6 minutes ago, apophyss said:

How chinese tourists can be a good news for Thailand ?

They use only chineses hotel/restaurant/shopping/...

 

(and they a little be noisy...)

Nonsense they are the biggest spenders per day of all nationalities.

Due the issues with Covid currently in China - and their history of exporting covid -  I'd make them all take tests at the airport on arrival

2 hours ago, JustThisOnePostOnly said:

But how many Chinese were putting off their Thai vacations for fear of what awaited them upon return to China?

 

If the covid regime is softening for visitors, then it makes sense that it would also be softening for returning Chinese as well.

So there is hope yet?????

2 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Nonsense they are the biggest spenders per day of all nationalities.

 

 don't interrupt the bigoted rants with facts, it's the Christmas season after all.

Edited December 27, 20223 yr by metisdead
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1 hour ago, Guderian said:

Just what Pattaya needs, on top of the neverending road works and the traffic jams they cause, we'll now have hundreds of Chinese tour buses adding to the problems.

To add to the Mumbai masses. It already looks like an Indian beach. 

47 minutes ago, zzaa09 said:

Could be worse. Could be hordes of the usual trashy Farang.......which is least comparable to ever vigilant Chinese. 

The anti-Farang sentiment requires readjusting and comprehended for what it truly is. 

Do you mean farang as in white westerners or foreigners in general? Excluding the Chinese?

Edited December 27, 20223 yr by mikeymike100

Woww all the overseas Chinese must be excited to rtn home and be ruled by such glorious leader as Xi they flood back ????????????

Once the Chinese return in numbers the westerners will once again have a to take a back seat. reIntroduction of the tm30 for leaving your province more than 24 hours I can see on the horizon. 

Edited December 27, 20223 yr by Bim Smith

All you can eat buffets will once again be history.

This country is one full of...hope...place. 

53 minutes ago, bluemoonpattaya said:

Look at the thread headline.... 5 million Chinese to visit Thailand 2023 

That's a hope and wish. I do not see where China is letting their folks leave the country yet from the main land. All the article says is that they are relaxing entry to China with only a negative PCR test needed. Or did I miss where the article said China is allowing the citizens of its country to travel outbound.

Edited December 27, 20223 yr by ThailandRyan

22 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Due the issues with Covid currently in China - and their history of exporting covid -  I'd make them all take tests at the airport on arrival

Passenger testing positive on arrival in Bangkok would have self-quarantine in Thailand if symptoms are mild, otherwise get medical treatment in Thailand. This might overload the hospitals.

Are they insane?!! Half a million a day going down with Covid, morgue packed with Chinese.  Vaccination resistance in China.  The high probability China is now an incubator of new strains!    Sounds like the opening scene of a horror movie heading for the gates of Thailand!!!

48 minutes ago, pipeflaw said:

My "high hope" is that they dont come at all. I wont rent to them and I wont sell to them.

Plenty of people will I guess.

 

They are already travelling, 3 families we actually know are returning early January from the mainland. Hongkongers are making over 4,000 tours to Japan over the Christmas/New Year holidays.

And the Thailand tourist industry needs any boosts it can get.

54 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:

...The Chinese government are even ordering Pfizer as they have probably realised how useless their own vaccine is

Apparently, the imported Pfizer vaccine will be used only to vaccinate expats, ie foreigners:

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Scholz’s China visit secures BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine access for expats

BY HELEN COLLIS AND HANS VON DER BURCHARD

NOVEMBER 4, 2022 2:10 PM CET

 

People in China will soon be offered the BioNTech/Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine — but only if they are not Chinese.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced the deal today during a visit to China accompanied by a group of business leaders from his country, including BioNTech chief Uğur Şahin.

 

Read more: https://www.politico.eu/article/olaf-scholz-china-visit-secures-biontech-pfizer-vaccine-covid-19-coronavirus-access-for-expats/

 

 

If you believe Oz media that may notbe a good idea

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/china-covid19-outbreak-is-the-largest-the-world-has-ever-seen/news-story/c738b51975cc7994829e70711a39da01

15 minutes ago, LatPhrao said:

Are they insane?!! Half a million a day going down with Covid, morgue packed with Chinese.  Vaccination resistance in China.  The high probability China is now an incubator of new strains!    Sounds like the opening scene of a horror movie heading for the gates of Thailand!!!

