2-Trillion-Baht Project Pushes Thai Tourism Industry

[Payboy]

 3,000,000,000,000 Thai Baht equals (three trillion Baht)

67,049,700,000.00 British Pound Sterling

Are you sure? Do the Thais use long scale or short scale?

Short scale: One Trillion = 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) ie: USA

Long scale: One Trillion = 10^18 (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) ie: Europe

I went to google. Entered convert three trillion baht to usd. You try it. I'm not sure about short or long scale.

Actually the OP says it's just a measly 2 trillion baht.

[Soi Sauce]

WHO SAID THEY'D COME HERE FOR MEGA-PROJECTS?

Is watching corruption now a spectator sport?

Edited March 15, 2013 by Soi Sauce

[khaowong1]

Those Chinese, Malaysia, Singapore visiting on their tourist packages aren't going to do the job, me thinks.. we'll see. At least as far as the little brown darlings from Issan are concerned. It's the other 70% of tourists that support the families and small villages around the Northeast. If the tourism bureau spends this 2 trillion baht just to get theose C-M-S tourists, Nana, Soi Cowboy and Walking Street will dry up and blow away. When the only product your country produces is Som Tam and little brown darlings, you need to re-think about what the future holds for your people.. Is it tourism? Then why not do everything it takes to make those tourists keep coming and coming and coming back. Visa regulations is a good place to start. Clean beaches, honest transportation, ease of travel around the country. Do you suppose any of that 2 trillion will be used for those projects?

[salty]

Should be a few gazillion in the next TAT announcement.

[jacko45k]

Another hefty dose of self delusion. So cheap booze and the availability of willing young ladies at budget prices thus creating a Wold West scenario are not part of the attraction?

Well you have to read between the lines, only 30 % come for the regular tourist attractions. And remember, 50% asked were women.

[OzMick]

 

3,000,000,000,000 Thai Baht equals (three trillion Baht)

67,049,700,000.00 British Pound Sterling

Are you sure? Do the Thais use long scale or short scale?

Short scale: One Trillion = 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) ie: USA

Long scale: One Trillion = 10^18 (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) ie: Europe

It is irrational to use a scale that varies its steps as it progresses. Europe developed the metric scale which steps by 10³ (kilo, mega giga terra) yet wants to use a counting scale that steps by 10³ (thousand, million) then by 10⁶ (billion, trillion). When do the steps increase again?

[noitom]

This sums up to double down on those elephant farms and that humane training technique featured by Thai mahouts. Especially that guy sitting atop the penned and chained down elephant with the pick, hacking away at the elephants skull. It also signals a boom for "the girls of Thailand" the real backbone of the Thai economy. Money exchange hustlers, petty criminals, bootleggers, and drug dealers are now allgearing up, while the government "officials" are calculating their skim.

[NoshowJones]

They need to educate Thai women on how to eat and exercise because the #1 tourist draw of beautiful and slim women is dwindling as more and more women bulk up at an alarming rate.

Educate Thai women, or Thai anybody????

[DocN]

Ooooooooooooooooooh, that is such good news!

First they will update the train system.

Next get rid of Jet-Ski or jewel- scams.

Then buildt a BTS- line between the airports...

That should boost Thailands tourism to..do I hear something from TAT?....yessssssss....40 quadrillion tourists every year and...

...oh...time to wake up already?!

[overherebc]

Those Chinese, Malaysia, Singapore visiting on their tourist packages aren't going to do the job, me thinks.. we'll see. At least as far as the little brown darlings from Issan are concerned. It's the other 70% of tourists that support the families and small villages around the Northeast. If the tourism bureau spends this 2 trillion baht just to get theose C-M-S tourists, Nana, Soi Cowboy and Walking Street will dry up and blow away. When the only product your country produces is Som Tam and little brown darlings, you need to re-think about what the future holds for your people.. Is it tourism? Then why not do everything it takes to make those tourists keep coming and coming and coming back. Visa regulations is a good place to start. Clean beaches, honest transportation, ease of travel around the country. Do you suppose any of that 2 trillion will be used for those projects?

Friend of a friend, honest, was and still is the F& B manager in a Patt's hotel. ( No Names no Packdrill ) The hotel contracted with a Korean lot for package holidays.

After the the third 'lot' of Koreans arrived he had to segregate the breakfast room for the package tour 'lot and other guests because the package tour 'lot' got there in the morning before anyone else and cleaned the place out of everything that was on the table.

No mini-bar bills, only the free water was used. No restaurant bills because the doggie bag from breakfast was enough for the day.

Quality tourist, but hey, they make up the numbers.

Edited March 16, 2013 by overherebc

[khaowong1]

Those Chinese, Malaysia, Singapore visiting on their tourist packages aren't going to do the job, me thinks.. we'll see. At least as far as the little brown darlings from Issan are concerned. It's the other 70% of tourists that support the families and small villages around the Northeast. If the tourism bureau spends this 2 trillion baht just to get theose C-M-S tourists, Nana, Soi Cowboy and Walking Street will dry up and blow away. When the only product your country produces is Som Tam and little brown darlings, you need to re-think about what the future holds for your people.. Is it tourism? Then why not do everything it takes to make those tourists keep coming and coming and coming back. Visa regulations is a good place to start. Clean beaches, honest transportation, ease of travel around the country. Do you suppose any of that 2 trillion will be used for those projects?

Friend of a friend, honest, was and still is the F& B manager in a Patt's hotel. ( No Names no Packdrill ) The hotel contracted with a Korean lot for package holidays.

After the the third 'lot' of Koreans arrived he had to segregate the breakfast room for the package tour 'lot and other guests because the package tour 'lot' got there in the morning before anyone else and cleaned the place out of everything that was on the table.

No mini-bar bills, only the free water was used. No restaurant bills because the doggie bag from breakfast was enough for the day.

Quality tourist, but hey, they make up the numbers.

That's what I'm talking about.. How are these type of "tourists" helping the "real" Thai economy?

[Sayonarax]

They need to educate Thai women on how to eat and exercise because the #1 tourist draw of beautiful and slim women is dwindling as more and more women bulk up at an alarming rate.

Tell your girlfriend to stop eating western food then.

[Sayonarax]

Those Chinese, Malaysia, Singapore visiting on their tourist packages aren't going to do the job, me thinks.. we'll see. At least as far as the little brown darlings from Issan are concerned. It's the other 70% of tourists that support the families and small villages around the Northeast. If the tourism bureau spends this 2 trillion baht just to get theose C-M-S tourists, Nana, Soi Cowboy and Walking Street will dry up and blow away. When the only product your country produces is Som Tam and little brown darlings, you need to re-think about what the future holds for your people.. Is it tourism? Then why not do everything it takes to make those tourists keep coming and coming and coming back. Visa regulations is a good place to start. Clean beaches, honest transportation, ease of travel around the country. Do you suppose any of that 2 trillion will be used for those projects?

Friend of a friend, honest, was and still is the F& B manager in a Patt's hotel. ( No Names no Packdrill ) The hotel contracted with a Korean lot for package holidays.

After the the third 'lot' of Koreans arrived he had to segregate the breakfast room for the package tour 'lot and other guests because the package tour 'lot' got there in the morning before anyone else and cleaned the place out of everything that was on the table.

No mini-bar bills, only the free water was used. No restaurant bills because the doggie bag from breakfast was enough for the day.

Quality tourist, but hey, they make up the numbers.

Tour buses are for Xenophobes..