Thai addicted to their smartphone
Travelers from Thailand are the least willing to give up their mobile devices when they go on vacation, a new global survey from Hotels.com finds
The thought of going on holiday without their beloved gadget gives 85% of Thais the chills.
The research, which maps the digital habits of travelers from 28 countries, shows which travelers have difficulty letting go of the daily balance between work and private life at the holiday address. Korea is second only to Thailand, with 78% of those surveyed having a problem living without gadgets. Japan completes the top three with 69%.
Together with Denmark and Australia, the Netherlands is in joint twentieth place in the list. 29% of the surveyed Dutch travelers should not think about missing the phone during a holiday.
When they return home, more than one in three Dutch people (36%) regret the time they spent on mobile devices. No wonder, because although almost all respondents (93%) go on holiday to forget their work, half (50%) check their business e-mail at their holiday address. However, work is not the only reason behind the inability to ban mobile devices. The Dutch also like to use their gadgets during their holidays to consult route maps and information about the weather, restaurants and bars and other matters at the destination.
Travelers least willing to part with their mobile devices on vacation
- Thailand (85%)
- Korea (78%)
- Japan (69%)
- China (67%)
- Singapore (60%)
- Taiwan (53%)
- Norway (53%)
- Brazil (52%)
- Ireland (51%)
- Finland (50%)
The research also provides insight into the things that the Dutch value most during a holiday. The list is led by the passport, which indicates that respondents are looking abroad, followed by travel insurance, sunglasses and swimsuits. The smartphone can be found in fifth place. Travel guides are considered less important, in tenth place. It is quite possible that the function of travel guides has been partly replaced by smartphones.
Top ten most important holiday essentials for the Dutch
- Passport
- Travel Insurance
- Sunglasses
- Swimwear
- Smartphone
- Sunscreen
- Deodorant
- Razor
- Sportswear
- Guide
When it comes to embellishing holiday stories, the Chinese top the list. More than two-thirds (67%) of Chinese travelers surveyed occasionally exaggerate to family or friends upon returning home. Many Germans (64%) and Koreans (48%) also admit to wanting to impress by embellishing holiday adventures. The Netherlands can be found in ninth place, more than a third (36%) of the surveyed travelers admit that they sometimes make up their holiday stories.
Travelers who exaggerate their holiday stories
- China (67%)
- Germany (64%)
- Korea (48%)
- Spain (47%)
- Thailand (46%)
- Taiwan (44%)
- Indian (40%)
- Russia (37%)
- THE NETHERLANDS (36%)
- Japan (36%)
*Survey conducted with 2.495 respondents in 28 countries in July 2014.
the Thai is smartphone zombie,
just take public transport in BKK,
if you see in 1 coupe full of Thai from the BTS 2 Thai not fumbling
are with their 'smart' mobile phone, the two are sleeping.
I always wonder if it will then be possible to leave the BTS at the right station,
sunk so low with their attention purely for the smartphone.
even in Thai karaoke people communicate through that thing, while next to
each other sitting on the couch.
could it have to do with the low-threshold addiction standard here?
A prejudice. Look in the Netherlands on buses and trains and you will see a comparable situation.
I regularly sit on the boat from sathorn taksin to pak kret and see more people sleeping than using the phone.
I'm a heavy user myself. Read the newspapers, answer the emails and send messages. Used to open the laptop every evening. Now when I'm home gang members still because everything is done.
And I feel good about it.
Even with the Thai man + woman or boy + girl.
when they go out to dinner together in a restaurant…
Then they sit across from each other at a table.
Both have their cell phones in one hand,
and in the other hand a fork or spoon.
both don't know at that moment that they are just the two of them!
In a Thai discotheque it is even worse or more pathetic.
there, almost every Thai has his mobile in his hand.
Finally the younger students…
they are usually after school in the nearby KFC-Chicken
to eat.
Usually with at least 10 around at one table…
the many chicken parts on the table, and even a few school bags
on the same table… in one hand their cell phone,
and with the other hand they grab the chicken from the table and then eat
like wild monkeys.
Occasionally they talk (yell) to each other across the table,
with the necessary pieces of chicken coming out of their mouths and across
be spit off the table!
