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Home » News from Thailand » Tourism in Thailand must bring in more money
Tourism in Thailand must bring in more money
It is still not very successful with the ailing economy in Thailand. The government is therefore going to focus on further growth of tourism. Next year, that should yield 10 percent more revenue (3 trillion baht).
This year, income has already increased by 8 percent, compared to an average of 3 to 5 percent in previous years. Thailand mainly focuses on quality tourism aimed at both Thai and foreign tourists.
In addition to more quality tourists, Prime Minister Prayut also wants visitors to stay longer, said government spokesman Sansern. International studies would show that Thailand and especially Bangkok is a popular destination for a long stay.
The new 'Amazing Thailand Tourism Year 1' campaign will start on November 2018. It will last until January 1, 2019. Events are already planned, including a naval review in Pattaya and the Air Race 1 Thailand at U-tapao airport.
To achieve the 10 percent growth, a number of tourism sectors are being promoted, including: sports, Thai cuisine, honeymoons, medical tourism and community-based tourism.
Source: Bangkok Post
It would already help enormously if simply beach beds and umbrellas were allowed on the beaches again,
The last time I was in Phuket, Patong Beach was almost completely empty, which cost a lot of tourists
From March we will have beach beds again in almost all of Phuket.
I would be satisfied if I could easily get a 3 month visa. What a hassle now at the embassy in Belgium. Then it is a 2 month visa.
If Thailand's government wants 'us' to stay longer, perhaps they should look into easing visa regulations first. Instead of 6 months, we are going to Thailand for 3 months this winter. After an extremely disappointing experience at the Thai embassy in The Hague, without a visa...then an extra visa trip
What to think if the visa requirement was extended? Then it will also be easier to stay longer instead of being allowed to tap off like a bum with your cap in your hand, And having to make your move known every time through such an m30 form
just an idea?
more tourism but every year it changes for the visa TM30 I always stay 6 months in Thailand and 6 months in Belgium again and again to the emigration office 3 months notification, exit reentry visa env
now also no Belgian health insurance fund anymore, according to I hear people leave for Vietnam and Cambodia easier and better buy
Quality tourists who stay longer refer to tourists who spend a minimum of 5000 Baht daily and are better off doing that for 14 days than 5 days.
Long-stayers who pick their own pineapples are not getting anywhere.
Or sexpats who consider Pattaya to be the ultimate for a few weeks.
That is why this place is rapidly being phased out of its 'specialty'.
You're right about that. I would be very surprised if people in that sector were also aiming for a growth of 10% on an annual basis with the use of extra promotional activities.
If you define quality as the amount of money brought into the country, the sex tourists in Pattaya are definitely quality tourists.
They also don't complain about polluted seawater.
Recent economic research indicates that between 65 and 70% of tourism revenues leak away to destinations outside Thailand in the short or longer term. About 30% really remains in the Thai economy. I'll give some examples to explain it because it's not that simple.
1. Foreign tourists who buy a package holiday in their own country from a travel agency and then fly to Thailand with KLM or another airline than Thai Airways are not very interesting for the Thai economy. And that becomes even less if they stay in hotels of foreign chains, which may import a large number of products.
2. a tourist buying souvenirs on Catuchak which are all made in China. The Chinese producer must also be paid.
3. A tourist staying in a Thai hotel chain. Not all of that goes to the Thai economy, although you may think so. The owner buys a Benz from the profit (money goes to Germany less the dealer's share) or he buys an apartment in London. Wealthy Thais are the largest group of apartment buyers in London. The Cambodian employees send part of their salary home. Nice for Cambodia, not for Thailand.
The Thai government could do much more for the Thai economy by trying to minimize these leakage effects. That is much more beneficial than more spending, 70% of which does not benefit the country.
the disadvantages of corruption in the farang and customer friendliness at school as teaching could pay off in the future.
they don't see us as tourists but as walking cash cabinets that they try to plunder in every way.
a pity in the tourist area but luckily I have little trouble with this in the Isaan
Now that's what I thought too. You catch more with honey and syrup than with vinegar and scam. A bad experience destroys much more and costs 100 good experiences to restore it. Thailand shows in many cases that they are not happy at all with all that tourism (I can also imagine something). But if you want to grow the sector, they will really have to adopt a different attitude. A good first step (in my opinion) would be to abolish the double price system and ban the word “farang”.
