Tourism Thailand Boosts Tourism with Strategic Focus on Quality Markets

[Andycoops]

It's just laughable.

 

They've been repeating the same old mantra for years and years and it's never worked.

 

The clueless Muppets would know a strategy if it poked them in the eye.

 

Because they haven't a clue about what's happening outside of the country.

[ThailandGuy]

Same story , new coat!  As long as there is no real change nothing will happen and quality tourists will go elsewhere.

 

[sambum]

21 hours ago, norsurin said:

Here we go again!

 

Anything with the "TAT" marker on it is always  is guaranteed to make me supercautious, and treat the figures as some kind of "pipedream"! 

[ThailandGuy]

5 minutes ago, Andycoops said:

It's just laughable.

 

They've been repeating the same old mantra for years and years and it's never worked.

 

The clueless Muppets would know a strategy if it poked them in the eye.

 

Because they haven't a clue about what's happening outside of the country.

They need to treat tourists like tourists and not grab every chance to put them with pictures in the news by every wrong step they make. They are bashing farangs all the time making it look like they do not want tourists.

[norsurin]

41 minutes ago, sambum said:

 

Anything with the "TAT" marker on it is always  is guaranteed to make me supercautious, and treat the figures as some kind of "pipedream"! 

True.They live in a bubble and wanr realize that people going to fex Vietnam.. Cambodia and so on because their much cheaper compared to the overpriced Thailand.So what do they focus on..i see some articles and it's about vietnamese hookers in Bangkok for make Vietnamese look bad Then its the border conflict with Cambodia.The manipulation of thai baht.. the street figths in Phuket and Pattaya.The criminal heaven for foreign criminals on the run.Of course u can buy cheap beer and whiskey in 7/11 but a tourist want to buy that in a restaurant not run to 7/11 for a cold beer 

Im waiting for 7th july when the US tarrifs start against the countries that haven't get a agreement yet.

Hopefully Thailand get smacked and realize that the karma they allways talk about suddenly hits themselves.

[Expat Tom]

I have lived here for many years. I like the Thai people and have many Thai friends.

I have ZERO regard for the people running this country. They are gradually coming to the realization

that they have to compete for tourists as there are many other choices out there and much of them much better than Thailand. The Bangkok gang of fools needs to pull their collective heads out of their butts and stop giving long stay expats reasons for seeking other horizons.  

[BangkokReady]

On 6/16/2025 at 8:29 PM, NorthernRyland said:

Thailand doesn't even know what they're selling. It's a lot of things and it's a great country but it's not high quality tourist material, except for in very isolated pockets like an all inclusive resort. Step one foot outside and it's an entirely different story.

 

You can't just shut your eyes and wish yourself into being a different country.  TAT seem to think that all they need to do is put up prices, say that they're targeting high quality tourists, and they will magically appear.

 

One of the biggest problems is how they treat foreigners.  Rich people, who can afford to go anywhere, won't be spending big bucks to go somewhere where there is any danger of a local (be it civilian or some sort of authority) giving them a load of hassle and getting away with it, and there's a lot of that in the press.  Rich people want to know that they're going to be treated very well, if they're going to spend a lot of money.  Probably better than the locals.  Nobody wants to shell out on an expensive holiday only to be looked down upon and possibly abused or exploited.

 

Sure, "it's their country and they can do what they want" is always true, but they then have to live with the consequences.

[Jonathan Swift]

Sure, good, so long as they don't let  Israeli ex military punks in to make trouble. Yeah, I know, there's no practical way to do that, but we can wish.