On 8/9/2024 at 11:44 AM, freeworld said:

You could apply for citizenship or perm residence.

Which involves what?

 

On 8/9/2024 at 11:44 AM, freeworld said:

 

 

Well, can that "The Ministry of Grand Plans and Lofty Ideas" is at it again.

Is Brunei still in ASEAN?

Won't they get upset at not being mentioned?

it can work out when the Thai accept the same identity losses as most European feel and are ready to have problems as you see in the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands, Danmark.

 

The realization of the Schengen that did will take a lof to time and this started first with the BeNeLux, all makes that I am afraid the rest of ASEAN has moved ahead due to tourism and depending on other not work as a stable source of income. because the wealth of the Schengen area does not come from tourism at all when look closer at all.

On 8/9/2024 at 10:13 AM, Qld4000 said:

The 80 million target is more than Double this years target.  

Phuket ( supposedly the jewel in tourism crown) has major traffic congestion problems & it’s getting worse by the day. 
Can you imagine Phuket with more than Double what’s there now..?

You’ve got to wonder what is their interpretation of saturation level tourist arrivals.  When you see incidents of overloaded tourist boats capsizing & passengers hanging from the sides of trains & sitting on roofs of buses in some Asian destinations……maybe the sky’s the limit. 

This government has failed to address the issue of over tourism and the saturation of same. The economy is in ruins and all this government can suggest is more GDP through tourism. They need to explore other options such as educating its young and retraining existing human power and forward planning for the future. All Thailand has are Move Backward parties stuck in a cycle of decline including this one.