By Na-ark Rojanasuvan

    

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Ministry of Tourism and Sports has set goals for penetrating various markets in Saudi Arabia and attracting Saudi travelers to Thailand.

 

Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn plans to bring representatives from the private sector in fields such as tourism and hospitality to attend a roadshow in the Middle Eastern kingdom.

 

The Thai government expects to attract at least 200,000 Saudis to Thailand and generate 20 billion baht in revenue this year.

 

Previously, the Saudi government only allowed its citizens to visit Thailand for medical treatment and official business and governmental affairs. Pleasure visits were strictly prohibited.

 

Thailand welcomed nearly 37,000 Saudis in 2019, generating about 3.2 billion baht in revenue.

 

The administration has sent a draft memorandum of understanding on tourism cooperation to its Saudi counterpart.

 

The draft agreement involves policies that will simplify the process of visa issuance. It also extends how long Thai pilgrims can stay in Saudi Arabia for tourism purposes after completing their hajj pilgrimage.

 

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TAT will predict outrageous numbers; the 200,000 probably relates to February alone and then on to a Million by May, 5 Million by August and 20 Million by end of the year generating 300 Billion Baht !

With all the alcohol & night life area closed they will be really attracted to Pattaya etc now!

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22 minutes ago, DezLez said:

With all the alcohol & night life area closed they will be really attracted to Pattaya etc now!

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Have to see how the Thais like their shops and petrol stations being closed down 5 times a day to  go pray.

200,000 Headbangers coming. BEWARE!

They don't drink any alcohol or dip into brass.

 

Just what this regime is looking for, and they don't mind a bit of authoritarianism either. 

 

Winner winner, Halal chicken dinner. 

 

I guess the Doctors and Hospitals need more money.  These are the reasons why most Arabs come to Thailand.  Def not the Beach , beer and Temples.   

4 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

They don't drink any alcohol or dip into brass.

 

Just what this regime is looking for, and they don't mind a bit of authoritarianism either. 

 

Winner winner, Halal chicken dinner. 

 

You have probably never been on the causeway to Bahrain on a Thursday night. Rammed solid with Saudis going over for a weekends debauchery.

5 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

They don't drink any alcohol or dip into brass.

 

Just what this regime is looking for, and they don't mind a bit of authoritarianism either. 

 

Winner winner, Halal chicken dinner. 

 

The Saudi's Baht is just as good as the farang's Baht!????

Just now, AhFarangJa said:

You have probably never been on the causeway to Bahrain on a Thursday night. Rammed solid with Saudis going over for a weekends debauchery.

Well I have, but let us say as close to debauchery as Bahrain offers.

1 minute ago, jacko45k said:

Well I have, but let us say as close to debauchery as Bahrain offers.

LOL. it is all there, just not on show....

Feb arrivals average 5,600 per day .... so 200,000 Saudi's arriving is roughly 550 per day - 10%. 1 in 10 will be a Saudi ... I doubt it.

2 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

LOL. it is all there, just not on show....

The name of that hotel with a floor closed off escapes me.......

1 hour ago, webfact said:

government expects to attract at least 200,000 Saudis to Thailand and generate 20 billion baht in revenue this year

The government has only approved marijuana @ 0.2 THC.

But the TAT boys seems to have source offering a better product.

 

18 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

They don't drink any alcohol or dip into brass.

 

Just what this regime is looking for, and they don't mind a bit of authoritarianism either. 

 

Winner winner, Halal chicken dinner. 

 

Also when the Saudi's are in town always talk to them face to face or you might get a surprise.

10 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

The name of that hotel with a floor closed off escapes me.......

You mean the Grace Hotel? That's where they use to stay and hang out in the coffee shop on the bottom floor.

2 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

You mean the Grace Hotel? That's where they use to stay and hang out in the coffee shop on the bottom floor.

We talk of Bahrain. I think you mean Bangkok.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The Thai government expects to attract at least 200,000 Saudis to Thailand and generate 20 billion baht in revenue this year.

Nuff said.

1 hour ago, trainman34014 said:

TAT will predict outrageous numbers; the 200,000 probably relates to February alone and then on to a Million by May, 5 Million by August and 20 Million by end of the year generating 300 Billion Baht !

Inshallah ????????

This will all go swimmingly until suddenly the Green Emerald Affair bursts into the news, and after that they'll never speak to each other again, lol.

Any members of the old Uxbridge Club in Pattaya?

I look up to the sky and I see images of pies and pigs, everywhere.

59 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

You have probably never been on the causeway to Bahrain on a Thursday night. Rammed solid with Saudis going over for a weekends debauchery.

The causeway with the Goal in the middle to allow the returning drunk Saudis a place to sleep it off before reentering Saudi!

Probably more Thais will visit Mecca to spend their Baht so who will be the winner?

1 hour ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

They don't drink any alcohol or dip into brass

 

555 - did you ever see Malay moslems crossing the border at Padang Besar into Thailand, getting drunk instantly and dipping their nicotine- stained fingers into anyone who did not escape quickly?

First I thought they want to check the Chinese then it was the Indians now it’s the Arabs amazing Thailand Thai tea

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The Thai government expects to attract at least 200,000 Saudis to Thailand and generate 20 billion baht in revenue this year.

Predictions from this guy have proved in the past to be just that.

Tourism Ministry Sets Targets for Entering Saudi Markets, Attracting Visitors.

????The headline sounds a bit bazaar

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

The name of that hotel with a floor closed off escapes me.......

California?????