Blockbuster movie scares Chinese tourists away from Thailand

[LALes]

Ignorant Chinese tourists?  Declining Chinese economy?  Overblown movie hysteria?  Whatever the reason, I, for one, am glad to have a low season again.  Better enjoy it while you can.  High season will be upon us in no time-Chinese or no Chinese.

[Docno]

Wait... So, a hotel can sue a guest for a truthful negative review, but the Chinese can get away with slandering a whole nation. Yep, makes sense. 

[ThaiFelix]

Som nom na!  You reap what you sow.

[Cabradelmar]

Chinese propaganda at work... CCP wants to keep money in-country... "spend locally" for the good of the collective. How affective was this one movie, ask a Chinese. One thing is certain, they are not coming to Thailand as before.

[daveAustin]

Quick, get the sequel out!

[maddox41]

Great news  well done  ???????? 

But it won't matter as the  Russians are taking up the slack and screwing over the place 

I wonder when ther movie will be banned and the  production company will go to jail for defamation. 

How dumb are people its a movie not a documentary most  of the  Chinese that come  to ????????  are  new money pheasant Chinese tourists  we have all seen it  ???? 

[LALes]

Speaking of enjoying your low season while you can, 120,000 Chinese expected to descend on our shores on Monday, the first day of visa exempt.  Batten down the hatches@

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand is hugely reliant on tourism, particularly from China. The country welcomed more than 10 million Chinese visitors each year before the Covid-19 pandemic — numbers Bangkok is desperate to see return.

Nothings changed to come back for, Thailand is still pedaling the same old sh#t.

[Taboo2]

I thought Chinese were smart people.  

[RocketDog]

3 hours ago, bob smith said:

can we play this movie daily in cinemas nationwide for the foreseeable future please ???? 

Absolutely! Where we can voluntarily offer funding for your idea?

Seems an inexpensive way to buy some peace and quiet as well as standing room at the shrimp buffets.

Maybe use funds to pay for looping footage at some of the airport televisions?

[Tom H]

Happy “Onemorefarang” made his comment again.

[MurakamiX]

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tourists might be kidnapped and sent across the border to work in brutal scamming compounds in Myanmar or Cambodia.

Or worse, go back to China 

[tandor]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Box office shocker: Thai trafficking thriller spooks Chinese tourists from coming to Thailand (video)
by Bob Scott

 

 

A Thai box office movie highlighting the real-life dangers of human trafficking in Thailand and Southeast Asia has been blamed for scaring Chinese tourists away from the kingdom.

 

The movie, No More Bets, is a gripping thriller grounded in true events. It follows the harrowing journey of a computer programmer who finds himself ensnared in a violent scamming ring in Southeast Asia, having been trafficked through an unspecified country, widely believed to be Thailand. It is worth noting that the tales of individuals being trafficked to operate call centre scams are rooted in reality.

 

The Thaiger, alongside several other prominent news outlets in Asia, has extensively covered the plight of Asian individuals who are trafficked into call centres in Southeast Asia, primarily in Myanmar and Cambodia, to perform online scams defrauding unsuspecting victims of substantial sums of money.

 

The majority of those enslaved are deceived into this work through deceptive promises of lucrative employment. There have been no reported incidents of tourists being abducted from the streets while on holiday, and no such scam compounds have been uncovered in Thailand. Nevertheless, the film has evoked fear in a number of viewers, consequently casting a shadow over Thailand’s tourism industry.

 

Full story: The Thaiger 2023-09-23

 

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scared of the truth eh!

[Caldera]

We need more movies like this one. There's some horrible things going on that need exposure. 

[BarraMarra]

555 Yes Maddox even as we speak a Thai Government spokesman will be formulating a statement accusing China of committing offensive material offending the Thai people and a ban will be in place. Now instead of pampering the Chinese tourists they will turn on them now there not returning.

[BarraMarra]

9 minutes ago, LALes said:

Speaking of enjoying your low season while you can, 120,000 Chinese expected to descend on our shores on Monday, the first day of visa exempt,.  Batten down the hatches@

Expected a word TAT likes to band around. On Tuesday higher than the original figure expected will have arrived as is it is usual statement from TAT.

[jippytum]

Nothing story this one. Recent media reports would indicate they are more likly to be kidnappedand  and extorted by gangs from China already residing in Thailand.  Expect more drama  with gratis five month visas  available  with minimum security checks. 

[Smokey and the Bandit]

3 hours ago, Moonlover said:

Why is it good news?

