Chinese appeal for tourists’ safety in Phuket met with promises

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Chinese appeal for tourists’ safety in Phuket met with promises

The Phuket News

 

Rescue workers attend to a Chinese tourist injured in a boat trip off Phuket. Photo: The Phuket News / file

 

PHUKET: -- A high-powered appeal by the Chinese government asking the Thai authorities to take more action to prevent deaths and injuries to Chinese tourists in Phuket and the surrounding region has been met with a slew justifications and promises.

 

The Consulate-General of the People’s Republic of China, Songkhla held a meeting in Phuket last Thursday (Mar 9) in a wide-ranging appeal to police and all forms of tourism authorities in Phuket, as well as representatives from tour agencies.

 

The key official at the meeting was the Director of the China National Tourism Administration Bangkok office, Zhang Xinhong, who was joined by Chinese Consul General in Songkhla Zhou Haicheng, the lead Chinese government representative for all Southern Thailand.

Representing the Royal Thai Police were no less than three police generals: Region 8 Police Commander Maj Gen Chayohdom Jindawirote, who is the lead ranking police officer for upper Southern Thailand; Phuket Provincial Police Chief Maj Gen Teeraphol Thipjaroen; and Krabi Provincial Police Chief Maj Gen Worawit Phanprung.

 

Also present were officers from Tourist Police Region 5, the Tourism and Sports Ministry Phuket office, the Phuket Land Transportation Department (PLTO) and other government departments totalling 15 agencies in all, along with tour agency representatives.

 

Consul General Zhou thanked police in Phuket and Krabi for their efforts so far and expressed his appreciation that the two provincial governments had made great efforts to promote Thailand-China cooperation, and safeguard the safety of Chinese tourists.

 

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/chinese-appeal-for-tourists-safety-in-phuket-met-with-promises-61381.php

 

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[clockman]

Come at your peril.!

[fruitman]

Blah blah blah,

 

What did they actually do to make Thailand more safe for tourists?

 

Are the touristboats checked regularly for safety?? Is the staff checked for having no criminal records and are all the insurances checked?

Is the Police doing their job? Can they speak english? Do they pick up the phone? Are there lifeguards at the beaches? No more glass on the beach? No more drivers without licenses/insurances/lights or driving around drunk/against traffic?

 

Why do the Thai wait untill the touristcountries ask them to improve safety?? The West won't even waste their time by asking for it, they know it doesn't help at all.

 

This weekend i was in Chinatown on the newly built esplanade, there were open electric outlets which can easy electrocute tourists during the rain....also open naked wires at the newly built terraces.....will they ever learn something??

[stevenl]

Blah blah blah,
 
What did they actually do to make Thailand more safe for tourists?
 
Are the touristboats checked regularly for safety?? Is the staff checked for having no criminal records and are all the insurances checked?
Is the Police doing their job? Can they speak english? Do they pick up the phone? Are there lifeguards at the beaches? No more glass on the beach? No more drivers without licenses/insurances/lights or driving around drunk/against traffic?
 
Why do the Thai wait untill the touristcountries ask them to improve safety?? The West won't even waste their time by asking for it, they know it doesn't help at all.
 
This weekend i was in Chinatown on the newly built esplanade, there were open electric outlets which can easy electrocute tourists during the rain....also open naked wires at the newly built terraces.....will they ever learn something??

Can't answer all your questions, but boat and insurance check, yes, done regularly.

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[fruitman]

1 minute ago, stevenl said:

Can't answer all your questions, but boat and insurance check, yes, done regularly.

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That's great but in Thailand it's possible to drive an uninsured passengerboat while having insurancepapers...Remember that passengerboat on the Chaopraya which sunk some months ago? It had paid for insurance but the employee of the insurancecompany put the fee in his own pocket so after all the boat was not insured and the families of the victims didn't get money.

[stevenl]

That's great but in Thailand it's possible to drive an uninsured passengerboat while having insurancepapers...Remember that passengerboat on the Chaopraya which sunk some months ago? It had paid for insurance but the employee of the insurancecompany put the fee in his own pocket so after all the boat was not insured and the families of the victims didn't get money.

Great. You get an answer, correct but not to your liking, and then try to put that down.

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[chilli42]

Bobble head toys all of them.

[keep it real]

believe nothing of what comes out a thai's mouth, and only half of what they do.