webfact Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Thailand expects 4.3 million Chinese visitors this yearBy Digital ContentBANGKOK, Aug 18 -- The Tourism Authority of Thailand expects that the number of Chinese tourists visiting the country this year will reach 4.3 million as Thailand has waived visa fees for Chinese and Taiwanese tourists for the first three months.TAT Governor Thawatchai Arunyik said that visa fees were exempted for Chinese and Taiwanese visitors from August 9 to November 8 this year as the National Council for Peace and Order wants to stimulate Thai tourism in the last quarter of the year.Mr Thawatchai hopes the measure will increase the number of Chinese and Taiwanese arrivals to 400,000-500,000 per month, up from 200,000-300,000 per month during the previous months of political turmoil.The TAT governor said long holidays to celebrate Chinese National Day in October would help boost the number of Chinese visitors to Thailand. He expects 4.3 million Chinese to visit Thailand this year, more than his previous forecast of 3.98 million.Meanwhile, immigration police have opened Chinese lanes at six Airports of Thailand (AOT) and has also assigned Chinese-speaking staffs to facilitate Chinese arrivals. (MCOT online news)-- TNA 2014-08-19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terryp Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 i truly hate to think what thailand is going to be like in a few years......guangzhou airport on a bad day springs to mind. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post EricBerg Posted August 19, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 19, 2014 When a TAT official speaks nothing but flowers comes out of his mouth. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrLom Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 i truly hate to think what thailand is going to be like in a few years......guangzhou airport on a bad day springs to mind. Tell me a good day at Guangzhou airport! Or Chongqing for that matter.... I waited 14 hours to fly to Pudong... 14 hours after my delayed 2 hourly choice of flight!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NongKhaiKid Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 He checked the TAT calendar and this is marked as another press release ' increase ' day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkkjames Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 so will all these stay in fancy 4-5 star hotels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrtoad Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Looking for the cheapest rooms, and negotiating prices for Som Tam. Ask people in Hong Kong about Chinese Tourism....... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginjag Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Chinese lanes at 6 airports ??? immigration. Europeans ?? Just stand in line and wait for the Chinese to pass through quickly, Any one else feels like they are third class people, after all we were the first to put Thai tourism on the map and give this TAT VIP cronies work. They make me sick with this flannel for greed--- 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NongKhaiKid Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 i truly hate to think what thailand is going to be like in a few years......guangzhou airport on a bad day springs to mind. Tell me a good day at Guangzhou airport! Or Chongqing for that matter.... I waited 14 hours to fly to Pudong... 14 hours after my delayed 2 hourly choice of flight!! The first time I heard of White Cloud airport, if still called that, was in the late '70s when ATC nearly landed a commercial flight on top of a taxing military transport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post lostinisaan Posted August 19, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 19, 2014 (edited) Chinese lanes at 6 airports ??? immigration. Europeans ?? Just stand in line and wait for the Chinese to pass through quickly, Any one else feels like they are third class people, after all we were the first to put Thai tourism on the map and give this TAT VIP cronies work. They make me sick with this flannel for greed--- These "lowest quality tourists" behave like priczs. I've seen quite a few "tourists" spitting in hotel pools as it would be normal. One got dismissed by a pool guard, but he was a guest, so a warning was all he could get. My gf swam in this pool when it happened and I saw it....so no second hand experience. I hit him with some ice cubes pretty bad, but he had no idea where they came from. Free ice cubes for all of them.!!!!! Edited August 19, 2014 by lostinisaan 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NongKhaiKid Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Looking for the cheapest rooms, and negotiating prices for Som Tam. Ask people in Hong Kong about Chinese Tourism....... At least HK developers saved money on not having to worry about too many toilets in shopping malls etc. as Mainland tourists don't need them Due to past connections I still read the South China Morning Post and some of the complaints are disgusting, always women, happy to crap anywhere including in shopping malls. No mistake as Mainlanders stick out like a sore thumbs in HK and increasingly elsewhere too it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyLew Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 I believe him ...I saw 5 Chinese coming from Suvarnabhumi Airport on the rail; link on Sunday - with suitcases So by TAT majic math, the total should be over 5 million at least Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jonclark Posted August 19, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 19, 2014 Chinese lanes at 6 airports ??? immigration. Europeans ?? Just stand in line and wait for the Chinese to pass through quickly, Any one else feels like they are third class people, after all we were the first to put Thai tourism on the map and give this TAT VIP cronies work. They make me sick with this flannel for greed--- Its not greed, its desperation. TAT needs to keep pushing up the numbers. A singularly Asian trait is that bigger, larger. noiser, more expensive, more lavish etc = better. Don't feel third class whatever you do. Do you really need immigration / TAT to massage your ego? I doubt it. Let the Chinese have their six lanes. Personally i'm glad they have been separated from the rest. