Phuket is seeing more activities from tourists, as tourism is now at 50% compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to the director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand Office in Phuket.

 

Ms. Nantasiri Ronsiri Thursday said that the number of visitors to Phuket from January to December 2022 totaled 9.26 million, with 53.6% being domestic tourists and 46.4% being international tourists, pumping into Phuket 233.38 billion baht in tourism revenue throughout the year.

 

“Before the pandemic, Phuket had a tourism revenue of 400 billion baht,” said Nantasiri, “And now we are at 200 billion baht, so that means a 50% recovery.”

 

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Hmmmm...oh goodee...more Russian tourists?

One crowd of Rooskies are having fun in the sun. Meanwhile their compatriots are committing atrocious war crimes in Ukraine while being used as cannon fodder by that deranged dictator. 

Something wrong here. 

18 minutes ago, harleyclarkey said:

One crowd of Rooskies are having fun in the sun. Meanwhile their compatriots are committing atrocious war crimes in Ukraine while being used as cannon fodder by that deranged dictator. 

Something wrong here. 

My young Russian temporary neighbour who escaped to Thailand and now they have left for Hua Hin after purchasing an Education Visa to live in peace for a year and go to class twice a week, she mentioned on one occasion that the majority here are Putin supporters..... something is definitely wrong here................

16 minutes ago, CANSIAM said:

My young Russian temporary neighbour who escaped to Thailand and now they have left for Hua Hin after purchasing an Education Visa to live in peace for a year and go to class twice a week, she mentioned on one occasion that the majority here are Putin supporters..... something is definitely wrong here................

It's not unusual for people to be war hawks and talk the tough talk so long as they aren't the ones doing the fighting. I guess a lot of those young Russian guys got medical exemptions for bone spurs.

I guess not many countries accepting Russian tourists at the moment

 

have to escape the draft from their lunatic leader somehow ! 

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Ms. Nantasiri Ronsiri Thursday said that the number of visitors to Phuket from January to December 2022 totaled 9.26 million, with 53.6% being domestic tourists and 46.4% being international tourists, pumping into Phuket 233.38 billion baht in tourism revenue throughout the year.

Complete garbage... they have no idea about domestic numbers and even less idea about how much they spent.

Vladimir gives his regards.....From Russia, with hate!

 

 

they should not be allowed to enter Thailand.  send them back so that they can protest against Putins war if they will not fight.  this is what we did in the sixties

I spoke with a St Petersburg lass friend who has lived in Switzerland for about 5 years (since marrying a Swiss guy). She's a journalist (an award winning one too). Kat was one of many targeted by Putin and his FSB or whatever his neo-KGB is called. Kat cannot return even if she wanted to now as she would be killed.

She did return a year or so back before the war started and had to run for her life as the escalation of suppression in Russia had gone off the scale since her last visit to family and her home in St Petersburg. Kat is a European journo and wrote/writes stories from all over both East and West Europe for years. 

Kat told me that many many Russians are simply apathetic and won't stand up against the Putin despot. Others love him and yearn for a neo-Stalinist ultra-nationalist nation and re-annexing of Europe to make The great Neo-Czarist Russia similar to the Soviet days but capitalist/totalitarian. Others are simply cowered under the brutal weight of Putins Russia.

The exodus of many that we have seen and hear about in the Press, she says, are simply running away to not fight, to avoid facing what Putin and his cronies (aided and abetted by a totally corrupt system of oligarchical funding and corporate raiding) a 'head in the sand' mentality if you will.

Kat also told me the regression and complete control Putin and his henchmen have over the country now is so tight, so all encompassing that there is NO free speech, NO ability to peacefully protect or hold rallies without being beaten, shot, arrested, and if not then then later taken away to prison/gulags.

The Press is completely controlled by Putin and any descent is forbidden and crushed immediately and brutally. Ultra-nationalist spy and inform on more moderate people. 

41 minutes ago, malibukid said:

they should not be allowed to enter Thailand.  send them back so that they can protest against Putins war if they will not fight.  this is what we did in the sixties

I'm sure that protesting made you feel good, but it ultimately it had no effect. The US simply lost and withdrew from Vietnam, which had nothing at all to do with protests. Protesting against Putin will have no effect other than people being thrown in jail or disappearing. In Thailand, all protests have done is bring the military onto the streets rather than bring change - except to install military governments.

Bad news for Phuket but good news for the rest of Thailand if they are concentrated in one area.

Omg more Russians great way to ruin a really nice place. 

 

Omg more Russians great way to ruin a really nice place. 

 

genocidal tourists welcome

3 hours ago, CANSIAM said:

My young Russian temporary neighbour who escaped to Thailand and now they have left for Hua Hin after purchasing an Education Visa to live in peace for a year and go to class twice a week, she mentioned on one occasion that the majority here are Putin supporters..... something is definitely wrong here................

You say: "after purchasing an Education Visa to live in peace for a year and go to class twice a week"

So do you they bought it from an 'agent', or they went thru the correct channels. Class twice a week seems a bit iffy?

Of course its not my business, but asking for a friend!

3 hours ago, Khun Loong said:

Bad news for Phuket but good news for the rest of Thailand if they are concentrated in one area.

