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Thai media report on tourism: It's well on the mend - Brits top list of Europeans but weed/Covid worries hinder Japanese


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  On 11/11/2022 at 8:25 AM, Robert Tyrrell said:

Aseannow,

WHAT THE HELL !! DOES WEED have to do with effecting Tourism !!??
Purchase and smoke it if you want or don’t  , Horrible reporting here !!   

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See my post above yours - it's being unknowingly forced on you! ???? 

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It’s really simple expansion of cannabis will cause tourism to boom. Restricting cannabis will cause tourism to fail and at this point any restriction on what they’ve already started allowing would destroy the Thai economy. 

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  On 11/11/2022 at 8:25 AM, Robert Tyrrell said:

WHAT THE HELL !! DOES WEED have to do with effecting Tourism !!??

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Nothing really. This is just the...

 

  On 11/11/2022 at 2:08 AM, webfact said:

the comments of the chief of the Association of Thai Travel Agents (ATTA) Sisadiwat Chiwaratanaporn. 

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who is probably just looking for issues or excuses?

 

Japanese tourists travel to the U.S. and Canada, both with total/partial cannabis legalization, and this hasn't been raised as an issue.

 

Some Japanese authroites have said the chance of a returning citizen being tested and prosecuted are "nil".

 

Singapore has pretty strict rules - use in legalized countries is treated as if the citizen had used cannabis in Singapore - for their own returning citizens, but am not sure if those are really being enforced?

 

This - impact on tourism - could be a deal-breaker, forcing us to a medical-only environment.

 

And the foreign treaty situation was highlighted early on - that cannabis legalization somehow impacts existing treaties - but I've never seen that fleshed out.

 

 

 

 

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  On 11/11/2022 at 8:06 AM, madmitch said:

The list of tourist spots visited is ridiculous. More tourists visit Chachoengsao than Phuket? 

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@madmitch  They must be counting domestic tourists, cuz you're right.  i have lived in Chachoengsao the last year and rarely spotted a tourist there. 

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1. Malaysians 974, 844

2. Indians 572,151

3. Singaporeans 313,792,

4. Vietnamese 269,442

5. Laotians 259,118

6. South Koreans 243,015

7. British 239,761

8. Americans 225,909

9. Cambodians 208,322

10. Germans 189,889

 

Hmm. Not many European tourists. And how many of us that came back and forth were on that list? How many business travelers? Can we trust the TAT? Or Thai Rath? On the mend is quite a subjective analysis. Especially when returning from zero. 

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  On 11/11/2022 at 2:08 AM, webfact said:

The country is well on the way to reaching a ten million target for 2022 even though that would still only be 25% of pre-pandemic levels. 

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Not 10 million tourists.. no way.

Maybe 10M inbound, inclusive of businesses, transiting, and including returning Thais.

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  On 11/11/2022 at 8:42 AM, Mavideol said:

yeah the TAT way is very simple, any NON Thai person is considered a tourist, even the ones transiting are accounted for as tourists...  also included are on their estimates are the laborers/workers from Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia same same  555

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But you forgot deceit 

Posted
  On 11/11/2022 at 8:25 AM, Robert Tyrrell said:

Aseannow,

WHAT THE HELL !! DOES WEED have to do with effecting Tourism !!??
Purchase and smoke it if you want or don’t  , Horrible reporting here !!   

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The "concern" is about it being unknowingly added to food purchases. I misdoubt that the quantity ingested to remain unnoticed to the consumer would show up in a urine test.

That said, if sufficient weed were ingested and the associated euphoria passed off as a natural response to being in LOS, the detection of THC metabolites can persist for weeks.

Get an extension on your visa and only eat from 7-11 pre packaged meals if you think you were slipped a "Maryjane  Mickey" in your pad thai?

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  On 11/11/2022 at 8:42 AM, Mavideol said:

yeah the TAT way is very simple, any NON Thai person is considered a tourist, even the ones transiting are accounted for as tourists...  also included are on their estimates are the laborers/workers from Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia same same  555

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Nevertheless, the evidence on the ground is that numbers are significantly up.

 

Well below 2019 highs and thankfully no Chinese mass tourism.

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