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Thai tour guides claim foreigner stealing their jobs, ruining country

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PATTAYA:--Thai tour guides are complaining that foreigners are stealing their jobs and ruining Thailand and its international reputation.

More than 50 members of the Pattaya Tour Guide Club filed a complaint with the Department of Special Investigations Dec. 23, urging Thailand’s top law enforcement agency to do something about Russians and other foreigners working without work permits.

Club President Krittidet Suttichotipunya claimed his group has not only lost jobs to foreigners who speak the same language as the foreign tourists, but that these foreigners are misrepresenting Thai history, culture and traditions. They also complained that members who actually do have jobs are being paid below the legal minimum wage by many tour operators.
- See more at: http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/thai-tour-guides-claim-foreigner-stealing-their-jobs-ruining-country-33619#sthash.5Qc9ho7t.dpuf

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Goose....egg.....

How many speak the language needed to an acceptible degree?

How many actually know the real history of Thailand?

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Fast forward guys and gals with the pending big decline of tourists to Thailand there wont be any guides needed

so in actual fact sort of an own goal situation foreign guides go home and locals go on the dole

oops sorry don't have such luxuries here oh well back to the fish factory

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What is happening is that the foreign tour operaters are creating "fake" resorts.

They are keeping all the income for themselves.

They are conning the tourists.

For example, I know of a "fake" resort built / constructed by the Chinese for their own tourists. It's a Thai hill-tribe village. Daily the employed Thai "actors" arrive for work to be part of this "fake" hill-tribe community.

These resorts get shut down by the Thai authorities, only to re-open shortly afterwards.

This, I think, is where the Thais have their complaints.

But, they cannot have it all their own way.

Foreign businesses are allowed in Thailand. This is what the Thai tour companies are whinging about.

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OK but at a guess THAI actor/actress so there you go plenty of inclusion of local labor so wheres the gripe i am sure they don't work for owt

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These "actors" probably get paid Thai pea-nuts.

And the hill-tribe village is in Huay Yai area.

The Chinese tourists are like slaughter-of-the-lambs.

I think I know it - bit hard to fake the long necks tho?

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Is there the usual "silly" whistles & boi'ng noises to accompany these actors? which seem mandatory on the childish TV programmes

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