Foreign "Mafia Barons" In Thailand's Tourism Sector?
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Thumbs up 👍 Benjamin Hart
Hmm, let me see if I can understand this, again. Chinese, Russian, and Indians, we welcome you with open arms. Here is your first 90 stamp on arrival..... Americans, Brits, Aussies, and Europeans, 30-day stamp and leave! 33K THB spent by those mentioned in first group? 150% believe that figure to be true!
Now for the month of May (4 weeks) - My best friend, his son, and I stayed in Pattaya. Thats 3 hotel rooms to start, and not the cheap ones! I personally spent $4,000 USD out of pocket, cash. Can't say what the other two spent but had to be close.
Of course we are only allowed to stay 30 days, maybe jump through hoops and PAY to extend another 30. Maybe I'm a little jaded Thailand doesn't want the ones who spend money.....
China's been doing it for years. Used to see the tour buses downtown Phuket (outside O'Malley's) back around 2005, popping into the shops around the back. It was known then that no money was coming into Thailand.
How does Thai Hotels get paid? Do they get paid off shore?
Let me help you with some information that comes from about 15 years experience adjacent to these tours and knowing lots of people who have worked with them. This is how it works:
Tours are sold extremely cheap to what are usually first time international Chinese tourists. This money only reaches Thailand in the form of paying for the expenses involved in carrying on these tour operations (hotels, meals, transport, etc). What is often the case is that the "tour mafia" also owns or has a stake in the transport companies, restaurants, or hotels and in that case most of the money remains offshore.
But this is where the fun begins.
Tour guides for these tours are usually not paid or paid very little. They work on commission and are some of the most Machiavellian people you have ever met.
Tourists are forced to spend lots of time in shopping establishments owned by the "tour mafia" with the tour guides pressuring them to buy things. What they are buying depends on the region. Sometimes it's (so weird) latex mattresses, toppers, and pillows (they say it comes from local rubber trees), sometimes it's pearls, sometimes it's fabrics. The tourists are taken to massive showrooms where they are pressured into buying these things. If they don't buy, the tour guides do all kinds of things to them. Shame them, lock them out of their rooms, "forget" to pick them up. This is the only way the guides make money so they are incentivized.
Here's the kicker, usually the items the tourists are buying are not even in the country (how would you put 100 mattresses in an airplane?). The items are back in China and they get them on their return. Second kicker? The Chinese are paying with their AliPay cards and that money never actually enters Thailand.
And that is the zero-dollar tour.
great coverage as always. Any thoughts on the drug dealing African gangs having such a huge presence on Sukhumvit these days?
These days? They were around 20 years ago, although the African prossies not so much.
@@johnsimpson6670 thanks. By these days I mean the past 18+ months. It's gotten a lot worse over the past year: always 4 to 8 hanging out at the BTS station entrances/ exits (aka choke points on the sidewalk), always trying to engage us over and over again. I've had 30+ friends visit this year, they typical stay in that area between soi 7 and soi 22 (Sofitel, Hilton, Westin, ext). Every single one of them commented on how it was the worst part of their trip trip and will consider not coming to BKK to party in the future.
Folks don't fly halfway around the world from the west to be confronted by the same shite they have to deal with in any major city in the US, they come here to escape it, yet it seems be allowed to flourish. So much for the TAT "cleaning up" sukhumvit to attract more affluent tourists and families.
What is the difference between a zero-dollar tour and a non-zero-dollar tour? If the tourists are eating food and drinking water, someone is paying for the items and service.
zero $$$$ turism we vere i com from EUROPE minimum 50years ore more we call it charter
all inclusive we have to yes pay before the trip start me did same first time to thailand
charter no big deal of that same china way
RUclips guy Zoom to Thailand doing illegal tours
Thai govt should charge these tour operators a surcharge per person...10k-20k maybe? The tour operators will obviously pass on the charge of course but at least this extra money comes to 🇹🇭.