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Thailand’s tourism authority plans strategy revamp to boost visitor spending


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5 hours ago, webfact said:

Tourism and Sports Minister Sudawan Wangsuphakijkosol revealed plans to discuss strategies with TAT to extend the duration of stay for Thai as well as international tourists. This will be achieved by offering combined tourism products that span more than one destination. The minister emphasised that TAT should persuade cross-border tourists to extend their stay beyond a single day.

Desperation sinks in.

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6 hours ago, webfact said:

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is setting its sights on revamping its strategies to rejuvenate tourist spending, which has experienced a notable decline since the onset of the pandemic.

 

How? If they don't spend more, it's probably not because they couldn't find more cr/\p or entertainment to spend more money on, but because their budget simply doesn't allow them to spend more. Economic realities come to bite.

 

Sure, they can chase the more affluent "quality tourist" again, but they just won't come in the numbers that Thailand wants. 

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1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin yesterday urged TAT executives and domestic offices to reignite tourism expenditure.

 

Huh? Is he really powerful enough to change the world, re-invigorate the depressed economies, stop a recession, lower airfares, erase the huge mistakes that Anutin and Prayuth made by keeping the nation shut down for far too long, enrich the local population that lost thousands upon thousands of businesses due to the Prayuth Decimation, and change all the things that were plaguing Thailand before Covid, that NOBODY ever addressed? That would be a very impressive feat.

 

Perhaps this guy is a superhero after all. 

 

 

 

Perhaps your purchases get checked and if it's not enough you get threatened with a good beating and sent back in again.

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2 hours ago, Fancyzancy said:

Reduce the 90 day O visa from $200. USD to $99.00. 

 

 

Come again? The fee for a single-entry non-immigrant visa is 2000 baht.

 

As Thai embassies and consulates tend to use a somewhat unfavorable exchange rate, that often translates to $80 - still well below your amounts. 

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1 hour ago, soalbundy said:

Perhaps your purchases get checked and if it's not enough you get threatened with a good beating and sent back in again.

 

Maybe they will copy their Chinese friends' business tactics for tour groups ('forced' shopping tours); spend a minimum of X baht at each shop, or risk being kicked out of the hotel, and have your transportation tickets invalidated... That would teach those pesky tourists to spend more!

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6 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

He wouldn't last a second in a proper Westminster system.  Prime Minister question time.  He would run away crying.

 

Are you seriously comparing that Muppet Show (with the puppet master holding the strings while staying at the luxury wing of a hospital) with the Westminster system?

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Thailand has no "less well-known" destinations outside the 3 months when temperatures are bearable. Outside these 3 months the only bearable destinations are the (dwindling number of clean) beaches. Unless you consider cowering under a hotel air-con or soaking all day in a hotel pool a holiday destination.

 

Sensible measures to promote "less-well known" would be abolishing dual pricing in the cancerous national parks that pre-empt 80% of wild-life areas, and relaxing the stifling dress codes for tourists in temples and monuments.

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