webfact Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Ministry of Tourism and Sports organizes activities to promote tourism by nightBANGKOK, 7 January 2016 (NNT) – Tourism and Sports Minister Kobkan Watthanawarangkun disclosed that her agency is organizing activities to promote tourism such as lighting to attract tourists during the night and other activities.The main goal is to encourage tourists to stay one more night in Thailand, from an average number of nine nights per person to ten nights per person.In addition, the Ministry of Tourism and Sports will upgrade qualitative tourism within the first two quarters of this year by not focusing on the number of tourists but on revenues from tourism sector.-- NNT 2016-01-07 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratcatcher Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 "............ organizing activities to promote tourism such as lighting to attract tourists during the night and other activities." Very illuminating and no doubt, exciting to boot ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halloween Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 I thought night activities were already a major part of Thai tourism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
never me Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 They need lights in the spin factory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadGeordie Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Another bright idea from the Ministry of Silly Thoughts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davehowden Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Maybe sidewalks/ pavements that tourists can walk on whilst looking at the "lights" without breaking their necks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilsonandson Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 The night bazaar in Chiang Mai is a great idea. The tourism minister is right, more of the same please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenixdoglover Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 (edited) "............ organizing activities to promote tourism such as lighting to attract tourists during the night and other activities." Very illuminating and no doubt, exciting to boot ! Evidently, the Tourism Ministry thinks tourists are like flying insects. Anyway, I would say the nightlife in some parts of Thailand is more than adequate. Or is that not the type of activities we are promoting? Finally, you don't improve quality by focusing on revenue; you improve revenue by focusing on quality. Just another help tip for those bassackwards folks at the Ministry of Sports and Tourism. Edited January 7, 2016 by phoenixdoglover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NongKhaiKid Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 The minister should be going to bed early and getting a good night's sleep instead of staying up late working on daft ideas, projections based on fantasy and BS figures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upena Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 She should be focusing on ASEAN and not street lights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Somtamnication Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Crikey. Ladyboys have been in existence since before Julius Caesar. The honourable minister is about 2000 years too late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thian Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 At night the mosquito's come out, why the restaurants don't have free mosquitospray for their guests? Those curled smokethings don't work well. To promote tourism Thailand should have (develop) the best beaches of the world. Not loaded with ladyboys but with nice terraces, lights, music, good wooden chairs, boulevards for shopping, no noisy motobikes and soidogs, police, reefs, pina colada in coconuts, streetmusicians and jugglers and of course very good pavements/cheap transport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOC Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 >.The main goal is to encourage tourists to stay one more night in Thailand, from an average number of nine nights per person to ten nights per person.<< Quote So she expects John, Henry,and Hans after nine days doing what boys do in Pattaya, to stay an extra day to watch Lighting !! Good luck with that!! Dear Madame Popcorn: Any progress on the wristbands ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mancub Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 If this bright idea fails, then I suppose we could always apply article 44. making it compulsory to stay another night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM07 Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Lighting to attract tourists! You couldn't make this sh1t up, even if you tried really hard and be very drunk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torpedo1970 Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 "to promote tourism by night" Sounds like they will re-vamp Nana plaza Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOC Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 >>Tourism and Sports Minister Kobkan Watthanawarangkun disclosed that her agency is organizing activities to promote tourism such as lighting to attract tourists during the night and other activities.<< Quote So now Thailand is not only rainmakers, but have managed to control nature even further, so now they can organize lighting !! You couldn't make this up............................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredNL Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Another beer glass lifting contest / event??? All foreign tourists are leaving with their booked flights. They won't stay a night longer. Only the those that miss or missed their plane would. LOS A "S" for Stupidity ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plutojames88 Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 In today's Sydney Morning Herald there is a piece on the breach of DNA protocol and a forensic expert refuting Thai claims they have the murderers in a case ( we are all firmilar with) The article implies a cover up ..etc. Page 13. My point is Thais think people don't read. People like Juntas People don't mind being told when and what they can think or say. Or don't object to reading about their abuses and will somehow not only show up. But stay longer to look at pretty lights.? Maybe with Chinese New Year this might work. Westerner numbers are down And heading further south. They won't reveal so often the stats .( which are themselves bogus) But visiting a country with murderous cover ups and junta rule Propaganda and human rights abuses over the populace is not going to freely happen for you. 2016 might be the year come June when it's obvious that your economy and tourism is getting ill. The more stories that refuse to die ( Here) Then eventually many people say "" where else"?" when deciding . The truth is the place is not so alluring anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wabothai Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 In the beginning we had a good laugh reading your bs, mam. Now you are becoming rather annoying. Please go home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clockman Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Sounds like panic mode, or last ditch.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOC Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 In the beginning we had a good laugh reading your bs, mam. Now you are becoming rather annoying. Please go home. Problem is, she is home. Prayuth probably thinks, she is pure genius.................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somo Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Next big idea will be to cancel all outgoing flights 2 or 3 days/month. That would do it for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plutojames88 Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 99% of people asked why they continue staying in Thailand said ""bright lights"" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred Kubasa Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Lighting to encourage tourism ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CantSpell Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 (edited) Need to go fast on that BRILLIANT idea to be developed... I am been told that a few other countries now also have lighting during the night..... Competition is going to be tough... ---- Even TAT didn't dare announce this one lol Edited January 7, 2016 by CantSpell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redline Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 First, place proper lights on the roads and sois. Even main roads in BKK are not properly lit. Can't we make the place safe, and maybe clean first? People don't want to go out at night, if it's not safe. My mother used to say numb skull~it's a nice way to say retarded, which, by the way, is not a derogatory word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerojero Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Haha. Guess owners of Nana and Soi Cowboy not getting enough customers. TAT will help promote nightlife! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadGeordie Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Lighting to encourage tourism ?Of course, can't keep them in the dark like the "natives".;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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