After half an hour, this growing youth leaves with a lot of noise
the KFC, with 1/3 chicken parts left on the table.
And to think that Dad goes to work every day in plastic flip flops.
I can confirm this, the Thais only live for this device. You see them walking around with it everywhere.
There is no longer any talk of any social contact.
What's even worse, if you look at how they live, you'll notice that they don't own anything indoors.
As we Westerners place our value elsewhere, they do this in other things such as social media.
Which is more important to the Thai than a nice and cozy interior
How long did you have to study to figure this out? Or how much do you have to pay someone to come up with these conclusions? How many people have been questioned, those involved or people who have seen it? That is nowhere.
You pay for the result you want to see. It's humbug, farm trickery.
All over the world people are messing around with those things all day and all over the world there are people who can't afford such a thing and there are even, oh dear what a great loss, who don't want such a thing!
I don't have such a thing. I have email, a blog, a telephone number and a postal address and am extremely happy without one of those i-things that reminds me every second of my friendship with Oy and Ooy, that I still have to call Herman (I have an agenda for that). my mobile phone and on my desk), and that I don't want to see Harrie on the phone.
I live my own life. And at 17 p.m. the mobi goes off too. They just send an email!
Ha erik nice that there are more people who don't have such a thing. I only use email myself, well then also facebook and just a landline phone. I still don't understand what you need a mobile phone for as an average person. I mean as a seller can I still understand if you are your own boss? Often I hear people say something along the lines of "but what if something happens".
I don't understand that, how can you always think that something can happen where does that scared hare behavior come from? And why am I or someone else so important that you have to be constantly connected? And why is someone else constantly checking his mobile while I just politely ask something or start a conversation…………….I also understand that people shouldn't adapt to me because that would be downright selfish but I just think it's weird something called social bullshit.
Nobody needs these smart and other phones, it was just a huge gap in the market.
And now we're all stuck with them.
Also with the so-called social media facebook and co, everything happens there and no longer at the table.
Just anti-social that social media.
EINSTEIN WAS RIGHT!
We currently have a generation with those eyes
has not looked,
who has ears but does not listen…
Albert Einstein once said:
“I dread the day when technology dominates our humanity. The world will only be one
generation of idiots.”
IT'S SO TIME!!!
Another “old man comments”… How old are you? Retired? I understand!
Are they addicted to those things in Thailand? Yes, Annoying? Yes!
Now the other side of the coin… There are also people who do an awful lot of business
arrange with a smartphone and also obtain sufficient information via their smartphone. So not everything
brush up gentlemen, thank you! Coincidentally, I'm an early 40s who spend a lot of money on that thing
and can arrange things more easily, is it allowed? The word idiots even comes up…
Tells me enough why he has an aversion to smartphones…..
Moderator: please don't chat.
Almost all over the world people are fans of this piece of technology. In Thailand I mainly see women doing those things. Men in Thailand seem to be less interested. But maybe I'm not looking very well. I am an older youth and I have no problem using the off button. Especially on vacation!!! Sometimes I think, too bad they invented WiFi.
This week I was at a birthday party of my girlfriend's aunt. There were, together with me, 4 Farangs. And do you know who stared at the smart phone the longest? Yes right, we the Farangs.
But then you need to know the reason. A young man was in Thailand for the first time and he wanted to make some nice trips with his girlfriend. Using his phone, I was able to explain to him the way to certain places (via Google Maps) and also show me a few points of interest).
I myself am now building up a database for tropical fish. I can find books, but to look something up quickly, a decent database is easy. Especially since you can then add information yourself. When I am somewhere where tropical fish are sold, I can see on the basis of my database whether I can place these fish in my pond. The fact is that here in Thailand I get very little information about these animals.
And you don't carry your books with you either. I can put an eBook on my smartphone and consult my database.
There are plenty more examples I could cite of what I can do with my device.
It's normal that there are still enough people who actually waste their time with those kinds of devices, that's just how people are. How many people spend hours in front of the TV every day, while there is nothing decent on it. Then they zap for a few hours and in fact have not seen anything yet.
Is that better then? Or they get worked up in front of a TV at a game where eleven grown men run after a ball and kick it away when they have it. And what they also get a lot of money for… what about it again… just search on Google… ah yes, found: football….