthing]

You couldn't make this stuff up but TAT could and did.

[alyx]

 

First time Tourist targeted all right: They have kept their word prior to publicise it . Kudos 

 

That being said, the seasoned "tourists" would unfortunately not be able to take advantage of this great offer... Mind you they would not come, considering

 

And I am bloody worried as I have to get back any time soon 

[Stoker58]

“Thailand is hoping to tap into the 600 million strong younger generation, which also includes families and Indians wanting to get married overseas”.

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 For a shocking moment I thought they were trying to attract Indian husbands, but then I realised they meant Indians marrying other Indians before going home to India.

[NorthernRyland]

5 hours ago, Pravda said:

I'm at chaengwatthana doing my extension right now and just saw a Thai woman fighting with indian over money 

The future is going to be glorious.

[brucegoniners]

These guys crack me up. Still looking for the bucks, huh?

 

Meanwhile they are alienating all of the people who normally enjoy Thailand.

 

Not smart at all.

 

If I didn't already live here I'd probably choose to travel somewhere else.

[deathstardan]

Year in, year out! 

The same old answers.

[thailand49]

At least they are consistent the leaders it is like part of their DNA!  they don't care even for their own people!

[PETERTHEEATER]

5 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Do you know what kek means?

 

As in " Getcha keks off"?

[PETERTHEEATER]

Thailand to target ‘quality’ and first time visitors

Presumably the 'first time visitors' will replenish the diminishing pool of virgins....

[peter zwart]

Poor Bargirls. Deflation ahead as Indians like to share a girl with the 5 of them for the price of 1.

[dsj]

My sister and her family, who are fairly well and seasoned travellers, came to Thailand about 8 years ago for Christmas (3 Weeks) went to Chiang Mai, Phuket and diving, and they said, that they would never return.