Plenty in Pattaya

 

6 hours ago, CANSIAM said:

My young Russian temporary neighbour who escaped to Thailand and now they have left for Hua Hin after purchasing an Education Visa to live in peace for a year and go to class twice a week, she mentioned on one occasion that the majority here are Putin supporters..... something is definitely wrong here................

You can purchase/buy an education visa? I'm shocked, don't you need to prove that you are going regularly to class and are actually learning?

3 hours ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

You say: "after purchasing an Education Visa to live in peace for a year and go to class twice a week"

So do you they bought it from an 'agent', or they went thru the correct channels. Class twice a week seems a bit iffy?

Of course its not my business, but asking for a friend!

They bought it, agent I assume he said around 15,000 Hua Hin - Phuket 50-60,000, 2 classes a week ( they chose English language ), corruption at its best...

14 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

You can purchase/buy an education visa? I'm shocked, don't you need to prove that you are going regularly to class and are actually learning?

I believe Russian agents are all over this.....apparently they are for sale !

4 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

I'm sure that protesting made you feel good, but it ultimately it had no effect. The US simply lost and withdrew from Vietnam, which had nothing at all to do with protests. Protesting against Putin will have no effect other than people being thrown in jail or disappearing. In Thailand, all protests have done is bring the military onto the streets rather than bring change - except to install military governments.

Think you need to stop watching documentaries about this era in American history and start reading. Now first up I'm not an American fan but history is history. Fact 1 America had all but destroyed the North ability to fight before they left 2 years prior. Fact 2. It took the North 2 years to rebuild its infrastructure ability to fight. Fact 3. The corruption and lack of will in the south was the main reason for the defeat. Quite possibly because for years they were used as a secondary force with the USA and some Australian troops doing the heavy lifting. It is just utter nonsense that USA was defeated by the North, America was defeated by anti war protests and feelings back home. Even the disastrous Afghanistan was not a defeat but a severe ineptitude of the US government what a disaster they caused.

13 minutes ago, CANSIAM said:

I believe Russian agents are all over this.....apparently they are for sale !

I am sure you are correct on this, no surprises then, business as usual?

More than likely Putin will lock some up when some return as deserters. 

15 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

I am sure you are correct on this, no surprises then, business as usual?

Looks like it, I thought Big Joke was to straighten out the place............

Here comes the "Russian Hatred" on steroids.  Very sad but not unexpected.  It's right behind "Chinese Hatred." 

Live and let live.  Most people are not a reflection of their own country's Geo-politics.

28 minutes ago, BritScot said:

Think you need to stop watching documentaries about this era in American history and start reading. Now first up I'm not an American fan but history is history. Fact 1 America had all but destroyed the North ability to fight before they left 2 years prior. Fact 2. It took the North 2 years to rebuild its infrastructure ability to fight. Fact 3. The corruption and lack of will in the south was the main reason for the defeat. Quite possibly because for years they were used as a secondary force with the USA and some Australian troops doing the heavy lifting. It is just utter nonsense that USA was defeated by the North, America was defeated by anti war protests and feelings back home. Even the disastrous Afghanistan was not a defeat but a severe ineptitude of the US government what a disaster they caused.

I would respond further, but it's off topic and would probably be removed by the mods.

1 hour ago, BritScot said:

Think you need to stop watching documentaries about this era in American history and start reading. Now first up I'm not an American fan but history is history. Fact 1 America had all but destroyed the North ability to fight before they left 2 years prior. Fact 2. It took the North 2 years to rebuild its infrastructure ability to fight. Fact 3. The corruption and lack of will in the south was the main reason for the defeat. Quite possibly because for years they were used as a secondary force with the USA and some Australian troops doing the heavy lifting. It is just utter nonsense that USA was defeated by the North, America was defeated by anti war protests and feelings back home. Even the disastrous Afghanistan was not a defeat but a severe ineptitude of the US government what a disaster they caused.

the anti war protest in america had a great impact on popular opinion.  as Lyndon Johnson has been famously quoted as saying  "once you loose Walter Conckrite you have lost the war"

4 hours ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

You say: "after purchasing an Education Visa to live in peace for a year and go to class twice a week"

So do you they bought it from an 'agent', or they went thru the correct channels. Class twice a week seems a bit iffy?

Of course its not my business, but asking for a friend!

for sale in red square.

I had the good fortune of being able to share a taxi ride from Bangkok Phuket hospital to Lotus's in Phuket town, with an attractive, and judging by her dress and jewellery, reasonably wealthy Russian woman, and we got talking about the invasion of Ukraine and what she said was enlightening for me!

 

She said that this invasion/war was crazy because many families, like hers, had mixed Russian and Ukrainian relatives, whereby some of her lineage were Russian, whereas others were Ukrainian, so taking sides was damn near impossible, and she said it was dividing the country and families, ALTHOUGH she did say that any dissent was pounced upon immediately, so being able to come to Thailand for her was a good way out.

 

She didn't say she was for or against Putin, but she did say she was against the invasion – – take from that what you will.

1 hour ago, connda said:

Live and let live.  Most people are not a reflection of their own country's Geo-politics.

say that to a Ukrainian, they have always being hated for they anti-western arrogance.

most support the war brainwashed or not