Blockbuster movie scares Chinese tourists away from Thailand

[MrJ2U]

Any excuse for lower Chinese tourist numbers.

 

 

[sambum]

What is a "brutal scamming compound"? 

 

And if Chinese tourists are being put off in their thousands because of a film, then why not bring out a film denouncing the film as pure fiction, and replace it with one promoting "Even More Amazing Thailand"?

Oh, sorry, somebody has just told me that TAT have already tried that!  

Edited September 23, 2023 by sambum

[Sig]

It's amazing how people will be so swayed by a movie! I remember the insane flood of Chinese tourists that came to Chiangmai after that movie around 10 years ago (something like "Lost in Thailand"? I forgot... never saw it). It was nuts!! During that time, one friend of mine who owns a tourist/motorcycle/car rental shop downtown told me that he'd rather lose all of that business if it could go back to how it was before, even though he was cashing in on the influx bigtime. It was a huge headache dealing with them, not only in his business, but for the city at large and to some degree, the rest of the country.
It would be so beautiful if this movie could do the same in reverse! They should make an entire series out of it!????
Then make it even better by getting the producers to visit Thailand and arrest them upon arrival at the airport for defamation!???? hmmm I guess they can't do that... the CCP wouldn't approve.????

[BadSpottedDog]

Having lived in Thailand for a long time, I honestly don't think this movie is the cause for a huge drop in tourism. Maybe a small portion of it? There are many more logical reasons why numbers are low. 

[thecyclist]

4 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

When will some people learn that fiction is not the same as reality?

And is it really bad for Thailand if some ignorant people don't visit? 

 

Yes, it is.Most visitors to Thailand, especially repeat visitors, aren't too bright. 

[retarius]

2 hours ago, Bobydog said:

Dear Reader,   Abuse from Chinese authorities and prison guards has taken the lives of far too many Falun Gong practitioners. Ms. Mou Yongxia became one of the most recent victims of such violence when she died in custody on July 13 while serving a six-year sentence in Heilongjiang Women’s Prison.    In other news:  A California congressman is calling for the Chinese government to release the mother of a resident in his district who has been jailed for sharing information about the persecution of Falun Gong. The Hudson Institute published a video of a panel discussing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) problematic influence on U.S. university campuses, including attempts to silence Falun Gong activists. Falun Gong practitioners in Indonesia joined the country’s Independence Day events, garnering support from local officials. A young woman shares the story of her and her mother’s repeated displacement due to the persecution and the negative impact it had on her education. Looking ahead, join us on Monday, September 11 at 1:00 p.m. EST for our live webinar diving deeper into the CCP’s transnational repression on university campuses. Hosted by the Falun Dafa Information Center and moderated by leading Confucius Institute expert, Ian Oxvenad of the National Association of Scholars, this webinar will offer new insight into the key challenges facing universities and recommendations for action to best protect freedom of speech and belief for all students, faculty, and members of the campus community.   Register for the event here.

Sincerely, Levi Browde, Executive Director Falun Dafa Information Center

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Take your anti China propaganda elsewhere/

[soalbundy]

2 hours ago, Bobydog said:

Dear Reader,   Abuse from Chinese authorities and prison guards has taken the lives of far too many Falun Gong practitioners. Ms. Mou Yongxia became one of the most recent victims of such violence when she died in custody on July 13 while serving a six-year sentence in Heilongjiang Women’s Prison.    In other news:  A California congressman is calling for the Chinese government to release the mother of a resident in his district who has been jailed for sharing information about the persecution of Falun Gong. The Hudson Institute published a video of a panel discussing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) problematic influence on U.S. university campuses, including attempts to silence Falun Gong activists. Falun Gong practitioners in Indonesia joined the country’s Independence Day events, garnering support from local officials. A young woman shares the story of her and her mother’s repeated displacement due to the persecution and the negative impact it had on her education. Looking ahead, join us on Monday, September 11 at 1:00 p.m. EST for our live webinar diving deeper into the CCP’s transnational repression on university campuses. Hosted by the Falun Dafa Information Center and moderated by leading Confucius Institute expert, Ian Oxvenad of the National Association of Scholars, this webinar will offer new insight into the key challenges facing universities and recommendations for action to best protect freedom of speech and belief for all students, faculty, and members of the campus community.   Register for the event here.

