Picture: Siam Rath

 

Siam Rath reported that tourism and sports minister Pipat Ratchakitprakan will present a plan for extended opening hours for entertainment venues from 2 am to 4 am in eight areas at the cabinet meeting today.

 

This was billed by the minister as a New Year gift to the people and stimulating spending by foreign tourists.

 

It will apply to areas in Bangkok, Phuket, Krabi, Phangnga, Pattaya, Hua Hin and Koh Samui.

 

In addition Phase 5 of the Rao Thiaw Duay Kan (Let's travel together) stimulus scheme will be presented for a start in January.

 

This will set aside 5.4 billion baht for 1.5million opportunities to get 40% off hotel bills with people paying the remaining 60%.

 

In addition vouchers worth 600 baht for each room booking will be available should the plan get the green light.

 

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Hallelujah! Now all the bar stool liars and heavy drinkers in the foreign society gets a couple of hours more to kill themselves a little bit quicker.

26 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

Hallelujah! Now all the bar stool liars and heavy drinkers in the foreign society gets a couple of hours more to kill themselves a little bit quicker.

Not sure if it is meant to be funny or serious. Either way your comments seem in very poor taste to me.......

He fights so much for the party, sex and booze tourists. He wants to attract more such quality tourists. At least a very clear direction for the Thai tourism...

What time are they allowed to open?  How close are we to 24 hours?

5 hours ago, webfact said:

In addition Phase 5 of the Rao Thiaw Duay Kan (Let's travel together) stimulus scheme will be presented for a start in January.

 

This will set aside 5.4 billion baht for 1.5million opportunities to get 40% off hotel bills with people paying the remaining 60%.

 

In addition vouchers worth 600 baht for each room booking will be available should the plan get the green light.

Hasn't the Tourism Minister noticed that tourism has picked up very well in certain areas. I can't see many hotels in Phuket, for example, offering the big discounts they did to enter this scheme before, at least not until after Songkran,

5 hours ago, webfact said:

It will apply to areas in Bangkok, Phuket, Krabi, Phangnga, Pattaya, Hua Hin and Koh Samui.

Chiang Mai??????

2 minutes ago, Burma Bill said:

Chiang Mai??????

Mainly family tourists there I think ????. Such longer opening hours are an advantage for some. But many could suffer from more noise and other problems. Also, there needs to be special infrastructure for that time, like more police and other things.

Some bars in Samui will be unhappy with this 04.00 closing.  It means that they have to close earlier. ????

6 hours ago, topt said:

Not sure if it is meant to be funny or serious. Either way your comments seem in very poor taste to me.......

Never said you have to like them. Don´t understand why you read them, though. Self-inflicted bad taste. Not a dream in my world.

3 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

Never said you have to like them. Don´t understand why you read them, though. Self-inflicted bad taste. Not a dream in my world.

Not taking your side but the answer is quite funny ( i will try to remember that one )

6 hours ago, alyx said:

Not taking your side but the answer is quite funny ( i will try to remember that one )

Ok, that´s great. Please let me know how it works for you. ???? 

19 hours ago, webfact said:

This was billed by the minister as a New Year gift to the people and stimulating spending by foreign tourists.

A new years gift..... BS

Thailand is like an octopus putting out tentacles to catch multiple differing tourists. One is out there looking for the rich, high dollar visitor, yet they open channels to the mostly penniless Russians and Indians, they waffle on about family friendly resorts, yet support drunken revelry until all hours. These categories are hardly co-simpatico..

The cabinet meeting is over. Any news regarding this topic? I couldn't find anything. Perhaps a good sign ????