Thread: Thai tourism hit by instability

I would have thought the poor exchange rate does not help.

Originally Posted by Udonite

I would have thought the poor exchange rate does not help.

People who worry about that, dont hire long tail boats, they use the river taxi to Khao San.

Thats because they are all up in Isaan staying out in the villages, More and more expats every bloody year, I wish they would piss off

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why did my post go like that?

I tried to make a half line using the "-" key. Made something like 12-15 strokes at it?

Originally Posted by Rigger

Thats because they are all up in Isaan staying out in the villages, More and more expats every bloody year, I wish they would piss off

Hear! Hear!

Originally Posted by zubber

"Normally I have so many tourists. They are so enormous."

Much better.

Originally Posted by zubber

Al Jazeera English - 2009 - Thai tourism hit by instability

In what is supposed to be Thailand's peak tourist season, the long tail boats along the Chao Phraya river, in the heart of Bangkok, are mostly empty these days.

Tour operators have never seen it so quiet in October, Al Jazeera's Aela Callan reports.

Athiraj, a tour operator in Bangkok, said: "The number of tourists has decreased at least 50 per cent. Normally this time of year is the start of the high season and a lot of tourists are coming. But now it feels like we are still in the low season."

Around the Grand Palace, one of the Thai capital's main tourist attractions, the city's famous tuk-tuks sit idle, as do many street vendors who are barely scraping together a living selling souvenirs.

"This year is the worst. It's actually the worst of the worst," Jintana, a tour-boat operator, said.

"Normally I have so many tourists. The number is so enormous I do not have time to eat."

The downturn is expected to cost Thailand $4bn.

This is only the beginning, wait till December, there want be much more either, the tourist's have finaly woken up that there are more friendlier countries just around the corner.

Tourist's are sick and tired of being ripped off werever they go, starting at the Airport, then the taxis and the hotels not to mention the street gangs. Laos,Cambodia, Vietnam and as of late Cuba are rubbing theyr hands, here we go.

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A lot of old bolliks really, Tourists just cant seem to stay away from Thailand whatever happens in the friggin place.

Might be a tad slow at the moment but one must remember that this is the case in most countries because of the down turn in the economy.

Things are improving and before you know it there will be Muppets running around everywhere shagging trollops and drinking shite loads of Singa.

Myself likes it at the moment.

^ Malaysia and Bali numbers are up.

When the inevitable happens it will be the final nail in the coffin for Thai tourism.

^as long as the doors remain open people will come, in decreasing numbers yeah, but the mongers and desperate will always want to cum

inbound UK tourism is up

This kind of thread never fails to bring out the schadenfreude does it. Quite telling really.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

This kind of thread never fails to bring out the schadenfreude does it. Quite telling really.

Empathetic extensions needn't be fine tuned regarding discussions herein. Observe the instinctive nature of a population that dwells and exist for the pleasure of promoting epicaricacy.