Sincerely, Levi Browde, Executive Director Falun Dafa Information Center

DOCUMENTED DEATHS 75-Year-Old Falun Gong Practitioner Dies in Custody at Heilongjiang Women’s Prison What's new? Ms. Mou Yongxia, a retired teacher from Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, died on July 13, 2023, in the hospital at Heilongjiang Women’s Prison. Ms. Mou died after guards and inmates beat and tormented the 75-year-old woman. She was arrested in September 2019, but the exact reason for her detention and subsequent sentencing remains unclear. Ms. Mou is survived by her three sons.   Why does it matter? For over two decades, Falun Gong practitioners have suffered large-scale imprisonment and abuse in custody for their faith or sharing information to combat the persecution of their spiritual practice. Over 5,000 deaths have been documented resulting from abuse in custody, health complications due to mistreatment, or denial of medical care.    Ms. Mou’s death adds to the ever-growing documentation of the CCP’s deadly crimes against Chinese citizens and the need for urgent international action to stop the persecution and save innocent lives.    What else do you need to know? Ms. Mou’s case is exemplary of two common practices that Chinese authorities use in their treatment of detained Falun Gong practitioners: denial of visitation rights and instigating prisoners to abuse practitioners.   Heilongjiang authorities refused to inform Ms. Mou’s family of the location of her detention from the time of her arrest in September 2019 until April 2023. Even after her family was informed of her detention at Heilongjiang Women’s Prison, prison authorities prevented the family from visiting her until she was in hospitalized in June.   In addition to the abuse inflicted on Ms. Mou by prison guards, correctional officers at Heilongjiang Women’s Prison regularly instigated inmates to participate in the torture and harassment of Ms. Mou and other Falun Gong detainees. According to a Minghui correspondent in Heilongjiang, “When it was about time for everyone to brush their teeth, guards would deny all inmates from doing so, with the excuse that the Falun Gong practitioner in the cell did not renounce her faith. This way, guards stirred up hatred towards practitioners.”  Read More

FAMILY RESCUE California Congressman Requests State Department to Call for Release of Falun Gong Practitioner Chinese authorities arrested Ms. Meng Zhaohong, the mother of a California resident, on May 9, 2023, for talking to people about the persecution of Falun Gong at a local fair in Hebei Province. California Congressman Kevin Kiley wrote to the Department of State on behalf of Meng’s daughter, Ms. Ding Yue. He urged the U.S. ambassador to China to raise Meng’s case with Chinese counterparts. The State Department responded with affirmation that they will continue to call for the unconditional release of Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners of conscience. Read More

TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION Hudson Institute: Panel Discussing CCP Influence on University Campuses Highlights Transnational Repression of Falun Gong As students across the United States return to campus, Falun Dafa Information Center researcher Cynthia Sun joined Ian Oxvenad of the National Association of Scholars and the Hudson Institute’s Nina Shea to discuss the CCP’s efforts to suppress criticism of the regime, promote CCP propaganda, and steal intellectual property. The discussion, which was published online on August 17, garnered attention from Radio Free Asia which reported on the event. Watch Here

AROUND THE WORLD Falun Gong Practitioners in Indonesia Join 78th Independence Day Events, Receive Government Support Director of the Batam Island Youth and Sports Bureau thanks Falun Gong practitioners for their contribution and invites them to join every year.  On August 13, 2023, Indonesian Falun Dafa practitioners participated in parades to celebrate Indonesia’s 78th Independence Day. Hundreds of practitioners gathered in Bali and Batam to join in parades with marching bands and waist drum performances. Tourists from China, Indonesian citizens, and other onlookers conveyed their support and took photos of the Falun Gong banners. Local government officials and police officers expressed their admiration for the Falun Gong practitioners’ performances. They invited the practitioners back to join the activities every year. Indonesia is one of over 100 countries where Falun Gong is practiced, including by many local residents without prior ethnic or cultural ties to China.  Read More HAVE YOU READ THIS? The Falun Dafa Information Center’s “Statistics and Evidence” presents the scale and severity of the persecution, while offering key evidence of the CCP's rights abuses against Falun Gong practitioners from first-hand accounts and independent documentation.  Read More

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How about doing something drastic like not making waves then you won't get arrested. Anybody living in China know that they are living in a dictatorship, an individual isn't going to change that so why stick your neck out? Even in a dictatorship like China there are hundreds of millions of people who live a good life without being harassed. In the past in Eastern Europe the communists repressed Christians who went to church, the alternative of course was to pray at home, read your bible with your family but some chose to undergo arrest and deprivation, that's also a choice. As a devout, peaceful coward I say knuckle under and grow in the shade, sunshine can burn.

[10baht]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

There have been lots reported incidents of tourists being abducted from the streets while on holiday, and lots scam compounds have been uncovered in Thailand.

Well what do you know.

[Gknrd]

I am starting a go fund me account for a new production company. 

 

[BE88]

This film was released because the Chinese government wanted it so as not to help Thailand economically with Chinese tourism and the precise purpose was after the rotation of the new government towards the West, leaving the previous neutrality.

[NoDisplayName]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

.....grounded in true events......

.......rooted in reality.......

That recent documentary about Abraham Lincoln is grounded in true events.

Abe was the president.

It's definitely rooted in reality.

He lived in Washington, DC.

 

The part about slaying vampires was just poetic license.

Still............it was "based on" established facts.

