Beach chair vendors given customer-service training for AEC
PATTAYA:--More than 300 beach chair vendors from Pattaya and Jomtien beaches were given lessons in customer service and trademark piracy during a training session to prepare them for the upcoming ASEAN Economic Community.

Deputy Mayor Ronakit Ekasingh led the May 8 session organized by the Marine Department and regional Tourist Police branches.

Officials noted that police previously have received complaints from tourists about inappropriate behavior by beach chair and umbrella vendors. Such behavior included sales of pirated goods, illegally preventing parking in front of their section of beachfront, rude service, encroaching on other vendors’ areas and a general messy appearance of their own sections. - See more at: http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/beach-chair-vendors-given-customer-service-training-for-aec-37770#sthash.KiTrJxEU.dpuf

-- Pattaya Mail 2014-05-23

a shame they dont encourage them to pick up all the broken bottles and rusty cans that are exposed at low tides

Do you really think you can get a leopard to change his spots?

Another hilarious story.

The beach vendors behave like animals. Greedy animals.

I doubt more than 5% turned up for that meeting.

Low class people will forever be low class people.

So they're trying to un-Thai them?

Might take more than a few hours of training.

were given lessons in customer service and trademark piracy

With the handouts and powerpoints created on a PC with fake Windows, no doubt.

So they're trying to un-Thai them?

Might take more than a few hours of training.

were given lessons in customer service and trademark piracy

With the handouts and powerpoints created on a PC with fake Windows, no doubt.

I doubt they will change their ways in this lifetime

Now for a real challenge, take on the jet ski boys and try to get them to sit down for training. Maybe the Clock Work Orange approach

Plenty of competition down on the beach. I moved from my normal spot of 6 years when the new owners spent much of the time sleeping or playing cards with their friends and getting served with a drink or anything else became too much of a chore for me. Getting served a black coffee because "hab no milk" might have been excusable if there wasn't a 7/11 and a Family Mart barely 20 Metres away on the other side of Beach Road. Plus a fridge on the premises for storing beer.

However, no course could resolve the problems of how to deal with an Indian family of 4 who all want to share just the one deckchair and haggle over the price of it into the bargain. At least once a day.

another thing they could mention to them is that playing darts in the middle of a busy footpath is not the cleverest of ideas

Edited May 25, 201412 yr by slygeeza

The beach chair vendors make you feel right at home. That is if you are a slum dweller.

Half of the beach chair vendors are illegally set up on the public sections of the beach.

Are they being trained too?

The beach chair vendors make you feel right at home. That is if you are a slum dweller.

Half of the beach chair vendors are illegally set up on the public sections of the beach.

Are they being trained too?

If you are a non smoker forget about beach chairs. All the male vendors/touts smoke cigarettes all day. And it looks like at least 70% of the tourists in those chairs came to

Pattaya to smoke cigarettes

Edited May 28, 201412 yr by morrobay