jimbeam1 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Don't you need a Work Permit to volunteer? I wonder if the TAT will supply this? You do indeed. I looked into volunteering to help with hill tribe communities and found that there was no way I could do it as I am here on a retirement visa and I could not get a work permit even if I wanted one. Yet I see groups of young supposed volunteers traveling around so I suppose there must be a way for them to do it. Money,money,money It's a scammers world. jb1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonmarleesco Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 It'll help if there's a dose of reality interspersed throughout the optimistic rhetoric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbeam1 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 (edited) <shakes head in disbelief> What planet are these morons on at the TAT? Newly married couples will NOT want to "work" on their honeymoon, and the Work Permit issue is a problem which they won't even have considered. That's another 10 million baht down the drain (in someone's pocket). Maybe they have to volunteer to take a lady of the night/day to to their room with them. jb1 Edited March 18, 2014 by jimbeam1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam sen Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 bizarre. wonder who carried out the research and produced a feasibility study which recommended this as a way to improve tourism... i wouldnt employ them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbeam1 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Having never heard of honeyteering, I googled it and there are a few articles and promotions, but from what I saw, the market is absolutely minuscule, as would be expected, making a 10m baht budget to promote this look totally over the top. Has TAT come up with anything useful since the day someone created the Amazing Thailand campaign? How long ago was that? Oh so it doesn't mean shagging half way up the shear face of a Mountain then? jb1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimbathewhitelion Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 The idiot Thais again. Who wants to work during a Honeymoon, let alone in Thailand! Phuket - the husband found to commit suicide after falling from his balcony; Chiang Mai - (slow death) 10 years later on their anniversary, both are confirmed with lung cancer even though none smoke; Hua Hin - nothing bad to say, just going in order, but still it's Thailand; Samui - Husband skips out in middle of the night to go to 7/11, sleeps with bar girl & gets HIV. Sent from my iPad using Thaivisa Connect Thailand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Songhua Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 'Aaaaw hun, let's sleep in a little longer today... nudge nudge, wink wink'. 'Sorry sweetie, you know the terms of our honeyteering visa - I have to wash an elephant' 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidmann Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 sounds good ,do you need a wife or can i get one when i arrive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evadgib Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 (edited) Many come 'Honeyteering' upon divorce! Edited March 18, 2014 by evadgib Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbamboo Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaimat Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Don't you need a Work Permit to volunteer? I wonder if the TAT will supply this? You do indeed. I looked into volunteering to help with hill tribe communities and found that there was no way I could do it as I am here on a retirement visa and I could not get a work permit even if I wanted one. Yet I see groups of young supposed volunteers traveling around so I suppose there must be a way for them to do it. I learned many years ago that volunteer work can be well received and the legal requirements ignored until someone, a community, organisation etc. gets jealous, has the nose put out of joint and so on and very often over the most petty of reasons. Or a greedy official decides to make some quick money, and arrest the honeymooners for working without a permit. They will feel lots of love in a Thai jail, then again as they fork over the "fine". "Got a lot of love to give, but it sure will be some expensive, hot, sweaty, smelly love". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangon04 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 What a brilliant and innovative idea!........spend your honeymoon working for free in LOS........maybe clean up Lumpini Park.........keep the good ideas coming TAT. People the world over will be scrambling to get married to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity. A honeymoon spent in Lumpini Park would bring a new meaning to "shotgun wedding"! Maybe Suthep could start a new sideline as giving public blessings to the newlyweds, with photo op. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLP Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Have never heard of anything so stupid. Who the f--- thinks up these things? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chivo Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Unbelievable. The 'authorities' think they are so clever they can 'market' tourists to clean up and fix their social problems. And get us to pay to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brit1984 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 what next?... ... photography holidays for the blind? ... extreme adventure sports holidays for pregnant women? ... big game hunting for vegans? ... tour of isaan's quietest villages for stag do groups? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbamboo Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 (edited) They really must think foreigners are as stupid as they are. Edited March 18, 2014 by bigbamboo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unanimosity Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 "We got so much love to give" Yep you can just feel the love that is all around on the Streets of Bangkok and in the south. Yeah, only they don't give it without a bar fine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Sata Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 The touts and taxi drivers in Phuket need cleaning up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mok199 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 next they will be importing ''dolpins'', and promoting the ''come swim the the dolpins tour''....just stop the carnage on the roads....PLEASE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaullyW Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 "We've got so much love on sale" Fixed that right up 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimbathewhitelion Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 They really must think foreigners are as stupid as they are. Go to Soi Cowboy or Nana, any given night of the week and you would think that as well. Sent from my iPad using Thaivisa Connect Thailand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theslime Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Well, no money no honey. Sent from my SM-N9005 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app No Farang, No Satang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heybuz Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 volunteering starts at home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DekDaeng Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 yokels don't give a fuk about this place - why should anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebelplatoon Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Amazing Thailand indeed. Lets make it simple to attract tourists that ll do work for us for FREE that the government is supposed to do. And lets make things harder for people with businesses, employing people, that are here already. It all figures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baboon Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 If you want to volunteer, why not do so in somewhere like Bangladesh or the Central African Rupublic; really poor countries. There is plenty of money in Thailand - just look at what they drive, for example - they can pay if they want to. This whole 'we are but a poor people' act is wearing very thin in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrTuner Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 This whole 'we are but a poor people' act is wearing very thin in my opinion. The definition of poor has changed to "If your Vigo is older than 2 years, you're poor". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yippz56 Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 (edited) I thought someone must have researched this before coming up with a campaign, so did a search and found quite a few articles on "honeyteering" that changed my mind. This is one example: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/08/20/helpful.honeymooners.abroad/ Especially for Americans, I think, an exotic adventure to Thailand to work in some established project for part of their honeymoon would not be that awful and crazy a thing. Then they could travel to other places in-country or in the region, and start their marriage with an interesting experience in a faraway land. For cynical expats living here I know it might not sound like much, but remember the first time you came here, how it struck you, and why you came back? Personally I don't get why there are 4 pages of negative posts about this. Anyway, just my thoughts on the matter. Edited March 21, 2014 by yippz56 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangmod Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 If you pick places where volunteer work needs to be done, you do not pick the tourist spots, they are already spoilt with prostitution and bad for your honeymoon. Let the honey bears teach democracy in the Isaan provinces, that would benefit the country... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takkatan in the land Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 much more surrealistic and moronic is to invest in a company that you will never be able to manage more than 49 %, and there is long queue of foreigners willing to do it everyday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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