A symptom of the disease that prevents tourists from choosing Thailand as a place to go ?

[10baht]

There is disease that is keeping Thailand from being a world class tourist destination. One and only one symptom is of that disease manifests itself in the fact that ... wait for it... no Olympic coverage on TV.

[Presnock]

13 hours ago, 10baht said:

There is disease that is keeping Thailand from being a world class tourist destination. One and only one symptom is of that disease manifests itself in the fact that ... wait for it... no Olympic coverage on TV.

What no tourists?  is the govt lying about in the first 7 months of the year only 22 million visitors?  seems a deluge so to speak of toursists.  I realize that now with the rains and flooding in many provinces, those numbers will shrink - maybe not as we still read that the govt is making moves to entice even more visitors.  

[Ralf001]

Plenty of optons to watch the olympics in Thailand

 

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Edited August 1 by Ralf001

[Luuk Chaai]

13 hours ago, 10baht said:

There is disease that is keeping Thailand from being a world class tourist destination. One and only one symptom is of that disease manifests itself in the fact that ... wait for it... no Olympic coverage on TV.

 

Screw the Olympics,,     more woke B/S

this should have never been allowed to happen

[Skipalongcassidy]

23 minutes ago, Luuk Chaai said:

 

Screw the Olympics,,     more woke B/S

this should have never been allowed to happen

"I don't have anything against transgender women or transgender men. All I'm saying is men should fight against men, women should fight against women and transgenders should fight against transgenders," Shields stated.

[Skipalongcassidy]

31 minutes ago, Luuk Chaai said:

 

Screw the Olympics,,     more woke B/S

this should have never been allowed to happen

White House, Harris silent on Olympics gender controversy as Trump vows to 'protect women and girls'

[Deputy7]

Overcrowded and sky high prices!!!

[arick]

Language barrier! People thinking that they'll get sick.

[Presnock]

1 hour ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

"I don't have anything against transgender women or transgender men. All I'm saying is men should fight against men, women should fight against women and transgenders should fight against transgenders," Shields stated.

Just like the female Itlaian boxer, all it took was one punch and she knew that fighting a man would only hurt her even more.  The officials that allowed this to even happen on the world stage should be banned from ALL sports events in my opinion.

[Thingamabob]

18 hours ago, 10baht said:

There is disease that is keeping Thailand from being a world class tourist destination. One and only one symptom is of that disease manifests itself in the fact that ... wait for it... no Olympic coverage on TV.

Coverage every day on True.

Edited August 2 by Thingamabob

[supersomchai]

5 hours ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

White House, Harris silent on Olympics gender controversy as Trump vows to 'protect women and girls'

I think women in general will be far safer under Harris than Trump ,just 

think it through!

[wwest5829]

5 hours ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

White House, Harris silent on Olympics gender controversy as Trump vows to 'protect women and girls'

Yea, why no knee jerk comment without thought. Be more like Trump, open mouth, insert foot.

[retarius]

My view is that it is a dirty place. Most hotels I do not wish to sleep in and so end up paying 3000 baht a night for a nights sleep. I am allergic to other people's dirt. 

The other thing is the roadways being littered with rubbish from throw cars....low class people throwing rubbish from cars. 

Also the junker cars and trucks oil the roadways. Tuktuks should be abolished. They are filthy and dangerous. In the 60s and 70s I used to vacation camping all over Italy, it was a midden heap, but they clean up their act.

Robbing taxis....sort this stupid problem out for good. Raise prices so that taxis drivers can make money without fiddling the meter or turning it off. Arrest and execute the Phuket Taxi mafia. 

Thieving corrupt cops, arrest and kick out from the force.

Rude and insulting Immigration officers....tourists and expats are people too, not some loathsome animal. 

Start with a single goal; achieve it , then move onto the next

Edited August 2 by retarius

[NoshowJones]

21 hours ago, 10baht said:

There is disease that is keeping Thailand from being a world class tourist destination. One and only one symptom is of that disease manifests itself in the fact that ... wait for it... no Olympic coverage on TV.

Good.

[NoshowJones]

1 hour ago, retarius said:

My view is that it is a dirty place. Most hotels I do not wish to sleep in and so end up paying 3000 baht a night for a nights sleep. I am allergic to other people's dirt. 

The other thing is the roadways being littered with rubbish from throw cars....low class people throwing rubbish from cars. 

Also the junker cars and trucks oil the roadways. Tuktuks should be abolished. They are filthy and dangerous. In the 60s and 70s I used to vacation camping all over Italy, it was a midden heap, but they clean up their act.

Robbing taxis....sort this stupid problem out for good. Raise prices so that taxis drivers can make money without fiddling the meter or turning it off. Arrest and execute the Phuket Taxi mafia. 

