Empty streets and strict regulations deter tourists from visiting Thailand

[Hans Johnson]

Patpong was dead before Covid. 

[NoshowJones]

On 2/23/2022 at 10:58 AM, mokwit said:

If there is one group of people I have no sympathy for it is Patpong Night Bazaar vendors.

Why do you say that? Any countries markets in tourist areas will have their undesirables and cheats.

[NoshowJones]

On 2/23/2022 at 11:21 AM, connda said:

Unfortunately - no they don't.

They are purposefully keeping, "Thailand’s tourism ecosystem closed" and purposefully "haven’t reopened."

Bloomberg hasn't gotten the memo:  "Only rich, well-heel tourists and investors wanted.  All other foreign commoners will need to find more accepting and friendly countries to spend their tourism dollars.  Thailand doesn't want common foreigners any longer."

 

 "Thailand doesn't want common foreigners any longer." Change that to "The soldiers government doesn't want common foreigners any longer."

Would a democratically elected government want all kinds of tourism back in order to reinstate thousands of peoples livelihoods?

Think back to the bustling tourist areas in Bangkok and Pattaya before the country was stolen in 2014, then maybe you will have the answer.

[NoshowJones]

20 hours ago, John Drake said:

Can't we just go back to the way things were, say, ten years ago, in 2012?

There is the very odd AN/TV poster who would not. But all the many sensible posters would.

[Harveyboy]

20 hours ago, swm59nj said:

You have to be pretty desperate to visit a country with a high Covid rate. Just for the sake of drinking cheap booze and cheap fun.  

booze ain't so cheap here now..i can drink cheaper in Europe..as for the  girls same overpriced 

[John Drake]

3 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

There is the very odd AN/TV poster who would not. But all the many sensible posters would.

Who couuullld that be?

[NoshowJones]

2 minutes ago, John Drake said:

Who couuullld that be?

Naming them would be against forum rules.

[arithai12]

On 2/23/2022 at 10:53 AM, webfact said:

the vendors are gone.

 

Thailand wants to get them back

I thought it was tourists that Thailand want to get back.

Anyway, I don't think that empty Patpong necessarily equates no tourists in Thailand.

Covid or not, times have changed, people find a lot on the internet, from T-shirts to girls.