Suggestion To Revive The Tourism Authority Of Thailand

[klikster]

That whooshing noise you heard was the rescue helicopter coming in to take the high-end extreme tourist who was injured in a firefight to Bumrungrad for treatment of his/her wounds. Rescue is built into the price of the ticket.

Does the award ceremony afterwards cost extra?

Orchid Heart?

Edited June 23, 2008 by klikster

[nidhogg]

Great stuff. If I may suggest though:

The best think that can happen on the tour is coming under small arms fire.

You are missing a marketing opportunity here. Triple the price, and let the tourists use those guns on the top. You could have "bag limits" - 3 insurgents, 5 insurgents or 7 insurgents, depending upon price.

" I am sorry sir, I know that insurgent is cutting the head off that rubber trapper, but you have filled your 3 bag limit". "Another 5,000 dollars - that will do nicely - let her rip".

Or One day vigilante tours - the war on drugs revisited - this time with a profit.

[Nignoy]

Great stuff. If I may suggest though:

The best think that can happen on the tour is coming under small arms fire.

You are missing a marketing opportunity here. Triple the price, and let the tourists use those guns on the top. You could have "bag limits" - 3 insurgents, 5 insurgents or 7 insurgents, depending upon price.

" I am sorry sir, I know that insurgent is cutting the head off that rubber trapper, but you have filled your 3 bag limit". "Another 5,000 dollars - that will do nicely - let her rip".

Or One day vigilante tours - the war on drugs revisited - this time with a profit.

Bugger we never used to get anything for for bagging insurgents,I have never seen a rubber trapper, have seen bisam trappers in belgium and fur trappers in Canada, and when we were chasing insurgents never came across any roaming rubber trappers Maybe I would have bagged the odd one or two but there again I was,nt a tourist Nignoy

[Kerryd]

...the thought of driving an AWD Alvis anti Tuk Tuk weapons blazing along the front at Patong makes my mouth water Nignoy

And you can get extra points for every Harley riding, Nazi helmeted, tattooed farang you squash too.

I will have Bung Bars fitted too Bung!!! is the noise Harley riders makewhen they make contact with the Bullbars also special anti Tout and Tailor Grenade throwers:D Nignoy

Be careful, we tend to shoot back !

(oh wait, I'm not tattooed and don't wear a nazi helmet. No matter, returning fire is just as fun.)

We tried doing the Extreme Tourism thang here. Too many problems. Sounds good on paper, but over half the tourists (upon arriving at the airport) refused to leave the airport.

And for some strange reason, most of the ones we, er, I mean they, did managed to convince (read: trick/coerce/force) into the vehicles, never came back ! The Afghan Extreme Tourism Board is very upset with that, and plans on keeping the deposits those people made unless they return the vehicles !

And claiming to be kidnapped and held for ransom will not result in a refund !

Pattaya, often the "cutting edge" of new trends in Thailand, has been the hub of Extreme Sports for some time now. In fact, they are trying to get two different Extreme Sports into the next Olympics as "Demonstration" sports. If they prove to be popular, who knows, the 2012 games could feature things like:

Extreme Free Fall Parachuteless Balcony Jumping.

Extreme Matrix-Style Bullet Dodging.

Extreme Traffic Dodging (the "sudden death" finals are said to be quite spectacular).

Extreme Strolling (along Beach Road between 00:00 - 05:00).

The Extreme 100 meter dash down soi 6 wearing nothing but shorts made of 1,000 baht notes was cancelled as it was considered to dangerous for the athletes.

How ever, stay tuned as there will no doubt soon be other Extreme Style Sports coming your way (most likely head-on and at high-speed) soon !

[Nignoy]

...the thought of driving an AWD Alvis anti Tuk Tuk weapons blazing along the front at Patong makes my mouth water Nignoy

And you can get extra points for every Harley riding, Nazi helmeted, tattooed farang you squash too.

I will have Bung Bars fitted too Bung!!! is the noise Harley riders makewhen they make contact with the Bullbars also special anti Tout and Tailor Grenade throwers:D Nignoy

Be careful, we tend to shoot back !

(oh wait, I'm not tattooed and don't wear a nazi helmet. No matter, returning fire is just as fun.)

We tried doing the Extreme Tourism thang here. Too many problems. Sounds good on paper, but over half the tourists (upon arriving at the airport) refused to leave the airport.

And for some strange reason, most of the ones we, er, I mean they, did managed to convince (read: trick/coerce/force) into the vehicles, never came back ! The Afghan Extreme Tourism Board is very upset with that, and plans on keeping the deposits those people made unless they return the vehicles !

And claiming to be kidnapped and held for ransom will not result in a refund !

Pattaya, often the "cutting edge" of new trends in Thailand, has been the hub of Extreme Sports for some time now. In fact, they are trying to get two different Extreme Sports into the next Olympics as "Demonstration" sports. If they prove to be popular, who knows, the 2012 games could feature things like:

Extreme Free Fall Parachuteless Balcony Jumping.

Extreme Matrix-Style Bullet Dodging.

Extreme Traffic Dodging (the "sudden death" finals are said to be quite spectacular).

Extreme Strolling (along Beach Road between 00:00 - 05:00).

The Extreme 100 meter dash down soi 6 wearing nothing but shorts made of 1,000 baht notes was cancelled as it was considered to dangerous for the athletes.

How ever, stay tuned as there will no doubt soon be other Extreme Style Sports coming your way (most likely head-on and at high-speed) soon !

Was Sadly too old for Afghani extreme sports, but it sounds similar to summer Activities in the Radfan, the natives were just as cute and fanatical,then down to swinging Aden for some cordite free R&R, The tryouts for the Xtreme Tree and Lamp post dodging for motor cyclists was held in Queensland yesterday sadly 4 contestants did not complete the course alive! putting the number of deaths in this category this year to 31 really horrific but it should be a big hit in Patong or Pattaya, Nignoy

[grantbkk]

Leave it to TV to unselfishly offer to save the floundering tourist business. There is a lot of good stuff here. The floating markets and the heritage sites of Siam Paragon, Emporium and to a lesser extent MBK just don't do it for everyone. What would the majority of tourists want to do? "Hey honey! Shall we go the Chiang Mai and experience an asthma attack again this year of do you want to bag our limit of insurgents in a protected war zone?" I think we all know the answer to that.

[Kerryd]

Or you could start up a business ferrying Missionaries up river and into Burma.

Nothing like a little scenic river cruise, punctuated by pirate attacks, explosions and battles between the Burmese army and various insurgent groups to get the blood pumping !

Who knows, they might even make a movie about it one day. Oh wait. Been there, done that. Sorry Johnny R, didn't mean to try and cut into your action there.

[Kan Win]

The Afghan Extreme Tourism Board

latest advert:-

Kan Win

P.S. good to see you posting "Kerryd"