No sense of humor??

[brianthainess]

1 hour ago, Moonlover said:

 

Yes, why not? Why does @isaanistical think it's good news that hoteliers', restaurant owners. tour guides and the likes are unable to make a decent living because of a film?

They are all Chinese owned.

[Ironmike]

Considering the Chinese don't spend money here except in businesses that are owned by Chinese and the money returns to China who really cares about these people also 99%  of this stuff is don't by them here hence the visa so called changes but never worry people great news Taksin will soon be the new political adviser to the current idiot that stole this election from that Pita guy that rightfully won the election so all should be fixed once Taksin is released from prison oh sorry Hospital,, he only did 12 hours of an 8 year sentence in prison never mind. 

[spidermike007]

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Good information. Thanks. So many people are simply unaware of the degree of heinous behavior on the part of the CCP. They are evil, toxic, dangerous, and nasty. They just don't care. It is beyond international pressure having an effect. They are absolutely drunk with their power, and wield it without one nanogram of grace. 

 

As much as I dislike the US being the world's policeman, I dread the possibility that China may one day take their place, and begin organ harvesting in Nebraska, Paris and London. 

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[Deserted]

Let's hope this film keeps a few more away. 

[bbbbooboo]

hmmm... we need to show more of these movies regularly ?

[digbeth]

With their economy's state, The Party itself could be encouraging this rumour to stop their people from bringing money to spend abroad too much

 

Not to dismiss that the kidnappings aren't there, they were a few reported, who knows how many were just paid off? 

Also having seen how some of these rich Chinese kids behave being high off their minds walking around Bangok, no wonder it happens

[rabas]

4 hours ago, dingdongrb said:

Difficult to do when most people believe everything they see/hear on the Internet is true.

 

One would think that ignorant people would spend more money and perhaps more foolishly than competent folks.

 

Maybe Thailand needs to make more movies like 'Lost in Thailand' which supposedly helped with tourism from China.

 

Do you really believe it when they say ... most people believe everything they see/hear on the Internet is true. ?

 

[Sig]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Chinese tourist Jia Xueqiong spent a week in Thailand with her husband and daughter, despite her parents’ disapproval.

That was a bizarre sentence to end the article with... are we supposed to know who Jia Xueqiong is????

[BobfromNYC]

It's a Chinese Guy Richie movie, what's the big deal? It's just a f'ing action movie. Total BS if they think this is keeping Chinese folks from visiting, pure distraction. 

[Aleksey75]

Yeah, indeed. I was surprised when my Chinese undergraduate students asked me to meet them at the airport, because their flight was at midnight and because of the rumors and the movie one of them was preoccupied and scared.

[NorthernRyland]

3 hours ago, WHansen said:

national parks dual pricing

I wish it was only dual-pricing, try more like 10x.

[Sig]

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Perhaps the Chinese should educate themselves on what their own government is doing to the minorities in the West, and Falun Gong members.

 

Falun Gong practitioners across China are subject to widespread surveillance, arbitrary detention, imprisonment, and torture, and they are at a high risk of extrajudicial execution. The party-state invests hundreds of millions of dollars annually in the campaign to crush Falun Gong, while simultaneously engaging in exploitative and lucrative forms of abuse against practitioners, including extortion and prison labor.

 

https://freedomhouse.org/report/2017/battle-china-spirit-falun-gong-religious-freedom

 

The Chinese government has imprisoned more than one million people since 2017 and subjected those not detained to intense surveillance, religious restrictions, forced labor, and forced sterilizations.

 

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/china-xinjiang-uyghurs-muslims-repression-genocide-human-rights

 

And they are scared of the Thais? This is somewhat bizarre. But, I guess if you are not a minority in China, you simply do not get persecuted, unless you speak out against the CCP, or dictator Xi.

I allow no personal freedom to my people. 

We harvest organs for profit and punishment. 

We oppress our minority populations. 

We barely allow any imports and make it difficult for companies to sell their products in China. 

We ignore territorial boundaries and claim ownership of the South China Sea. 

We are nearly the only nation to have subscribed to a zero covid policy, even if it meant putting millions out of work. 

I have just been appointment PM for life. Or, close to it. 

Impressive, huh? Want to be like us? 

Yep, and don't forget the place that is talked about even less than East Turkistan (the minorities in the west that you mentioned), that is, Inner Mongolia, not to mention Tibet.... I doubt many tourists will be coming from those regions, so I guess nobody cares....