TAT launches special campaign for tourists

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TAT launches special campaign for tourists



BANGKOK, 23 September 2015 (NNT) – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has joined hands with a private tourism company to promote the Thailand Stronger Together campaign with attractive offers from today until the end of October 2015.

The TAT has joined hands with Gullivers Travel Associates (GTA), a provider of tours and accommodation packages, to launch a campaign to boost tourism in Thailand named: ‘Thailand Stronger Together’.

The campaign's promotions includes various offers. Tourists will immediately receive an extra free night at selected hotels in Phuket after booking a night's accomodations, as well as discounts on food and drinks discounts, and tourists will be able to upgrade their accommodations hosted by GTA agents worldwide. Travelers can also receive free Stronger Together t-shirts by take a photo of themselves wearing shirt at selected hotels with '#ThailandStrongerTogether' included in the caption.

The campaign is an attempt to boost tourist confidence, and boost the nations’s tourism activity during the low-season, especially among travelers from Asia and the Middle-East which are considered short-haul travelers.

GTA agents have brought 1,256,148 travelers to Thailand in the previous year. TAT is positive that this campaign will help generate up to 250 million baht of revenue and remains confident that inbound tourists for the remainder of the year will reach the projected figure of 28.8 million, which would yield a 1.4 trillion baht income.


-- NNT 2015-09-23

[NOC]

Hearye hearye, boycott Gulliver's Travel Associates!

Wearing a t-shirt to promote a destination where others will be hurt, ripped-off or treated with disdain, especially by the police, is tantamount to the criminal charge of depraved indifference.

Why would anyone knowingly want to put others in harms way?

[englishoak]

This just HAS to be for Thai tourism for Thais. How on earth is a slogan like that welcoming or encouraging for foreign tourists ?

Stronger together sounds like a protest slogan or for peoples rights or something...or a recruiting program

Amazing tourist campaign it sure aint.

Edited September 22, 2015 by englishoak

[Just1Voice]

What they mean by "Stronger Together" is that it is easier for 4, 6 ,8 of them to jump on a tourist to stomp him into a pulp, than it is for one.

[Chupup]

Who on earth dreams this stuff up, do they get paid with pea nuts, surly, school children could do better

[tomacht8]

That is a mastermind idea, to give free t-shirts. That will be the marketing cracker. In addition they could also give some free noodle soups and free toilett paper.

[madmitch]

This just HAS to be for Thai tourism for Thais. How on earth is a slogan like that welcoming or encouraging for foreign tourists ?

Stronger together sounds like a protest slogan or for peoples rights or something...or a recruiting program

Amazing tourist campaign it sure aint.

This campaign, without the catchy slogan, has been reported elsewhere as being aimed at the domestic market. Like you I really don't understand the reasoning behind the slogan; it does sound like something political.

On another point, what's happened to the new 30m projection for tourist numbers? Looks like we're back to the old figure.

Can't wait for next week's announcement, though there are plenty more tourism departments to produce some more conflicting reports in the next couple of days.

[greenchair]

They should write a book.

How to get people to support a political campaign , without them knowing it.!!!

There will be no colour divide.

Only a national unity state.

Because thailand is special.

[Kitsune]

Tourists don't want a lousy Tshirt and they already know Thailand is cheap.

What they want is the assurance not to be ripped off, raped, or killed.

[waldroj]

Gullible Travel would be more appropriate - and they will get a T-shirt to prove it!

[jaywalker]

What they mean by "Stronger Together" is that it is easier for 4, 6 ,8 of them to jump on a tourist to stomp him into a pulp, than it is for one.

I find it sad that nobody recalls poor old Gulliver.

The name of the travel agency says it all.

Edited September 23, 2015 by jaywalker

[phoenixdoglover]

"Stronger Together" has a sort of Junta-esque feel to it. Kind of like Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer.

In addition to the tee-shirt, each participant will receive an A4 sized glossy photograph of the Prime Minister, suitable for framing.

[ratcatcher]

Tourists are advised to travel together in herds to avoid the predators that can be found at popular resorts such as Phuket, Pattaya and Samui. There's strength in numbers

Remember, it's a jungle out there. Welcome to Untamed Thailand.

