Chinese-speaking tour guides ask authorities to control illegal tour guides
By Digital Content

BANGKOK, Oct 6 -- The Mandarin Tour Guide Club of Thailand has filed a complaint with the Immigration Bureau to clamp down on unlicensed Chinese tour guides.

Paisarn Suethanuwong, secretary-general of the Professional Tourist Guide Association of Thailand, led more than 30 members of the Mandarin Tour Guide Club to lodge the complaint saying that illegal Chinese tour guides, giving poor service quality, tarnished Thailand’s tourism image.

Mr Paisarn said at least 8,000 people were engaged in illegal tour businesses.

Due to poor service and false information provided by illegal tour guides, Thailand has recently became unpopular among Chinese tourists, he said, adding that he was also afraid that transnational crime could occur in relation to illegal tour businesses.

Illegal tour guides also came from Russia, South Korea and Vietnam, he said. The association will file a similar complaint to the Ministry of Tourism and Sports later. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2014-10-06

Just wait until ASEAN starts.

I am sure there are thousands of Thai tour-guides who are perfect in Russian and Korean language.

If there aren't replace these "illegal" tour guides with who?

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/753692-chiang-mai-thai-tour-guides-accuse-chinese-of-stealing-clients/

"30 members of the Mandarin Tour Guide Club lodged the complaint saying that illegal Chinese tour guides, giving poor service quality, tarnished Thailand’s tourism image".

The authorities agreed they did not need illegal tour guides as they are quite capable of tarnishing the tourism image themselves.

"Thailand has recently became unpopular among Chinese tourists,"

Arai wa?

Who really gives a fig........?

Im sure the local Thai tour guides will in their "unique" way do this for the govt..................the <deleted>

"giving poor service quality" Oh, General Joe, Chinese tour guides actually speak Chinese. not take tourists to gem dealer and sister massaggee. Please help -- make Thai look bad.

Ok?

"Due to poor service and false information provided by illegal tour guides, Thailand has recently became unpopular among Chinese tourists, he said,

adding that he was also afraid that transnational crime could occur in relation to illegal tour businesses."

Poor service quality and misinformation, you say? I suspect those are precisely the reasons Chinese prefer their own countrymen to Thais.

I think that the practice of herding the Chinese onto buses, telling them when they can eat, drink, piss and poo. Only taking them to places where huge commissions are paid to the guides before dumping them back in their hotel and telling them to go to sleep as they have to be up at 0700 the next morning to get on another bus for yet another day of ''guided tourism' is far more likely to be putting them off.

So many of the Chinese tourists are only seen as window lickers are they peer myopically from their bus windows at the ''free world'' beyond the glass.

From other news:

"Mr Paisarn said club members had heard of Chinese guides behaving improperly by urinating in open areas or giving false information to tourists. They lack understanding about Thai culture and focus solely on profit making"

That sounds exactly like Thai style to me

Sounds like some one's mad that someone else is making the money.

Who really gives a fig........?

You obviously care enough to make a comment.