Thieving corrupt cops, arrest and kick out from the force.

Rude and insulting Immigration officers....tourists and expats are people too, not some loathsome animal. 

Start with a single goal; achieve it , then move onto the next

I agree with everything you say, apart from the hotels, I have always been happy with the hotels apart from one I would not use again, and that is only because I cannot get used to the A/C control which is fixed to the wall when all the other hotels have a handset you can keep by your bed.

[superal]

6 hours ago, Deputy7 said:

Overcrowded and sky high prices!!!

So true . Thailand seems to be geared up to charge foreigners Western prices , especially in the big towns . Small towns you can expect to pay the lower local price but there are exceptions , such as hospitals , national parks and some services if they know you are a farang . E.G. , my recent experience in Bangkok , 2 small Chang beers cost 303 baht when the price list showed 129 baht each .Then they added v.a.t. and a service charge  . To buy in Makro a 24 bottle case of small Chang is equal to 33 baht each .

[jesimps]

If tourism is down then Jomtien isn't affected. I've been in and out of there for the last week or so and the place is heaving. It's almost impossible to get get parked up. My friend stays in the same hotel every year on holiday and is used to it being quiet is quite disappointed at how full and crowded it is. I used to live in Jomtien because it was an oasis away from the craziness of Pattaya, but wouldn't dream of it these days. It's a mad house.

[Skipalongcassidy]

17 hours ago, supersomchai said:

I think women in general will be far safer under Harris than Trump ,just 

think it through!

And exactly what do you base that on???  

[Skipalongcassidy]

16 hours ago, retarius said:

My view is that it is a dirty place. Most hotels I do not wish to sleep in and so end up paying 3000 baht a night for a nights sleep. I am allergic to other people's dirt. 

The other thing is the roadways being littered with rubbish from throw cars....low class people throwing rubbish from cars. 

Also the junker cars and trucks oil the roadways. Tuktuks should be abolished. They are filthy and dangerous. In the 60s and 70s I used to vacation camping all over Italy, it was a midden heap, but they clean up their act.

Robbing taxis....sort this stupid problem out for good. Raise prices so that taxis drivers can make money without fiddling the meter or turning it off. Arrest and execute the Phuket Taxi mafia. 

Thieving corrupt cops, arrest and kick out from the force.

Rude and insulting Immigration officers....tourists and expats are people too, not some loathsome animal. 

Start with a single goal; achieve it , then move onto the next

If you hate it soooo much why don't you move on and do something besides moan and groan???

[supersomchai]

4 hours ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

And exactly what do you base that on???  

Its off this topic but since you ask.

If you follow what she says i do on x

and you see she consistently champions womens rights (such as the right to choose an abortion or not).

Follow her or google what she says

that is what i base my statement on.

like i said think about it!

 

[rickudon]

Nothing wrong with most Thai hotels. Never had a problem with cleanliness, once power points didn't work. Far worse hotels in UK. And in Thailand, can still get a room for under 1,000 baht a night.

Problems with Thai tourism - Chinese, Russians and taxi drivers.

[john donson]

mike tyson should identify as woman and go fight the algerian man

[Skipalongcassidy]

18 hours ago, supersomchai said:

Its off this topic but since you ask.

If you follow what she says i do on x

and you see she consistently champions womens rights (such as the right to choose an abortion or not).

Follow her or google what she says

that is what i base my statement on.

like i said think about it!

 

So... she champions womens' rights to murder their unborn children... but cannot define what a woman is and allows men who "feel like they are" women to participate in WOMENS' sports.

[10baht]

On 8/2/2024 at 5:25 AM, Ralf001 said:

T Sports 7

I appreciate the effort to show me some TV options. I did watch some live stuff last night… but artistic (blah blah blah, you fill in the blanks) and ping pong??? I can’t go back to last week and see if real sports action was shown on Thai TV. Again, I was not aware that tiddlywinks and team rope skipping were “sports”. Thanks for a pole-vaulting experience,  

[MartinL]

On 8/1/2024 at 4:02 PM, 10baht said:

There is disease that is keeping Thailand from being a world class tourist destination. One and only one symptom is of that disease manifests itself in the fact that ... wait for it... no Olympic coverage on TV.

If that was true, it'd encourage me to visit Thailand. But I'm already here so lack of coverage suits me fine.

[Ralf001]

1 hour ago, 10baht said:

I appreciate the effort to show me some TV options. I did watch some live stuff last night… but artistic (blah blah blah, you fill in the blanks) and ping pong??? I can’t go back to last week and see if real sports action was shown on Thai TV. Again, I was not aware that tiddlywinks and team rope skipping were “sports”. Thanks for a pole-vaulting experience,  

 

 

I doubt T Sports 7 dictates what "sports" are played for their coverage.