Edited September 23, 2015 by ratcatcher

[KIWIBATCH]

...duh...Thailand has got so lawless that it is now....SAFER TOGETHER.........

Who comes up with these slogans.....another "fail" from TAT

[quandow]

So much for "Discover Thainess." Can't wait to see how well THIS campaign fails flourishes.

[MockingJay]

Missing the phrase "to lure in tourists" in the headline and text... and no finger pointing or photo of some Chinese "quality tourists"... boring!

[AGareth2]

a few more billion Baht wasted on marketing

[Praematura]

Can't wait for the Chinese tour groups wearing these stupid, but free T-shirts en mass. I can see them marching lock step behind their handlers beaming with happiness in getting a free t-shirt.

The stronger together propaganda is so transparent it's obvious. If your against the junta your somehow against their concept of government and implicit that your not supportive of Thailand. These simpletons.

Edited September 23, 2015 by Praematura

[captspectre]

This just HAS to be for Thai tourism for Thais. How on earth is a slogan like that welcoming or encouraging for foreign tourists ?

Stronger together sounds like a protest slogan or for peoples rights or something...or a recruiting program

Amazing tourist campaign it sure aint.

This campaign, without the catchy slogan, has been reported elsewhere as being aimed at the domestic market. Like you I really don't understand the reasoning behind the slogan; it does sound like something political.

On another point, what's happened to the new 30m projection for tourist numbers? Looks like we're back to the old figure.

Can't wait for next week's announcement, though there are plenty more tourism departments to produce some more conflicting reports in the next couple of days.

[captspectre]

This just HAS to be for Thai tourism for Thais. How on earth is a slogan like that welcoming or encouraging for foreign tourists ?

Stronger together sounds like a protest slogan or for peoples rights or something...or a recruiting program

Amazing tourist campaign it sure aint.

This campaign, without the catchy slogan, has been reported elsewhere as being aimed at the domestic market. Like you I really don't understand the reasoning behind the slogan; it does sound like something political.

On another point, what's happened to the new 30m projection for tourist numbers? Looks like we're back to the old figure.

Can't wait for next week's announcement, though there are plenty more tourism departments to produce some more conflicting reports in the next couple of days.

[ronwparker]

They really need to as Thailand is getting a bad reputation (Koh Tao farce,Temple bombing blunders.known RTP corruption etc) around the world and is getting more Chinese tourists who spend less per head than most farang.

[ratcatcher]

...duh...Thailand has got so lawless that it is now....SAFER TOGETHER.........

Who comes up with these slogans.....another "fail" from TAT

I must take exception to your comment.

"SAFER TOGETHER" was my slogan. It came to me after being inspired by the imaginative and memorable "STRONGER TOGETHER" used by TAT.

[taony]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_New_York

Going strong since 1977. But here they change every couple months to things more and more nonsensical each time.

[ramrod711]

Remember this? My favorite tourist scheme in Thailand.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/665154-jasmine-rice-to-be-sold-as-souvenir-at-thai-airports/

[waldroj]

...duh...Thailand has got so lawless that it is now....SAFER TOGETHER.........

Who comes up with these slogans.....another "fail" from TAT

I must take exception to your comment.

"SAFER TOGETHER" was my slogan. It came to me after being inspired by the imaginative and memorable "STRONGER TOGETHER" used by TAT.

A job awaits you at TAT!

[ratcatcher]

...duh...Thailand has got so lawless that it is now....SAFER TOGETHER.........

Who comes up with these slogans.....another "fail" from TAT

I must take exception to your comment.

"SAFER TOGETHER" was my slogan. It came to me after being inspired by the imaginative and memorable "STRONGER TOGETHER" used by TAT.

A job awaits you at TAT!

They already refused my application on the grounds "You falang, you know too mutt"

[wabothai]

TAT bookkeeper musketteers on the barricades.

[Sam Jones]

Somebody is getting desperate up to their "High Season" ... Maybe bookings is not as hoped for ... Another failure for TAT