webfact Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Marketing plan to increase tourismBANGKOK 6 February 2014 (NNT) — The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is holdimg a meeting with the Tourism Council of Thailand to discuss immediate marketing strategies to stimulate the country's tourism industry, with a focus on Hong Kong as the island city has koasted the highest level travel warning to Thailand.President of the Tourism Council of Thailand (TCT) Piyaman Tejapaibul revealed that the TAT and the TCT will meet for the first time to discuss an emergency marketing plan to stimulate growth in the Thai tourism industry.The TCT has initially suggested 2 solutions to tackle the drop of travelers to the Kingdom. The first is to clarity the actual demonstration situation to countries most sensitive to news reports, such as China, Japan, Korea - and especially the island city of Hong Kong.The second is to categorize countries that are less sensitive to the ongoing political tension, such as India, and to promote more traveling within this group of travelers.The closure of the 3 major protest sites will help alleviate travel problems affecting the tourists, according to Ms. Piyaman, adding that the principle objective of the marketing plan is to help the whole tourism industry; not any particular companies.-- NNT 2014-02-06 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kotsak Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 "..with a focus on Hong Kong as the island city has koasted the highest level travel warning to Thailand." It WAS an island city till 1860.. Get your bloody facts right.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taony Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Thanks TAT, its been a few days. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesseFrank Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 This must be part of the marketing plan i assume. Not ? http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/702428-british-tourists-attracted-to-carnival-like-bangkok-protests/ British tourists attracted to 'carnival-like' Bangkok protests 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatsujin Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 What a bunch of morons. Solution 1 should have been going on anyway since before anything kicked off. Solution 2 is going to hit a brick wall with India because of the attempted deportation of the Indian Businessman for "protesting". Besides that, I'm wondering if they are the "quality" tourists Thailand is looking for, are they? Just give tourists free rice to eat for the duration of their stay, solving two problems in one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrantSmith Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 What a bunch of morons. Solution 1 should have been going on anyway since before anything kicked off. Solution 2 is going to hit a brick wall with India because of the attempted deportation of the Indian Businessman for "protesting". Besides that, I'm wondering if they are the "quality" tourists Thailand is looking for, are they? Just give tourists free rice to eat for the duration of their stay, solving two problems in one. India's wedding tourism is worth a fair chunk to the tourism industry here in Bangkok, those f***ers go on for days! I don't think there'll be too much blow back from the Indian fellow being deported - if that ever happens - if the Indian Government want to get involved, they'll make him a diplomat retroactively. Let alone the ensuing legal action that will be taking place over this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuchulainn Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 (edited) Nonsense. Edited February 6, 2014 by Cuchulainn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesetat2013 Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 They seem to forget some important facts that these countries will not forget like: The SOE is still active The protesters are on the move again to take over gov offices The farmers are blocking main transportation arteries throughout thailand. The farmers are getting ready to march into bkk to join protesters and close ministries. The gov is still being investigated by the NACC. Maybe the TAT believes that it is easy to mislead thai people but they will be looking at straight faces when they start talking to these other countries. Sent from my GT-S5310 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickyrice2000 Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 (edited) The promotion would work in Britain. Go promote there. Afterall, Thailand is the 2nd favorite destination. Edited February 6, 2014 by stickyrice2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post draftvader Posted February 6, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2014 Let me save you some time on this one. The marketing campaign you need to focus your time and money on is "Thailand 2015 - Should be over by then" 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thai at Heart Posted February 6, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2014 Shorten all long stay visa durations to 15 days. The numbers of arrivals will double 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yunla Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 President of the Tourism Council of Thailand (TCT) Piyaman Tejapaibul revealed that the TAT and the TCT will meet for the first time to discuss an emergency marketing plan to stimulate growth in the Thai tourism industry. The Force is strong in this one. At least I really hope so, as they have an incredibly rare and precious thing here and they can't afford to fumble it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thai at Heart Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 President of the Tourism Council of Thailand (TCT) Piyaman Tejapaibul revealed that the TAT and the TCT will meet for the first time to discuss an emergency marketing plan to stimulate growth in the Thai tourism industry. The Force is strong in this one. At least I really hope so, as they have an incredibly rare and precious thing here and they can't afford to fumble it. Hahaha. The hotel owners are going to meet the government promotion entity for the first time. <deleted>.... You would hope this would be every 2 weeks normally. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoisyourdaddy Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 No 3rd plan to bring "quality" tourists back? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
focus27 Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 What does "koasted" mean? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Local Drunk Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 An international airport in Pattaya would cover most of it... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Why ask Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 "with a focus on Hong Kong as the island city has koasted the highest level travel warning to Thailand." Maybe because it has a prob trying to quickly off-load some off-shore bank accounts belonging to Thai officials.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draftvader Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 On another point don't they think that this campaign might be more successful if they had used a hotter, younger, more scantily dressed, and available for cash, woman? At least it would have been more honest! Sorry, what I meant was "at least it would have been honest". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyBowskill Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Bring back the crappy Siamese cat bags and go ahead with the genius plan of marketing unwanted moldy rice at the airports. Problem fixed, simples! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chainarong Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 I don't know about H.K. but Australia's level includes the likely event of terrorist attacks, so how high can you get, pretty hard to promote a country that has it's main capital city in lock down under emergency decree, perhaps a ride in a tank will be on offer shortly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackr Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 (edited) 1, Lobby your 'government' to stop coming up with stupid ideas like charging tourists 500 baht to enter to dissuade 'non-quality' tourists. 2, Stop saying you prefer tourists from this or that country because they spend more (it craps all over the rest) 3, Run through all the jet-ski/taxi/tour scams (including bent cops) and string these people up on TV. 4, Get your house in order. 5, When you smile, mean it. Edited February 6, 2014 by jackr 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyman Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 "An old Mongolian Proverb: "When you see 2 bright eyes in the dark forest, it might not be a tiger, It might be 2 one eyed tigers" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Why ask Posted February 6, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2014 "An old Mongolian Proverb: "When you see 2 bright eyes in the dark forest, it might not be a tiger, It might be 2 one eyed tigers" No wonder Mongolia is fkd. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post belg Posted February 6, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2014 the only tourists that will come whatever happens, are off course the sexpats ... come to offload their seed and be two week millionaires... genuine tourists, they know better than to endanger their families 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulesMad Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 TAT strikes back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish fingers Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Am I the only one that will miss the trafficless centre? I feel bad for the small businesses currently suffering there but if they pedestrianized these areas after the protestors leave, it wd be good for business for sure. This has been done successfully in many european cities, maybe a way to give something back. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paz Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 the only tourists that will come whatever happens, are off course the sexpats ... come to offload their seed and be two week millionaires... genuine tourists, they know better than to endanger their families At one idiocy per line, I wonder how many you have accumulated with 2500 postings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upena Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 TAT doesn't know the meaning of the word "plan". All they know how to do is rename old campaigns and then attempt to promote them the way they did the old ones - poorly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertthebruce Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 the only tourists that will come whatever happens, are off course the sexpats ... come to offload their seed and be two week millionaires... genuine tourists, they know better than to endanger their families Well said, agree with you 100 percent.. ITS THE TRUTH... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Soutpeel Posted February 6, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2014 (edited) TAT doesn't know the meaning of the word "plan". All they know how to do is rename old campaigns and then attempt to promote them the way they did the old ones - poorly.TAT should donate their entire marketing budget to the PTP and let them pay some farmers Edited February 6, 2014 by Soutpeel 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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