TAT going all out to lure back Chinese tourists

[Lite Beer]

TAT going all out to lure back Chinese tourists
The Sunday Nation

BANGKOK: -- Tourism authorities are promoting Samui Island as a holiday destination for Chinese tourists.

Tourism Authority of Thailand deputy governor Pongsathorn Kessasamli yesterday inaugurated the White Honey Beach Party, which attracted 40 Chinese married couples including gymnast Guo Wei Yang, an Olympic gold medallist.

Pongsathorn described the event as a success in attracting Chinese tourists from different regions including Shanghai, Kunming, Chengdu and Guangzhou as well as Chinese reporters.

Meanwhile in Chiang Rai, a group of 28 Chinese tourists yesterday arrived on a river cruiser on the Mekong River after travelling from China's southern province of Yunnan.

They are the first group of Chinese tourists to come to Thailand via this route and means of transport in the past seven years.

They were welcomed by Chiang Rai's Tourism Industry Council vice president Vachira Rusameechan and immigration officials.

A large number of Chinese media members covered the 11-day voyage.

Photographer Chang Lee said he had taken many photos for publications and praised Thai immigration for its quick response to them entering the country.

Vachira said Chinese tourists in the past did not use this route due to security concerns, but that was changing and as a result more Chinese tourists would use the route.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/TAT-going-all-out-to-lure-back-Chinese-tourists-30238974.html

-- The Nation 2014-07-20

[terryp]

this is going to end in tears...thai tears

where i am the mass of Chinese tours have almost destroyed the local tourism industry...they basically book ALL the available places at rock bottom prices so other Nationality's cant even get on the tours......so they cant get to the attractions , so go to other areas of thailand

i used to stay at a very well known 4 star hotel in hatyai every 5/6 weeks ...no more its just over run with Chinese, breakfast was hell, they eat like pigs and try to take as much food with them as possible for the rest of the day...and thats not forgetting all the coughing spitting etc Inside the hotel , elevators waiting time as the Chinese play going up and down in them, the noise these people make is unreal ...then to top it off i found out the price they pay per room in China is 30% of what i pay in thailand

[NeverSure]

Once upon a time in a small village, someone went out and recruited the first dozen dummies he could find.

To those he said, "From now on you will be known as Turmoil and Translocation (TAT)"

[lostsoul49]

I keep reading articles on how TAT are concentrating on the Chinese tourist market much more than the rest of the world.

This is purely all because of 'vast numbers.' Which may make TAT look good because bigger numbers make them look better, but as far as the money tourism injects into the Thai economy is concerned, they will actually find the numbers going down.

I agree with those who say the Chinese are not the best people in the world, they are arrogant, spend very little and put other tourists off..... I would have to agree.

[Choonpon]

Oh no.....:0

[Kimagure]

Ok...

(Crosses Samui off list of holiday options)

[Tatsujin]

What happened to the push to get "quality" tourists, or have they given up on that now and are simply now going for quantity over quality once again cos it's not as much work?

[shirtless]

the Chinese tourists are only a benefit for Chinese tour operators and hoteliers, Their good for statistics but not great for local business,

[Payboy]

Photographer Chang Lee said he had taken many photos for publications

That's different from the wedding photographers who were arrested for working without a permit, yes.

[trainman34014]

What happened to the push to get "quality" tourists, or have they given up on that now and are simply now going for quantity over quality once again cos it's not as much work?

They've got them....''Low quality ''....and that's all they ever will get.

[HiSoLowSoNoSo]

When you have to "lure" someone back your product could not be that good. Attract or invite sounds more honest.

[wabothai]

TAT does not listen to the people they really ought to listen to. Like i said before there needs to be a clean sweep at TAT. They do more damage than good.

[Alwyn]

Everybody, including the Thais complain about the Chinese tourists yet TAT wants more of them? Why not put that effort (and expense) into marketing normal people?

[Borzandy]

Happily I'm not living in Samui.

[Tomtomtom69]

the Chinese tourists are only a benefit for Chinese tour operators and hoteliers, Their good for statistics but not great for local business,

Who are the TAT competing against anyway? What unnamed competition is out there that they constantly need to come up with bulls*** statistics that claim that despite every piece of evidence to the contrary that since at least 1987 and possibly earlier, that without exception there has always been an increase in tourist numbers year-on-year? No matter the political turmoil, bombings in the south, rip-offs, you name it, there's always more gullible tourists coming every year? I don't think so...

Is there a prize for the TAT at the end of all this? If there isn't, then I don't understand the hype. TAT - get a life. Seriously.

[Ulic]

The law of unintended consequences, you don't want zero baht Chinese tourists so you discourage them from coming.

Now you want the Chinese tourists to return. Chinese tour groups negotiate hard and low ball on bulk accommodation

rates. So remember you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. Just business so make up your mind

as to what you want and what you can be happy with.

[baboon]

The law of unintended consequences, you don't want zero baht Chinese tourists so you discourage them from coming.

Now you want the Chinese tourists to return. Chinese tour groups negotiate hard and low ball on bulk accommodation

rates. So remember you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. Just business so make up your mind

as to what you want and what you can be happy with.

Just what I was about to say. Look, you either want them or you don't - you can't keep changing your mind every five minutes - it isn't fair to anyone.

[Ricardo]

the Chinese tourists are only a benefit for Chinese tour operators and hoteliers, Their good for statistics but not great for local business,

Who are the TAT competing against anyway? What unnamed competition is out there that they constantly need to come up with bulls*** statistics that claim that despite every piece of evidence to the contrary that since at least 1987 and possibly earlier, that without exception there has always been an increase in tourist numbers year-on-year? No matter the political turmoil, bombings in the south, rip-offs, you name it, there's always more gullible tourists coming every year? I don't think so...

Is there a prize for the TAT at the end of all this? If there isn't, then I don't understand the hype. TAT - get a life. Seriously.

Surely the prize is the increased operating-budget, which more tourists would justify, when annual budget-time is approaching ?

[phanangpete]

yea and all i want ,is to be queing up behind Chinese tourists in 7/11 who have never been out of China, never seen a beach before, who cannot converse in basic anything.

Bring it on TAT, you have shown already how sucessful you've been with the Russians, who have been told by some border crossings not to appear !

The director of Tat needs to be inactivated pronto !

Edited July 21, 2014 by phanangpete

[JoeThePoster]

Just finished breakfast here at an hotel in HH. Saw the quality tourists emptying all the fruit juice into their flasks and filling up their backpacks with all the fruit n cheese before leaving on their high end day trips.

[natway09]

Why go all out to attract just "bums in the bed" tourists.

They just destroy the place & spend next to nothing.

TAT, you gonna sacrifice another island for short term gains,

The real tourist will stay away now

[outsider]

Might as well torpedo and sink the island.

[Cake Monster]

TAT will try to lure the unsuspected here, and the Thais will try and kill them all in Pattaya bay with either a Jet Ski, Ferry, or, as posted only today, a Banana Boat, and if that dont get them, then the food poisoning or Dengue certainly will.

The Chinese are starting to wake up as the Japanese did many years ago, and are avoiding places like Thailand, for safer, and better holidays in such places as good old blighty ( yes, the Chinese are the No1 tourists to the UK now )