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It’s expats, not tourists that are visiting Thailand: Business leader


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6 hours ago, puck2 said:

I recognize only one reason:  making money out of the pandemie.

You really think every country in the world ruined their economy so a couple of companies can make a few tens of billions? ????

 

The economic damage is well into the trillions world wide. Forbes put it at $24 Trillion back in February this year so it's far more than that.

 

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2 hours ago, ukrules said:

You really think every country in the world ruined their economy so a couple of companies can make a few tens of billions? ????

 

The economic damage is well into the trillions world wide. Forbes put it at $24 Trillion back in February this year so it's far more than that.

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billionaire-wealth-covid-pandemic-12-trillion-jeff-bezos-wealth-tax/

 

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9 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

Well.......that's not how it works here. 

No one freely campaigns as an elected PM, almost are deliberately selected or appointed in the usual manipulated manner by club members.

I know exactly how it works here I knew before I posted my response I should have put a emoji to it otherwise in general people don't it is said in humor.????

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8 hours ago, KhaoYai said:

Don't worry, in the coming days he'll be accused of Paedophillia, fraud, etc. and his businesses will be visited by the police who will no doubt find hundreds of violations of non-existent laws.  What's the point in anyone running for PM when the outcome's known before the election?

Said in humor!  like I told the other poster. I agree but I forgot to add the Emoji!  " The squeeze will be on "  does that ring some type of bell?  that means pretty much all the stuff you just mentioned!

 

A few years back at MP, got on the Bangkok Post and did an interview he basically said to Thai women if you want a better life marry a foreigner along with the more patriotic the more stupid! There after the guy was squeezed gone out of the picture most likely sitting in a rocking chair?????

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19 hours ago, Confuscious said:

Something strange in all this.
There are no tourists and the hotels are empty due to the Pandemic.
But if you try to find a hotel in Pattaya or Jomtien via Booking.com or Pagoda.com, everything is FULL!!!!
 

Perhaps many, virtually all even, have placed themselves in suspended animation, temporarily stopped trading. Easier to claim you are full and not taking bookings than to close down and then go through the hassle of relisting if/when you start up again?

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19 hours ago, robert888d said:

Finally someone speaking the truth. I have lots of friends in England ,who would have come for a genuine holiday but  were put off by the all the hassles of the pass system and have planned to go elsewhere for Christmas and the New Year. There are too many clueless people making up different rules and regulations week after week.

That's what happens when you have an unelected goon posing as a PM.

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Thanet Supharothatrangsi, chairman of the Chonburi Tourism Business Association, echoed what people online have been saying for weeks if not months. 

 

The gentleman is appealing to the government on behalf of entertainment business owners in Pattaya . He is not in with the in crowd because otherwise he would be using other channels . He must be aware of the government plans to transform mainland Thailand , redevelop Pattaya and to concentrate the entertainment trade to Phuket . He will be at risk , along with others , of losing big money and this statement is his last roll of the dice . The government should at least be compensating businesses for loss of income due to their prohibition laws .  

                To those who think the government have shot themselves in the foot , I have no doubts that they know exactly what they are doing along with the effects it is having on folks who make a living from the tourist trade . It would be better for all if the Thai government came clean and shared their plans with the nation . However that would drive up the values of closed down business premises . As it stands the values of property in Pattaya must have fallen big time and the vultures are circling .

 

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4 hours ago, ukrules said:

You really think every country in the world ruined their economy so a couple of companies can make a few tens of billions? ????

 

The economic damage is well into the trillions world wide. Forbes put it at $24 Trillion back in February this year so it's far more than that.

 

I don't think that every country in the world has destroyed their economy to allow a few favoured people to make money from the pandemic, no of course not.

 

I do think that here in Thailand, groups within the " influential" have manipulated the pandemic to make money, with no care for the consequences. These manipulations, in my opinion, include: procurement supply and provision of vaccination, the potentially ( they thought) lucrative  provision of quarantine and insurance, the opportunity to clear away large areas of the existing tourist industry to allow a rebuild in the style they wish to see ( Sihanoukville style casino operations perhaps) together with real estate speculation, the ever present search for new opportunities to "shake down" small business and the ingrained desire of officialdom to boss people around because they can.

 

These "programmes" are of course often contradictory. That is a result of the almost total self interest driving these groups, who don't pause to consider the effects on their colleagues let alone the rest of the population.

 

The result of a government placed in, and sustained in, power by a variety of competing influential parties, which neither care about nor are remotely accountable to the people. That accountability has been driven from the country's life in the last two decades.

 

The result is an utter mess.

 

 

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5 hours ago, ukrules said:

You really think every country in the world ruined their economy so a couple of companies can make a few tens of billions? ????

 

The economic damage is well into the trillions world wide. Forbes put it at $24 Trillion back in February this year so it's far more than that.

 

@Ukrules; sorry this is a misunderstanding. Maybe I didn't make it clear, that my remark

 

[quote]I recognize only one reason:  making money out of the pandemie.[/quote]

 

was related to Thailand. When you read the details of my comment you will recognize it.

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Nobody in his right mind considers Thailand for a vacation as long as other countries offer more-common-sense approaches once it comes to PCRs, CoEs/Thaiand Passes, non-quarantine quarantine massively overpriced while served crappy cold food in plastic containers at equally inflated prices by staff dressed in transparent garbage bags ........

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11 minutes ago, zaZa9 said:

I just heard on Phuket Extra that some bright spark officials are insistig all retaurants and cafes are now to stop serving alcohol 2pm till 5pm ! Hard to comprehend the stupidity.

And did they say why they propose this.... what is the problem it is causing?

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15 minutes ago, zaZa9 said:

I just heard on Phuket Extra that some bright spark officials are insistig all retaurants and cafes are now to stop serving alcohol 2pm till 5pm ! Hard to comprehend the stupidity.

That was always the rule it was just never enforced, I am told in CM it is enforced 

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