webfact Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Minister hopes Pokemon Go will save Thailand's tourism industry Image: Sanook BANGKOK: -- The Thai tourism minister is promoting Pokémon Go to increase tourism confidence in the wake of last week's bombs. Kobkarn Wattanawarangun has come up with the idea of a booklet for master Pokémon players - it will tell them how to excel at the game and where to find the best places to play, reported Sanook. Not only this - Kobkarn is talking to the game makers in Japan to increase the numbers of rare Pokémon as well as Pokestops and gyms used for playing the game. She wants to see the cartoon characters inhabit tourist areas and appropriate places. Maps and information called "Infographic" have been produced to inspire the tourists and help them forget all about the outrages of last Thursday and Friday in Hua Hin and other southern towns. It is all part of an "Expat for Fun" initiative encouraging visitors to seek out Thai culture, shopping, tours and various food festivals. Source: Sanook -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2016-08-17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkidlad Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 #tourismsaved not good to be this reliant on tourism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphere Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Quote She wants to see the cartoon characters inhabit tourist areas and appropriate places. I'm pretty sure, I already seen Hello Kitty in Nana..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thailand Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 I literally just spilt my coffee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shirtless Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 It amazes me they could have such poor politicians, fix the issues would be a good start Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAG Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Desperation setting in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NongKhaiKid Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Words Fail ! About time the people in white lab coats carrying a huge butterfly net came for this lady. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eligius Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 How pathetic! If a peanut had a brain, it would be bigger than hers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiSoLowSoNoSo Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 OMG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattaya28 Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Where shall we go on holiday ? Ahh Thailand has a booklet for master Pokémon players. Yes. Let's go there. 49 minutes ago, webfact said: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huanga Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 To save tourism industry - get this minister out of the office would be a first step in the right direction. Concrete plan with bold points on steps necessary (more lax visa rules, better infrastructure, harsh penalty for scams/cheats, etc) to attract tourists, and not marketing propaganda (inviting only the rich, clamp-down on the red light district and now the Pokémon) Hot air and nothing will get done except for her probably going to temple everyday and asking the Oh Mighty Buddha to realize some achievement for her for doing absolutely nada to improve the tourism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NongKhaiKid Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Imagine somewhere in the world people are planning a holiday and preferably they're the much vaunted quality tourists with cash to flash. They could go to any of the world's great cities with sights, history and the highest of high end shopping or to countries with the most pristine of beaches. NO, they'll come to LoS to chase Pokemon because despite having it in their own country this is Thai Pokemon so it must be special ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Somtamnication Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Like Democracy GO! Impossible to catch all of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borzandy Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Sure. because it's well known Pokemon Go was invented by Thais. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartender100 Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 They really don't have a clue, do they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatOngo Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Innovative idea!.......the three Pikachus she has found equal her IQ. Can't wait for the book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inn Between Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 (edited) I swear there's some weird contest going on in the junta gov't to see who can say the most ridiculously outrageous thing. She may have just taken the lead. Edited August 17, 2016 by Inn Between Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphMichaels Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 This is just too funny!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattaya28 Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 And just a week ago there was talk of "Banning" Pokemon Go in Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 But I thought it was going to be banned (IMHO it ought to be). Just what's needed, hoards of tourists (of a certain nationality), who seem to have zero spacial awareness anyway, wandering around with their heads in their phones. EDIT Great minds think alike P28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konfuzed Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 If she's talking to a company in Japan, then she's looking the wrong way. Niantic, the makers of the game, are a Californian company. Way at to save Thailand!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NongKhaiKid Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 4 minutes ago, Inn Between said: I swear there's some weird contest going on in the junta gov't to see who can say the most ridiculously outrageous thing. She may have just taken the lead. As a commentator might say " they're turning into the home straight and no one's going to catch her ! " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colabamumbai Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Ghosts don't work, let's try Pokemon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brer Fox Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 This new tourism promotion gimmick is almost but not quite as innovative as her earlier tourism promo brainchild that being to eliminate prostitution in Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LennyW Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowboat Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 4 minutes ago, Crossy said: But I thought it was going to be banned (IMHO it ought to be). Just what's needed, hoards of tourists (of a certain nationality), who seem to have zero spacial awareness anyway, wandering around with their heads in their phones. EDIT Great minds think alike P28 Yeah, I was just looking for the link: http://tech.thaivisa.com/thai-government-threatens-to-ban-pokemon-go/16757/ Interesting how the current military lead government can change their mind so fast. The only way to change Thailand, it seems, is from the outside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huanga Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Pokémon Go in Thailand will probably go like this - catch, jump, catch.....oh crap, it's an actual bomb. Pokemon Go-to-pieces Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatOngo Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 And the next big attraction!......Come and see wayward hoon street racers and fighting tech college students...the possibilities are endless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckamuck Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 To the makers of Pokemon. Please put more Pokemon at all of the recent bomb locations in Thailand. We would like to attract more people to these locations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misterwhisper Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Perhaps Thailand should develop its own version of that wretched game, because they surely do have very strange creatures popping up everywhere all the time - including Kobkarn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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