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Home » News from Thailand » Poll: 50 percent of Thai want to reopen country to foreign tourists
Poll: 50 percent of Thai want to reopen country to foreign tourists
Posted in News from Thailand
Tags: Foreigners, Survey, Thailand entry conditions, Poll, Tourists
Today again the results of a survey and as many readers noted yesterday, it just depends on who you ask the question. About 50 percent of respondents in a poll by the Tourism Council of Thailand (TCT) agree with the plan to reopen the country to specific groups of tourists.
1.362 Thai people were interviewed, including in Phuket, Chiang Mai, Koh Samui, Krabi and Pattaya. About 36 percent disagree with the plan, 83 percent are against reopening to all tourists, 58 percent are against allowing long-stay tourists.
In Phuket, 51 percent of those polled are in favor of receiving snowbirds and 39 percent against. On Koh Samui, 38 percent are in favour, 31 percent don't care or are against.
Opinions also differ about the so-called travel bubble (allowing tourists from countries with a low risk). At least 52 percent of the respondents are against, but the respondents in Phuket and Koh Samui are in favor.
Source: Bangkok Post
Thailand has a population of just under 70 million. I wonder if an opinion poll of say 1800 people is enough to say something about the opinion of 70 million people.
Would love to hear from people who have learned about this
Whether a sample size of 1800 is applied to a population of 7 million or 70 million makes little difference to accuracy. What is important is how those 1800 were selected. How representative are they of the entire population?
Furthermore, in terms of the opinion of the population, there can be large regional differences, large differences between people who are closely or hardly involved, etc. So how much does the opinion of an entire population actually say?
Well, it's just like with electricity: the vast majority is against coal-fired power stations, windmills, nuclear energy, electricity-generating dams and combustion plants, but everyone wants to use electricity continuously and more and more. The same is true with tourism from which many benefit economically and depend on it.
This survey was apparently done in the tourist hotspots where almost everyone depends on tourism. And yet so many are still against reopening the borders. This seems to indicate that national support for closed borders is very high.
So it will be a long time before we can go to Thailand without much fuss.
In Phuket they do stand in long lines every day for free food distribution and the lines are getting longer.
And it is mainly the farangs (Rotary) and Western restaurants that set up and sponsor this. Now I also hear that it will come to an end for financial reasons.
I don't think this result is realistic.
1362 of the 70 million, it is also unclear who these 1362 are.
Is that a representative image?
And what obviously plays a role is the question?
All in all, it doesn't say much.
And if you survey people in the center and especially in Loi Kroh road eo in Chiangmai you can be sure that the vast majority of those surveyed want to open the borders to foreign tourists as soon as possible, contrary to the opinion of Thais in 'muu bans' in the vicinity of the city, which are less or not dependent on tourism.
For a large part of Thais, the question is more appropriate: 'Do you want to remain without income'?
Are we in the Netherlands also going to conduct 'representative' (?) surveys about the desirability of meeting wage demands from workers in certain sectors, giving the unemployed a higher contribution or raising the living wage?
No, of course not, then we will approach those specific groups and sit down with our organizations.
There are 2 polls mentioned on this blog and despite everything, there is no majority that is waiting for more bullshit than a few months ago. Life here is gradually moving in the right direction and the vast majority of the population can pay the necessary bills, so who are the people who say that the residents should not express that opinion?
Is there still such a thing as sovereignty or are we going back to the time when the farang can impose their will?
It is cringeworthy that in NL hospital care such as cancer treatments must be scaled down, while Sombat from the rice fields could still say that soft healers make stinking wounds.
Many seem to still have to get used to the fact that world power is shifting and what the consequences are.
This survey has been carried out in typical tourist places where many people depend on the income from tourism. Do the same survey here, nationally or in a part of Thailand where there is no tourism, then you will get a completely different result. It's quite possible that here, 90% will say don't open. Also don't forget that the vast majority of the Thai population is not dependent on tourism. Of course we should not lose sight of the fact that tourism is important to Thailand. Doing good for everyone is not easy and practically impossible.
This Corona pandemic proves once again that nothing is certain not for us and certainly not for Thailand.
In terms of managing COVID19 in Thailand, the government is doing well, few infections (they say) but what is the downside? The tourist high season is just around the corner, but in 2020 and 2021 there will be no high season I'm afraid. Thailand is largely dependent on tourism and will be presented with the bill due to their strict and unrealistic measures. The survey as it was conducted shows that 50% of the “ordinary man/woman” is against the fact that tourists are already entering the country. Fine, that's how you keep those ′′ dirty foreigners ′′ out and so is COVID19 is the idea. Of course, travel movements increase the risk of spreading, but what is the prospect? The question is not when tourists are allowed to enter Thailand again, but when tourists WANT to come again with these unrealistic (discriminatory) rules. the longer the door is locked, the further Thailand will fall out of favor of the tourist, resulting in an economy that largely depends on precisely that tourist, eventually dies and brings Thailand back to the level of the 60/70 years. If the population indicates through that poll that they prefer not to see tourists, they must also accept THAT. Who tells me that many people who had Thailand as a holiday destination do not look elsewhere (as soon as possible) Cambodia, Vietnam The Philippines are just around the corner and have always been less strict when it comes to bringing in foreign exchange (read tourists) there Thailand can take an example. As for me personally, I don't know if I will ever go to Thailand again, I can't judge that yet (although I've been coming there for years, actually) and I think many people feel that way. Many (including me) have looked at Thailand through a tube as if there was no other way, but the World is much bigger than Thailand. In the end I hope that everything will turn out well for everyone, but recovery will take years, especially for Thailand.