Thailand Chooses Cities for Future Casino Complexes

[Dionigi]

Casinos are money laundering heaven, no way of knowing how much money is passing through, customers can walk away with cash, money taken in can be sent to the banks and washed. no one to ask where the money came from in the first place.

[FruitPudding]

6 hours ago, Ben Zioner said:

Ever been to Las Vegas?

 

Nope.

[Patong2021]

On 3/14/2025 at 2:09 AM, VBF said:

If they build in Chonburi, perhaps the hordes of Chinese in Pattaya will go there instead?

Maybe build near to Utapao and let flights from China use it?

 

Most logical location is  near Utapao. This can easily handle junket charters from China, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. Pattaya  as a destination is already set up for this  type of visitor and this would be a good way of slowly easing away from cheap sex tourism to  a different type of exploitation.

 

On 3/14/2025 at 2:28 AM, Tom100 said:

In my daily bike rides i have seen that Chiang Mai has at least 3 very large hotels that have been closed since covid that would be suitable for a gaming complex.

1) Chiang Mai Plaza Hotel

2) Lotus Pang Suan Kaew Hotel

3) A large hotel less than 1 km NW of Lotus Pang Suan Kaew Hotel on the road between the old city and Maya Mall

 

Reopening these huge hotels would create a lot of jobs...although any money lost by locals would partly offset that economic benefit

 

 

The hotels would need major retrofits. More cost effective to demolish and  rebuild.

 

On 3/14/2025 at 2:49 AM, connda said:

Drive down Thapae Road and witness results of the 2020 virus scare fiasco which ended up closing down all of the "non-essential business" that have never recovered.  Shuttered storefronts galore.  "Rose of the North."  Right! 

 

There are shuttered storefronts everywhere and not just in Thailand. The businesses were in trouble before Covid and all that Covid did was to  speed up their inevitable closing.  How many crappy souvenir shops or bad restaurants can a place support? How many of those shops were selling mobile phones, or were tour agencies?

 

 

On 3/14/2025 at 3:01 AM, JimHuaHin said:

Hua Hin not listed .... thankfully.

 

The presence of the Royal palace  and the demographics of the region  preclude it. Hua Hin attracts the middle and upper tier demographic of Bangkok. It is family focused. The foreign visitors are somewhat different than elsewhere in Thailand, and are less likely to support a casino. It's more of an active crowd, even if older. A golf or tennis or hiking development, is more likely to succeed.