kjhbigv Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 No Tourists?! Went down Walking Street tonight, first time in months....NEVER seen it that busy in over 4 years, absolutely packed to the rafters and all the bars and restaurants were busy! If tonight was anything to go by, I don't think the tourist machine in CM is anywhere near dead! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellodolly Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 The only people who think it is dead are the uninformed blind people. Difference being there is not as many of the sex tourists and a lot more Asians. Also I have notices a lot of women now traveling in groups of two and more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3stan Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 the weekend market ( if its anything to go by) gets so busy after around 6pm that one Can bearly get through. Its been like that for the past 3-4 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiang mai Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 The only people who think it is dead are the uninformed blind people. Difference being there is not as many of the sex tourists and a lot more Asians. Also I have notices a lot of women now traveling in groups of two and more. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Semper Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 ....NEVER seen it that busy in over 4 years, absolutely packed to the rafters Thanks for the warning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
femi fan Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Difference being there is not as many of the sex tourists i wonder how this is determined? And do we also get beer tourists? Temple tourists? Good tourists? Proper tourists? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uptheos Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Difference being there is not as many of the sex tourists i wonder how this is determined? And do we also get beer tourists? Temple tourists? Good tourists? Proper tourists? It's only business people that care about how many tourists are here. I've never heard a restaurant owner asking (or caring) what kind of tourist orders food and drink. Sex tourists? Is Chiang Mai fast taking over from Pattaya. The majority of sex tourists in CM are foreigners, that live here and know where to go outside of Loi Kroh!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhatmasterson Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Difference being there is not as many of the sex tourists i wonder how this is determined? And do we also get beer tourists? Temple tourists? Good tourists? Proper tourists? Very good question! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muchogra Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 The majority of sex tourists in CM are foreigners, that live here and know where to go outside of Loi Kroh!! Ah hah..I gather those foreigners in the know don't post in TV then!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uptheos Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 The majority of sex tourists in CM are foreigners, that live here and know where to go outside of Loi Kroh!! Ah hah..I gather those foreigners in the know don't post in TV then!! Lot's of posters are in the know, the Loi Kroh scene is actually quite tame and very amusing. I'm surprised how many people seem to think a few bars in Loi Kroh make it the equivalent to Amsterdam's Red Light District or Germany's Reeperbahn........they haven't been around much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkles Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 The doomsday merchants have recently been telling us Chiang Mai is a ghost town which is laughable.It will not be long before the Chinese tourists will be coming here in ever increasing numbers. I do have some sympathy for business owners who find themselves in locations that are no longer popular but in any business you have to be pro active and either move location or just walk away. If you speak to tourists ,especially from Europe,they have a continuing love affair with Thailand for a variety of reasons , weather ,prices of food and accom. It's also a jumping off point for going to Laos, Golden Triangle etc etc. Looks pretty positive to me.I doubt CM will ever become a Pattaya for which we should be eternally grateful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elektrified Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 (edited) The doomsday merchants have recently been telling us Chiang Mai is a ghost town which is laughable.It will not be long before the Chinese tourists will be coming here in ever increasing numbers. I do have some sympathy for business owners who find themselves in locations that are no longer popular but in any business you have to be pro active and either move location or just walk away. If you speak to tourists ,especially from Europe,they have a continuing love affair with Thailand for a variety of reasons , weather ,prices of food and accom. It's also a jumping off point for going to Laos, Golden Triangle etc etc. Looks pretty positive to me.I doubt CM will ever become a Pattaya for which we should be eternally grateful. Agreed 100%. But the Chinese are already here. They have been for a while now. Sometimes they travel around Chiang Mai in a caravan of 4 completely full charted buses or in large groups of tuk tuk's with police escorts. I might add that it appears from what I have observed that they are spending money like there is no tomorrow. Edited November 28, 2011 by elektrified Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uptheos Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 I might add that it appears from what I have observed that they are spending money like there is no tomorrow. They are the Chinese followers of Harold Camping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CobraSnakeNecktie Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 (edited) my guess is that tourists are avoiding other parts of Thailand because of the flooding and just diverted their plans to CM. Overall the reports that tourism numbers are way down for Thailand. Edited November 28, 2011 by CobraSnakeNecktie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinm Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 If you think the Sunday market was busy now, wait till 2013! The Chiang Mai Tourism Business Association visitor predictions 2011 2.3m 2012 4.2m 2013 6.1m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E1717007 Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 this is high season, dont be shocked to see tourists! chinese will continue to flood in however, overall inbound will remain flat for Oct-Dec2011. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muchogra Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 "But the Chinese are already here." The Chinese are everywhere. It's hard to find a place in the world that doesn't have Chinese. A couple of months ago, the wife of the Chinese couple who rented one of my FIL's houses a few years ago came with a tour company. Her husband was the military attache at the Chinese Embassy in Thailand about a decade ago. My wife and I went to meet her up in the hotel. Cases of French wine were being consumed. All together probably about 30 people there. She bought a bottle of snake pills, said to cure diabetes, for her husband. It has a label of the snake farm on Rama IV. B2,500 for the bottle, about 50 tablets I think. Her friend spent close to 300k on various things, one of which was a Buddha amulet. What did she know about amulet, I wonder? They came to our house for a chat. Her friend gave my wife a bottle of moisturizing spray said to cost RMB2,000 (about USD300). My wife refused to accept the gift but our friend said it actually cost only USD20 bought from the States but she sells in her beauty salon for RMB2,000. Her friend told me that if it's too cheap nobody would want to buy it. She urged me to go do business in China saying that the days to make money from farangs are over, it's now time to make moola from the Chinese.....Hmmm...something to ponder about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard10365 Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 I think the flood has something to do with the increase of Thai tourist in Chiang Mai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomchaiCNX Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 O.P. I keep figures from the last 10 years only and they tell a different story. If you look at them you see clearly when we had the Tsunami, bird flu, coup, floral show, yellow shirt problem, red shirt problem, floods. More Thai= less Farrang, less High so Farrang more backpackers etc. If you are in the American market you see the problems after 9/ 11 or even the wars in the middle east. For most people the closure of the airport, together with the recession is the point where things changed a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellred Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Ill be there in just over 2 weeks. Happy days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koosdeboer Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 I think the flood has something to do with the increase of Thai tourist in Chiang Mai. correct. Many cars with Bangkok license plates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazeeboy Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 well i haveonly had my business open in chiang mai6 months so i dont know what other years are like ,but this november is far far better than the 17 novembers i spent in samui with the exact same business ,i know samui in november is rain season but here i almost doubled what was taken in any november in samui,so if its quiet here all i can say is roll on the busy season (**) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limegreenpatato Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 high season + floods in bangkok. Chiang mai is always busy during high season...that's why it's called high season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elektrified Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 I think the flood has something to do with the increase of Thai tourist in Chiang Mai. correct. Many cars with Bangkok license plates. I agree and Thai friends who are in business here tell me that business has really been great with all the Bangkok Thais staying here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moe666 Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Many Thai people staying here because of floods. My girl friend spoke to a family a few days ago and they have been here for a month. A friend who has a massage parlor and hair salon and husband has a travel shop. They are both singing the blues about tourist traffic compared to 2001 thru 2006. They are in a weird location and are dependant on tourist staying at the Chiang Mai Gate Hotel for a lot of their business. The european, american, and Australian tourist staying there is down from years past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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