The Thai Government and TAT are seemingly only concerned about money and not any potential risks that come with opening the floodgates to the Chinese?

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

I hear you but a lot of Thais involved in their tourism miss them.

Because these Chinese package tour tourists required the least effort to take care of, were easy to rip off with overpriced attractions and food, and did not complain as they were used to worse in their own country. 

 

Those  businesses that miss them should not have forgotten the (usually) higher spending farangs and other nationalities.  Instead they saw an easy quick money spinner. 

 

It even turned out they were worse off as a lot of the profits were going into Chinese tour companies and back to China, rather than local Thai tourist  usonesses. 

Edited December 27, 20223 yr by jak2002003

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The chairman of the Thai Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trade of Thailand expects more than 5 million Chinese people to visit Thailand next year

And bring Covid in their bags? Is this guy nuts??? 

In China, people with Covid-19 are now allowed to go to work. 

 

It remains to be seen whether they are also allowed to travel abroad for a vacation.

 

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China wants Covid patients to go to work. The public isn’t so sure

 

Analysis by Jessie Yeung and Cheng Cheng, CNN

Updated 2:34 AM EST, Wed December 21, 2022

 

Hong Kong (CNN) — Just weeks ago, catching Covid in China meant being taken to government quarantine for an indeterminate stay and your entire residential building being locked down, trapping neighbors in their homes for days or weeks.

 

Now, as the country rapidly relaxes restrictions, millions of people have been told to keep going to work — even if they’re infected.

 

Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/21/business/china-covid-return-to-work-intl-hnk-mic/index.html

 

 

<deleted> Bus Mania Again , follow  the bloody flag Again like Lemmings , Buffets from Hell , should be locked down till bloody 3039

3 hours ago, webfact said:

BANGKOK, Dec 27 (TNA) – The chairman of the Thai Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trade of Thailand expects more than 5 million Chinese people to visit Thailand next year as the Chinese government announced to lift its COVID-19 control.

Have the Thai Chamber of Commerce been told something that the rest of us have not.

The CCP have so far only lifted Quarantine for Foreign arrivals AFAIK.

As always, dreaming of the Yellow Hoard to come galloping over the Hills to save the Economy.

2 hours ago, Salerno said:

 

 don't interrupt the bigoted rants with facts, it's the Christmas season after all.

Not per head they are not...

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Just now, DavisH said:

Not per head they are not...

Yes. And they did not spend the money over many businesses, or the small local tourist places like restaurants, bars etc. 

 

Many preferred to eat cheap food from 7 11 back in their hotel room, and did not go to eat meals at local restaurants. 

 

Most also did not frequent bars, pubs or smaller entertainment places.  Local people saw little of these tourists money. 

 

Instead the bulk of the profits went to a few large already wealthy companies, and many of those were Chinese  owned!  

With millions and millions of virus cases in China......

and the Thai government will welcome them.

They most be out of their mind.

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

I hear you but a lot of Thais involved in their tourism miss them.

Do the Thais really miss the Chinese or just the money of the Chinese? 

 

13 minutes ago, DavisH said:

Not per head they are not...

From the same website:

"China at present brought revenue of 543.707 billion Thai baht in 2019, clearly the most important country for the Thai tourism industry. However, Europeans are not that far behind at 461.478 billion Thai baht. They still bring in more money than the countries of Asean combined (323.780 billion thai baht)."

 

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

Most of the early Covid cases in Thailand were attributed to Europeans....it  was a surprise as previously Wuhan Chinese featured much in visitors here.

Stirring the pot! Didn't those Europeans travel to China and return? 

Didn't the very first case in Thailand reported in December 2021, returning from China as early cases in the New York, California early Feb 2020. Both known for high volume of Chinese and Business travel to China.

Then you got all the recent lock down in China with their demonstration I wonder why with their first and great Sinovac. 

It had been reported believe it or not majority of Chinese haven't gotten the virus thus far short of herd immunity reason for their recent. 

Somehow I wouldn't trust anything from China,  maybe the leaders said to themselves world want to criticize us OK let's give the people what they want no lock down,  

Get ready for round two?

2 hours ago, Salerno said:

 

 don't interrupt the bigoted rants with facts, it's the Christmas season after all.

Nothing bigoted about it it’s behavior patterns nothing to do with Bigots lol