 

 

[Dan O]

5 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

When will some people learn that fiction is not the same as reality?

And is it really bad for Thailand if some ignorant people don't visit? 

 

I think its more trying to find an excuse on why the numbers are low and not returning to pre-covid levels as fast as the country would like. Interesting how all the issues that are claimed to be false actually happen, not only to the Chinese but by the chinese

[tigerbeer]

thanks for suggesting a movie to watch. 

[StayinThailand2much]

And just the other day we read that the "Chinese aren't coming in large numbers because there aren't enough flights"...

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, thecyclist said:

Yes, it is.Most visitors to Thailand, especially repeat visitors, aren't too bright. 

How do you know?

[newbee2022]

Is it a blockbuster or reality report?????

[novacova]

6 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

When will some people learn that fiction is not the same as reality?

And is it really bad for Thailand if some ignorant people don't visit? 

 

They are Chinese from china, they believe everything they hear, it’s an inherent part of their culture, thanks to the government mind controlling communist.

[novacova]

1 hour ago, thecyclist said:

Yes, it is.Most visitors to Thailand, especially repeat visitors, aren't too bright. 

Thanks for speaking yourself ????

[sallecc]

1 hour ago, soalbundy said:

How about doing something drastic like not making waves then you won't get arrested. Anybody living in China know that they are living in a dictatorship, an individual isn't going to change that so why stick your neck out? Even in a dictatorship like China there are hundreds of millions of people who live a good life without being harassed. In the past in Eastern Europe the communists repressed Christians who went to church, the alternative of course was to pray at home, read your bible with your family but some chose to undergo arrest and deprivation, that's also a choice. As a devout, peaceful coward I say knuckle under and grow in the shade, sunshine can burn.

Thanks God the East Europeans and Balts in 80-90's were not like you, they decided to "make waves" and got rid of Soviet shackles and bring down the USSR too, although it seemed mission impossible to many just a decade before that.

 

[mark131v]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

For millions of Chinese tourists, Thailand used to be a happy land of water fights, lantern festivals and delicious food.

 

But thanks to social media rumours and a blockbuster movie, the kingdom’s image among many Chinese people is now one of dangerous illegality and seedy scam border compounds — leaving visitor numbers plummeting.

 

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.

 

But its struggling holiday industry has been hit by viral social media rumours claiming that tourists might be kidnapped and sent across the border to work in brutal scamming compounds in Myanmar or Cambodia.

 

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

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2023-09-23

 

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Sounds like a documentary....

[ignore it]

Looks like Thailand is going to have to go "all in" on Kazakhstan tourists

[dingdongrb]

3 hours ago, rabas said:

 

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

 

I wrote that to the Internet, didn't I?  So, it must be true!

 

Why do you think a website like Snopes was created or a TV show like MythBusters?

[BarraMarra]

He was arrested the Red Bull murderer is swanning around a free man.

[thailand49]

Why would the truth hurt?   They let all the triads here apply for unknown visas.  They set their network online gambling,  scams of all sorts on Thai and their own while visiting. Once the word got out you think the Chinese were going to just buy Real Estate. ????

 

[thecyclist]

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

How do you know?

Easy. First time visitors are exempt. You come for the first time, you realize what a huge clown show LOS is, and you are smart and don't want your brain to shrink, you never come back. 

Granted, maybe you are smart, but you are also an unattractive sex addict. Then it's possible that your Libido wins out over your brain, and since you don't get laid much in farangland dueto a lack of sex appeal, the clownshow is your only option, and you are willing to put up with some shrinkage of the thinking organ in order to keep the other organ from shrinking  It's a question of priorities.

[Bobydog]

3 hours ago, retarius said:

Take your anti China propaganda elsewhere/

It's not proaganda sunshine and it's not only in china where its happening

[Muzzique]

7 hours ago, Artisi said:

Why is it good news?

The reduced carbon footprint of all those travellers of course. What other reason could there be?

 

Here's an idea for a sequel

 

The 100000 strong bar-girl Vampire Army that Crave chinese blood. 

directed by Quentin Tarantino

A real life documentary explaining the reason for the millions of Chinese tourists that go missing every year in Thailand that end up as soulless cursed undead.

[thecyclist]

2 hours ago, novacova said:

Thanks for speaking yourself ????

Yes, myself included. My IQ probably dropped by 10 points during my time in LOS.It has slightly recovered since I left. 

[paulikens]

If only this was true but unfortunately It's utter nonsense.  

[mithunonthenet]

Does this movie clear that that it's MOSTLY CHINESE GANGS that are doing the kidnapping and scamming? As if the CCP govt. who is still working with the military dictatorship in Myanmar and has heavily backed the Hun Sen regime in Cambodia -- the Chinese govt. still cannot crack down on their criminals? They go after Chinese dissidents abroad and set up secret Chinese police stations in the West.... but next door neighbours don't get any crackdowns?!