Thai Tourism Wants to Open Military Facilities to Lure Chinese Tourists

[Bluespunk]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

She said the TAT had also prepared to improve the structure of the Chinese market to be of a quality grade by holding more activities. For example, some Chinese tourists have visited Thailand many times but never taken a bicycle ride around the Rattanakosin Island.

TAT always astounds me with just how inane and crass their press statements can be.

 

[reenatinnakor]

They need to open up casinos and make gambling legal to lure the chinese. Not open up a boat.

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[cruisemonkey]

2 hours ago, thai3 said:

Should stick to what they are good at and what 'lures' the most people- prostitution 

Mr. Wang's wang agrees.

[hawker9000]

They need to open up casinos and make gambling legal to lure the chinese. Not open up a boat.

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Lol. Yeah, just what the country needs. Trade the vice, exploitation and boatloads of cash from prostitution for the vice, big money skimming, chaos and gangland crime from a newly hatched, babe-in-the-woods gambling industry. Pattaya's going to compete with Macau, Vegas, Monte Carlo?? Yeah, right. Sure it is.

The country that made world news busting some geriatric bridge-players is now suddenly going to legalize gambling and morph into the new Macau. It almost qualifies as science-fiction.

A few nicely fitted out casinos might do well and attract a few more Chinese (as if that's what Pattaya really needs...), but they're not going to magically transform Pattaya into a mecca for high-rollers. It's a hairbrained idea. Gee ... that NEVER happens...

[reenatinnakor]

Lol. Yeah, just what the country needs. Trade the vice, exploitation and boatloads of cash from prostitution for the vice, big money skimming, chaos and gangland crime from a newly hatched, babe-in-the-woods gambling industry. Pattaya's going to compete with Macau, Vegas, Monte Carlo?? Yeah, right. Sure it is.

The country that made world news busting some geriatric bridge-players is now suddenly going to legalize gambling and morph into the new Macau. It almost qualifies as science-fiction.

A few nicely fitted out casinos might do well and attract a few more Chinese (as if that's what Pattaya really needs...), but they're not going to magically transform Pattaya into a mecca for high-rollers. It's a hairbrained idea. Gee ... that NEVER happens...

Not in Pattaya but more remote and hard to get to and make it expensive for locals to gamble so they don't get addicted! Just copy what Singapore and Malaysia did, seemed to have worked for them.

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[Retiredandhappyhere]

It's about time they found some use for those bases and all their equipment.  Trouble is that a few tourists might make a good excuse to buy more carriers and submarines.  Thailand must be almost the only country in the World that buys all this stuff purely for tourism.

[natway09]

This is a joke,,,,, right?

[elgordo38]

6 hours ago, phantomfiddler said:

How many tourists does a country need ! There are already too many !

They want to suck us dry in water that is. 

[elgordo38]

Waterboarding display in building 1

[outsider]

9 hours ago, jerojero said:

Another retardrd idea with no basis or practicality. Sheesh!

 

 

Agreed. Truly stupid. I wonder what made them think, or which stupid git came up with this idea, that Chinese tourists wanted on their travel agenda a visit to see 'Thai military might'. And if they really wanted to see some military hardware, their own country has more to show than Thailand.

[outsider]

5 hours ago, SpeakeasyThai said:

Why pander to these people, especially as the Thais themselves find them uncouth and rude? May i recommend TAT invests in spitoons to be placed in areas Chinese frequent in Thailand! 

 

It's the money. Or perception that the Chinese, being the world's nouveau rich, will bring in plane-loads of cash. Sure, the Thais don't really like the mainlanders (not many people do, not just the Thais), they really are rude and uncouth (to put it mildly), but on the same note, the Thais can't say no to money. And this is perhaps another desperate attempt to lure the Chinese, as their arrival numbers have apparently dropped due to the discovery and subsequent ban of the 'zero-dollar tour' scam. Speaking of which, the Chinese also have a very sensitive nose for scams, since they're quite accomplished masters of this art themselves, so the Thais are not doing themselves any favours what with their idiotic scams and double-pricing schemes.

[daveAustin]

The Chinese wouldn't specifically book a holiday on the back of the potential to visit naval vessels when they could probably do that at home, would they? Surely people come to Thailand not for its armed forces, but to drool over her temples, elephants and beaches . 

[impulse]

9 hours ago, reenatinnakor said:

They need to open up casinos and make gambling legal to lure the chinese. Not open up a boat.

 Not mutually exclusive.  Back home, riverboat gambling and gambling cruises just out to international waters are huge business.  Strange rules related to who has jurisdiction over certain areas.  But certainly no stranger than Thai laws.  

 

Do like they do in Seoul, foreign passport required to gamble, so the burden of the vice doesn't negatively impact the locals.

[ratcatcher]

"Thai Tourism Wants to Open Military Facilities to    Lure   Attract   Chinese Tourists"

Not wishing to be too pedantic BUT.........The people who are employed at The Ministry of Tourism and The Tourism Authority of Thailand would do well to use a better choice of words in some of their announcements.  LURE has the same charm as entice and seduce. Animals are lured into a trap with bait etc.    Attract is a more positive word when relating to tourists,. as the dictionary says.......

"Attract".........cause to come to a place or participate in a venture by offering something of interest, favorable conditions, or opportunities. (Not a fleecing or scams)

"a campaign to attract more visitors to West Virginia"

[champers]

Maybe they want them for target practice.

[SiSePuede419]

The first place I want to visit when hitting the tarmac in a foreign country is military bases.

 

But I noticed in some countries the soldiers refuse to point the gun at your head when taking pictures! ?

[wakeupplease]

Reeks of desperation

 

[PatOngo]

This, is a lure!

[JAG]

This, is a lure!

Unfortunately there are those in authority who are under the misapprehension that it is a submarine, with two badly stowed anchors!

[elgordo38]

20 hours ago, outsider said:

 

Agreed. Truly stupid. I wonder what made them think, or which stupid git came up with this idea, that Chinese tourists wanted on their travel agenda a visit to see 'Thai military might'. And if they really wanted to see some military hardware, their own country has more to show than Thailand.

If you throw enough stupid ideas (you know) at a wall eventually some sticks. 

[outsider]

4 hours ago, PatOngo said:

This, is a lure!

 

C'mon mate, be a sport, remove those barbs. Hahaha...

[Psimbo]

I want some of what this woman smokes- it certainly expands the mind.

 

On a lighter note I recall that the Cambodian Army had a range near the airport in PP where one could fire weapons of different types, all the way up to RPG-ing a cow (not that that would flick my switch. There is a niche market but not shipping busloads of people through.