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisY1 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Great news.......but it won't eventuate......TAT love their budgets... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginjag Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Great news.......but it won't eventuate......TAT love their budgets... Every month a so called new/statement/prediction/expect......................TAT budget, it was at one time estimated at 6 billion baht per year, and there is the sports tourism and another tourist department, how much are they allocated. If I had their budget I could swan around up market resorts on seminars with another 50 paid for hangers on.--Make one Tourism authority, with a tight budget with a person who makes statements that do not emerge from the rear end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MobileContent Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Let them come. Tourism numbers from the West are declining so it makes sense to focus on Chinese, Indian and Indonesian inbound for Thailand. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Flint Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Looking for the cheapest rooms, and negotiating prices for Som Tam. Ask people in Hong Kong about Chinese Tourism....... I thought there were plenty of chinese/thasi in Bangkok, farangs prefer by all accounts, and they are clever little ones too. Thai ladies must love the sam sam sam chinse folk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Flint Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Let them come. Tourism numbers from the West are declining so it makes sense to focus on Chinese, Indian and Indonesian inbound for Thailand. SIR You need a job with the Thai Touist Board Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkkjames Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Let them come. Tourism numbers from the West are declining so it makes sense to focus on Chinese, Indian and Indonesian inbound for Thailand. SIR You need a job with the Thai Touist Board They used to call these 0 dollar tours - are these new ones the same of FITs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luk AJ Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Gleet news! Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect Thailand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MobileContent Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Let them come. Tourism numbers from the West are declining so it makes sense to focus on Chinese, Indian and Indonesian inbound for Thailand. SIR You need a job with the Thai Touist Board Not really We all know TAT but for the company I am working we bring in around 35k-40k Chinese tourists to Thailand every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginjag Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Let them come. Tourism numbers from the West are declining so it makes sense to focus on Chinese, Indian and Indonesian inbound for Thailand. Last week was it when it said Chinese figures were down 20%. If westerners figures are declining, Why---no money in the west ? or they are well now aware of the rip offs ? they also do not like twin tariffs ?? dirty beaches and seas more noticeable. Truth also be known that most westerners do not like the hoards of Chinese crowding the shops and showing off their latest bad habits and now getting preferential treatment. This is nothing to do with racist it's to do with the massive influx. If we all remember in the early Spain holiday days, when influx of crowds from other countries people classed it as an intrusion----this is wrong I know-but this is the way the world works. I also there is some truth in that here, on the Jomptien beach donkeys years ago we westerners thought it was ours, (it wasn't) but we thought like that -when you got loads of loud mouthed Chinese next to you it puts you off----Bad attitude I know but natural. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 ...and there are still people out there thinking this is good news. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonbridgebrit Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 ...and there are still people out there thinking this is good news. Well, it might be not so good news for foreigners in Thailand, but what about the Thais themselves ? How do they feel ? In all honesty, the Thaksin Party, Abhisit and the Democrats, the junta, all three of them, are any of them interested in reducing the number of Chinese tourists ? Are any of them in favour of reducing Thailand's economic ties with China ? Maybe we should look at the USA and the European Union, and tell them that they should also reduce the number of Chinese tourists going to their countries ? Maybe we should tell America and the European Union to reduce their imports of Chinese manufactured goods ? Maybe we should tell Australia to reduce their exports of iron ore (and all other raw materials) to China. After all, China won't be able to export it's manufactured goods if it can't import loads of raw materials. And if they don't have a massive trade surplus, well, they can't send loads of tourists to Thailand, right ?? Where's their money going to come from ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kleelof Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 2.3 million Chinese. That must equate to about 1.1 million dollars in revenue for Thailand. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Aleman Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Yeah right and I expect an 18 yr. old naked Marlynn Monroe look a like to knock on my door 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Off topic posts have been removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickGC Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Good luck to them. The more the merrier. They run the place financially already anyway - family connections. Why would they not want to come here for a cheap holiday? Same as most of you lot on here criticizing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainman34014 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 More floods coming....this time of spit ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadGeordie Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Love it... And I expect to be pissed if I finnish this bottle of BLACK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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