Weeklong New Year holiday spurs 30 million baht spendings by 20 million Thais

[marcusd]

Give happiness to the people in stupid headlines!

[dcutman]

Im calling total BS on this headline..... they are just making the whole thing up.

Seriously they dont have a clue about these kind of stats, they cant track peoples movements and they cant collate info like this especially within such a short timeframe...its simply made up BS.

I am with you on this one. 90%++ of the transactions are in cash, there is no why anybody could know how much was spent this new year holiday. Not this soon any way and more than half of those cash transactions are not reported.

[Shaunduhpostman]

Jing law? 20 million Thais spent 30 million baht each on New Years?!

Khon Thai jai dee mak mak! Handsum too mutt!?

[crazygreg44]

as one poster already mentioned, with the 5 days-holidays not even over yet, it was ay to early to claim how much these 20 millions of travellers spent. So the figure is just an assumption and has been dreamed up by somebody velly velly important to make a headline in the news.

If they could only could proofread their dreamed up numbers. 1500 THB per person in five days ( while we have not yet decided over the fact that the mentioned "week-long" is a week is SEVEN days !!!) is what they spend at home, at least most of them. So does this mean the thai people are the cheapest of the cheapest tourists of their own country ?

Like so many others I'm sure the fuel bill for my round trip holiday drive was Bt 100 short of being double what Thais were supposed to have spent over 5 days.

Something wrong somewhere so just where did the spokesman pluck his figures from ?

. coz it is a lie, a dreamed up figure. They are government employed and they do need to utter some shit from time to time. If they don't utter any shit at all, someone like Prayut might think they are useless

[crazygreg44]

shows, again and again, how useless the majority of government administrators are. They reside over an useles convolution of piling up paperwork which they do not understand. Onlt because it has always been that way, are they bereft of their positions.

Franz Kafka would have loved this place and would have been inspired a lot

[rickirs]

Didn't the Junta pass legislation that allowed Thais an income tax deduction for vacationing in Thailand? So the tax avoidance on Bt30 billion results in a revenue loss for the government which is aready spending off-budget billions for agricultural subsidies and consumer benefits. Thailand really needs 20 million foreign tourists.

[Beetlejuice]

This is the first working day after the holidays yet these figures are available already !

That`s because the Association chairman was given a calculator for Christmas after his pencil lead broke.