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Thailand’s tourism recovery under threat from safety concerns and sluggish Chinese economy


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3 hours ago, daveAustin said:

Let’s hope that safety concerns plague the minds of Chinese tour operators for years to come!

 

...better yet, start creating and spreading horror stories to Chinese social media with fake profiles to improve the safety concerns

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It's not the safety of Thailand that is the concern of Chinese tourists, the average mainlanders  are simply struggling with  with their bills and Xi has been telling his people to spend their money domestically. Gone are the days of zero Rmb tours and those who still can afford prefer Japan or better still, Europe, etc.

Youtubers, Tiktokers from China had been belittling and giving false informations just for hits.

Thailand, after Hong Kong is still a tourist destination for the average mainlanders.

 

 

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I recall Bhumibol the Great talking about the “slow life “. It appears to not be in character for Thailand generally. “ We need a solution NOW. Get the Chinese! They are many, many.”

Never mind Chinese tour packages notoriously let as few “ baht” as possible escape their hands, or so I have read.

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Increasingly unsafe (roads and personal), polluted (land, air and sea), scams, corruption, shoddy healthcare, foreign dependency (Chinese tourist)... yep. Unfortunately, this country lives and dies with agriculture and tourism/retail trade... Thailand has yet to face the reality that that is increasingly unwise and unsustainable. Until they start making some fundamental changes to allow for a better educated workforce (so to attract new high-tech manufacturing, etc.), diversify the economy, and attract new investment in growth industries, Thailand will continue to flounder. Agriculture and tourism/retail trade is fine, but it keeps the country poor and growth flat. And populist giveaways are not going to help the people in the long run. Take that money, and a whatever other money They have available to them, and invest in the infrastructure needed to truly lift the people up.

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6 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

Some good news at last ..................LOL

Interestingly my friends accountant said that Government was considering doubling income tax rates for foreigners, 10% to 70% instead of 5% to 35%. 

 

They had a lengthy debate about the doubling the 0% in the first bracket but put that into  he too difficult basket for the time being. Anutin also suggested they could triple the rates but the consensus was that they have to go step by step.

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46 minutes ago, kentrot said:

When is this News Outlet going to admit that TOURISM is only  12-15% of the GDP ?

 

Can we PLEASE get some news about the general state of the economy  and the other 85% of the GDP

or is that asking too much ?

 

For many of your readers, we are full time residents.

We don't need  heavy rotation of  "tourist" stories !

 

There - I vented and feel slightly better

until the next "tourist in trouble" story pops up

 

 

true enough. a definite one eyed view, lack of perspective, lack of understanding(?) of the thai economy from the writers/posters/article cut and paste merchants on this site. it does become a little tedious after a while.

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