I see the Thai economy growing like weed. When I'm gone for 2 months and I come back I hardly recognize anything anymore. The showroom as large as palaces with the most expensive cars springing up like mushrooms. Construction companies can hardly keep up with demand. And then you have to take into account that everything is done to make it as difficult as possible for the tourist…..to get a simple tourist visa you have to be almost on your bare knees, not to mention how to get them times with old pensioners who only ask permission to spend their money there.
I don't think tourists mean Longstayers. The average tourist only stays for an average of 3 weeks and the 30-day residence stamp is enough for them. As for undressing Tourists; where don't they??
Have you ever had a beer on the Champs d'ellisee in Paris?
And Venice? I think every tourist country wants the same thing
In the big cities in the west you are stripped financially primarily by the owners of the buildings in which the beer is offered. The cafe owner can only ask high prices at a rent of 20 to 50,000 euros per month for a shop on the champs elysee, Venice, or the Kalverstraat in Amsterdam.
That money mainly flows to big business, the richest 1 percent, and not to the country itself.
I therefore invariably refuse to participate in that, whether in Bangkok or Paris.
tourists don't need visas…they get them “on arrival” these are the tourists they want, not the backpackers who travel here for 3 months and spend 10-20US$/day…but wealthy Chinese who spend 10000baht/day or more.
Lol, That's why so many zero dollar Chinese come to Thailand. The large amount counts and not the lucky few who spend some money. Who spends 500 (10.000 baht) euros a day on vacation? How many do you think there are?
Chinese tourists spend the most in Thailand per day. Europeans the least.
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https://photos.app.goo.gl/4Lh4HIpzqDUvSmtL2
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Chinese people do need a visa, which they have to BUY on arrival.
We Dutch people can use the Visa Exemption Rule for FREE.
Those are nice graphs, but if I start from the average that is indicated, I do a small calculation for a NL family with 2 children
4 people a $125/day = $500/day
21 days x $500 = $10.500 = $8.800.
4 tickets a (cheap) Euro 600 = Euro 2400.
Total cost for the holiday = Euro 11.200.
I personally don't believe that much.
In the time that we still went on holiday to TH, we did not lose that much money for the holiday. And if we just leave for a few days, we won't lose that either.
Of course it could also be us.
A family with two children is of course much cheaper per person than a single holidaymaker. The hotel room is already twice as expensive for the single person. If your camera memory card is full, buy a new one. I also buy one, but that is four times as much per person. If you take a taxi, the price per person is also only a quarter of mine. Your children probably won't smoke, drink beer, or go out on the road. Most Dutch people I meet are not here with the whole family either. Even if you bring some souvenirs or gifts for friends, the costs are usually borne by four people. So your calculation is correct, but your traveling group does not represent the average.
Must be my French, but when I go to Thailand I really don't lose 125 euros per person per day. That's where I come from them, they won't live long. Nice statistic, but unbelievable to me.
Individual cases can, of course, deviate significantly from the average. I can't make it - even without a flight and with a low budget accommodation of 1000 Baht per night - on US$ 125 (€ 104) per day.
People who come here to do business are also seen as tourists in the statistics.
Stimulating tourism is in stark contradiction with the increasingly strict policy in Thailand with regard to issuing visas. For example, it is now impossible to stay in Thailand for 6 months (with a short border excursion after 3 months) if you are not married to a Thai. At the same time, as a pre-pensioner you are not eligible for a tourist visa because you cannot provide pay slips from an employer.
Quality tourists are not only people who spend a lot in a short period of time, they are also older people who want to stay here for part of the year, and thus contribute steadily to the Thai economy.
This makes the current visa policy indeed short-sighted and counter-productive.
Anyone can get a tourist visa, no pay slips are required. Staying in Thailand for 6 months: get a tourist visa in the Netherlands/Belgium 1x, extend it within Thailand for 90 days, go abroad 1x to get a new tourist visa and extend it again for 90 days. Are you almost at the 6 months, legal and without problems.
It would be very smart to finally devalue the Thai Baht just like Japan and China have done.
The Thai Baht is kept artificially high and it would be a lot cheaper for tourists.
But the Thai elite in Bangkok don't want to know about this because then they would suffer too many losses.
So it is waiting for this large group until they have secured their money.
In any case, it would give the tourist the opportunity to spend more money and/or to stay longer.