TAT unveils new campaign to promote “honeyteering”

[jimbeam1]

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

[Jonmarleesco]

It'll help if there's a dose of reality interspersed throughout the optimistic rhetoric.

[jimbeam1]

<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

[sam sen]

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.

[jimbeam1]

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

[kimbathewhitelion]

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.

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[Songhua]

'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'

[davidmann]

sounds good ,do you need a wife or can i get one when i arrive

[evadgib]

Many come 'Honeyteering' upon divorce!

Edited March 18, 2014 by evadgib

[bigbamboo]

[thaimat]

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".

[bangon04]

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.

[DLP]

Have never heard of anything so stupid. Who the f--- thinks up these things?

[chivo]

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.

[brit1984]

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?

[bigbamboo]

They really must think foreigners are as stupid as they are.

Edited March 18, 2014 by bigbamboo

[unanimosity]

"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.

[Jay Sata]

The touts and taxi drivers in Phuket need cleaning up.

[mok199]

next they will be importing ''dolpins'', and promoting the ''come swim the the dolpins tour''....just stop the carnage on the roads....PLEASE

[PaullyW]

"We've got so much love on sale"

Fixed that right up

[kimbathewhitelion]

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.

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[theslime]

Well, no money no honey.

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No Farang, No Satang.

[heybuz]

volunteering starts at home

[DekDaeng]

yokels don't give a fuk about this place - why should anyone else?

[rebelplatoon]

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.

[baboon]

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.

[DrTuner]

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".

[yippz56]

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

[Bangmod]

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...

[takkatan in the land]

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