Tourists blamed for pirate goods problems as ministry heeds PM's call

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Tourists blamed for pirate goods problems as ministry heeds PM's call

 

Picture: Thai News Agency

 

BANGKOK: -- Tourists have been singled out as a major cause for problems with pirated goods.

 

Now the Ministry of Tourism and Sports has called in tour operators to get tough and stop tourists from visiting shops selling fake goods.

 

The move comes after PM Prayut Chan-ocha has ordered authorities in the country to stop the trade. In turn the general himself has been under pressure from foreign manufacturers to do something.

 

Now much of the blame is being laid at the tourists' door. Thai News Agency reported that 90% of all pirated goods on sale are being offered in tourist areas such as Patpong in Bangkok, Pattaya and Phuket.

 

Items such as watches, bags and fake brand name clothing are everywhere and when tourists buy them and take them home the image of Thailand as a hub for such items only gets worse, said TNA.

 

So now a campaign has been launched entitled "Tourism and the War on Piracy".

 

The Tourism and Sports Ministry have met with tour groups' representatives to request that tourists are not taken to places where pirated goods are on sale.

 

And the tour group operators are further being asked to tell tourists not to buy fake goods and why they shouldn't.

 

Yesterday a large group of operators, embassy officials, guides, revenue department officials and tourist police met in Bangkok to launch the campaign.

 

Source: Thai News Agency

 

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[wirat69]

Fake is affordable, real label...... ripoff!!


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[ezflip]

Sure...turn a blind eye to all the Thais that invade Emporium Mall on petchaburi road, or the stalls across the street, or the little unnamed mall a few meters away, or...

 

Let's blame the tourist. So much easier.

[darksidedog]

Oh! This is too funny.

So the tourists are to blame for all the knock off goods? Thai people don't buy them, is that what he is trying to say?

I can really see your average taxi driver saying to his customer ,"Ooo! Don't go in there mister. Let me take you somewhere where you can pay ten times more!"

Especially given that all the "labels" are often made in Asia, so the knock off price is actually the fair one.

[DNPBC0]

Why not simply 'get tough' on the retailers selling these goods?

[trogers]

Ahhh...speaks volume on the grade and class of tourists infesting the shores...

[PatOngo]

The mentality of these people bewilders me.......people in these positions can't be this stupid........can they?

 

[AGareth2]

First they are going to shut down the sex industry

then the fake products industry

What next?

Many tourists are going to go elsewhere

[anotheruser]

Just now, darksidedog said:

Oh! This is too funny.

So the tourists are to blame for all the knock off goods? Thai people don't buy them, is that what he is trying to say?

I can really see your average taxi driver saying to his customer ,"Ooo! Don't go in there mister. Let me take you somewhere where you can pay ten times more!"

 

The taxis already do this but they do it in places that sell pirated goods. 

[vadid]

 I wonder who must be selling and making all the fake goods? No Thai would ever do such things, so it must be tourists too.

[ikke]

2 minutes ago, AGareth2 said:

First they are going to shut down the sex industry

then the fake products industry

What next?

Many tourists are going to go elsewhere

Next, the airports.....

 

[tukkytuktuk]

Who come's to Thailand as part of a tour group? And why everyweek has the Tourism minister a new idea that she has to share with the nation?
A friend back in England kept telling us his great ideas and plans every week down the pub. We later found out he was smoking waki baki.
Is this the case here as well. Is the tourism minister on the 'green tea'?

[mick220675]

If the army could only kill all the tourists/expats and any one who voted red, this country would be paradise, even the North Korans would be envious.

[petedk]

20 minutes ago, AGareth2 said:

First they are going to shut down the sex industry

then the fake products industry

What next?

Many tourists are going to go elsewhere

Stop them from feeding the fish.

[rkidlad]

There will always be a demand. If you stop the supply, the demand can't happen. The supply is always smaller and easier to stop. 

 

A little bit of advice to a country who relies so heavily on tourism and trade; try not to blame your customers. It's not good for business. 

[jerojero]

Well that puts the PM up one notch on the stupidity list. How utterly ridiculous, blaming tourist as if they started the fake goods trade in Thailand. Pathetic.

[AGareth2]

could of course ban tourism

[fruitman]

30 minutes ago, DNPBC0 said:

Why not simply 'get tough' on the retailers selling these goods?

Mate you know where the airport is right? 

 

That's soooo unThai....

[kannot]

why not  just charge 10 times as  much to tourists as  than the Thais  pay.......im SURE  theyll approve that no problem

[anotheruser]

2 minutes ago, AGareth2 said:

could of course ban tourism

No don't go over board ban it with in 300 meters of a school.

[kannot]

u mean all those young Thai girls I see with Louis Vuitton bags everywhere only have them because their  Farang Tourist  husbands bought them for them

[Chicog]

36 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

The mentality of these people bewilders me.......people in these positions can't be this stupid........can they?

 

It seems to be a prerequisite for employment in senior positions.

[anotheruser]

Just now, kannot said:

u mean all those young Thai girls I see with Louis Vuitton bags everywhere only have them because their  Farang Tourist  husbands bought them for them

They are all genuine items purchased at Paragon.

[kannot]

Just now, anotheruser said:

They are all genuine items purchased at Paragon.

Ah my mistake, seems everyone  on the BTS has them, guess theyve all been shopping there then and their chauffeurs must have been   ill that day hence the need to get on the BTS or Baht Bus

[daveAustin]

Thailand, you reap what you sow yet you continue to blame others. When oh when will you grow up?!

[lemonjelly]

I can see RTP hiding around corners in the future, waiting to pounce on tourists after buying 99 baht Raybans..... 

[brewsterbudgen]

Perhaps people need to actually read the article rather than just the, badly written, headline. They're blaming the tour guides that take the tourists to these places, not the tourists.

[anotheruser]

1 minute ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Perhaps people need to actually read the article rather than just the, badly written, headline. They're blaming the tour guides that take the tourists to these places, not the tourists.

 

That would spoil all the fun. 

[catinthehat]

43 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

The mentality of these people bewilders me.......people in these positions can't be this stupid........can they?

 

Just look at all of the fools in the photo. Whatever the Fuhrer says it must be correct. Just like the Thai language replacing English as the global language. And "a Thai person could never do this............", The problem is with the foreigner women wearing bikini's here, etc, etc.

[ezrider62]

48 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

Oh! This is too funny.

So the tourists are to blame for all the knock off goods? Thai people don't buy them, is that what he is trying to say?

I can really see your average taxi driver saying to his customer ,"Ooo! Don't go in there mister. Let me take you somewhere where you can pay ten times more!"

Especially given that all the "labels" are often made in Asia, so the knock off price is actually the fair one.

Good read, I like it!