Thread: The gross happiness index of foreigners residing in Thailand ?????

Poll: Majority of foreign tourists still prefer to revisit Thailand

BANGKOK, Sept 6 (TNA) -- Despite ongoing political turbulence in Thailand, as many as 97 per cent of foreign investors and tourists visiting the kingdom said they would revisit this country again if the opportunity opens, according to a poll conducted earlier this week.

Noppadol Kannikar, director of Assumption University's ABAC Poll, said the survey, conducted Sept 2-5 among 532 foreign investors and tourists, found that 98.9 per cent of the respondents said they would ask their relatives and friends to visit Thailand.

A total of 88.7 per cent of respondents expressed positive comments even after learning of the recent clash between pro- and anti-government demonstrators and the State of Emergency imposed in Bangkok, said Mr. Noppadol.

However, 23.8 per cent of total respondents admitted their journeys were inconvenienced due to the suspension of domestic airlines and railway services as a result of work stoppage by employees. Some 11.6 per cent were forced to change their travel plans.

The gross happiness index of foreigners residing in Thailand, however, improved marginally to 8.06 in the latest survey from the 8.02 registered earlier. (TNA)

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Noppadol Kannikar, director of Assumption University's ABAC Poll, said the survey, conducted Sept 2-5 among 532 foreign investors and tourists, found that 98.9 per cent of the respondents said they would ask their relatives and friends to visit Thailand.

Investors and tourists?

They do these surveys of tourists at places like Chatuchak market at the weekends.

What qualifies these people as investors? The fact they have invested in useless junk sold at the market?

One day at a time and with regard to staying, working and living here!

In fact it still feels like I am on holidays (and after more than 20 years here) and you just have to take the good and bad days and as they come and in your stride.

Of course people will still want to come here!

Why? Because here is still a lot better shithole than the shithole that they come from!

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Of course people will still want to come here!

If there is bloodshed, and continuing political turmoil, less and less people will come.

Not to mention the global recession will be a major factor.

The survey only serves to postpone the eventual realisation that Tourism in Thailand is in big, big trouble.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Why? Because here is still a lot better shithole than the shithole that they come from!

Maybe if they are Burmese or Lao.

Yes, good and relevent points tuddy but at the end of the day it is still far cheaper to live here and relatively still a lot safer than the social environment that some farangs live in at the moment.

Regarding the ongoing gloom and doom, and with regard to the global economy, some will feel a change is as good as a holiday and decide to make Thailand their new cheaper to live in home IMO.

Political uncertainty is part of the parcel...LoS will always have the tourists flock for it's weather, cost of living, laid back attitude, and neverending output of cheap and obliging knobwarmers.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

but at the end of the day it is still far cheaper to live here and relatively still a lot safer than the social environment that some farangs live in at the moment.

Cheaper for certain things and far more expensive for others.

Much of a muchness.

It's certainly not safer in Thailand although it certainly feels so.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

some will feel a change is as good as a holiday and decide to make Thailand their new cheaper to live in home IMO.

Thailand won't allow mass arrivals of long term Westerners.

Visa rules, the ones in the pipeline notwithstanding, will be tightened further to ensure that never happens.