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10 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Sanga believes the cost-of-living crisis in Europe is behind the increase, as rising energy costs have made it too expensive for many Europeans to spend winter in their own countries

Interesting hypothesis - Not

 

Most of the travelers we get in Thailand have not been able to travel for 2-3 years and hence going all the way.

This may not be sustainable due to loss of jobs in the west from recession, high airfares, travellers burning their savings during the past 2-3 years.  

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7 hours ago, Pique Dard said:

wrong! they want better pay!

Wrong. During the pandemic many returned home and either set up their own business or found other work. There was never any shortage of work, many factories were refurbished during that time.

A town not very far from us doubled in size during the pandemic, bit of a pain about 15 minutes longer to get to the airport.

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2 hours ago, jcmj said:

The Thais are very thrifty and most figured out a way to make it through Covid and now don’t want to go work 6 days a week for a <deleted>ty salary. If the owners want more staff then pay up. 

Which will be passed on to the customers via service charges....

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Thai Friendly more money????, less work, more sanuk and maybe find falang pay b(l)ocken washing machine and sick bufallo ho(s)pital. Khaaaaaab. Me keekiat mag mah tam ngahn too much.

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12 hours ago, BritManToo said:

They still need to heat their homes and the air fares are very expensive. I can't see any saving to be made by a western foreigner coming here for two weeks unless they were homeless in the west. 

Aren't their parents heating their homes and helping with the air fares?

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3 hours ago, mjakob007 said:

Interesting hypothesis - Not

 

Most of the travelers we get in Thailand have not been able to travel for 2-3 years and hence going all the way.

This may not be sustainable due to loss of jobs in the west from recession, high airfares, travellers burning their savings during the past 2-3 years.  

I agree.. I highly doubt that one of the leading drivers to travelers choosing to come to TH is, on large part, due to the much higher home heating and energy costs…

I suspect that right now, we’re still seeing that “pent up travel demand” that’s finally been released… i suspect that’s more the driver that energy costs back home would be.

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27 minutes ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:

Complete nonsense - Bangkok is severely lacking tourists - nightlife venues are half-empty and nowhere near what they used to be in high season pre-Covid. The 2am curfew has decimated Bangkok nightlife tourism and it will never be back to what it used to be unless they relax this ridiculous curfew.

No doubt they are all visiting temples, eating street food, having massages and tucked up in bed by 10 pm.

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Yes folks it is December, and is usually considered to be the High of High tourist season.

  In mid January, there will be the long stayers that will be in Thailand until Spring, or March or April

when their countries will have warmer weather.  By February the number of the short stay tourists will have gone back

home and only the expats and other long staying people will be in Thailand. This is a yearly event, so

why are some people showing surprise? Just wondering?

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2 hours ago, Jiggo said:

Which will be passed on to the customers via service charges....

Naturally. It's how inflation works. Nowhere is immune

 

1 hour ago, Jack Hammer said:

conditions, and paltry  pay

Indeed - for any thinking tourist, this is big dilemma of conscience.  Thailand operates like a slave economy with the people serving tourists paid a pittance. But the low cost / pricing is a large part of what keeps the tourists coming here.  When it gets to the extent that migrant workers are needed to fill the low paid jobs - and many of these left during covid - then the model is broken and Thailand just becomes like Qatar and other M.E. countries - exploiting foreign workers with no rights whatsoever in order to generate industry to keep immigration officers and business owners nicely paid.

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