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Hermanolobo
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The Daily Mail had an article on 7th January about how the 'Sanook' has gone out of Thailand. Tourists killed, quite a few Americans dying in Pattaya from one thing or another. The famous Thai smile disappearing. The author who had lived in Thailand put the problem down to 'Too many tourists, hotels,greed etc etc'. The tourist numbers have doubled in a very short time ?
I can only say I was enjoying myself better in 2001 !
Here are another couple of stories from the media, does the writer have a point ? :-
Spanish police are investigating the murder of a British couple in Tenerife.
It is understood the couple, in their 50s, had lived there for more than 15 years and ran a timeshare business.
Their bodies were found near their home at San Miguel, close to Playa de las Americas, in the south of the island.
A police spokesman told the Daily Telegraph: "The couple had severe head injuries and everything points to them being the victims of a brutal attack with a heavy object.
"There are no signs of anything being stolen from either of the victims."
A letter from Stickman's Weekly:-
Will problems in Thailand lead to tourists venturing elsewhere?
Just a note to say that the murder of a young British tourist on Ko Samui has received very wide coverage here in London - front page of most papers. Regarding your comment in last column that the sheer aggregate of bad news regarding Thailand may be a dampener on the tourist industry, such publicity can only dissuade the more timid potential tourist. Another factor worth bearing in mind when it comes to the lack of old-style high seasons: one of the biggest impediments Thailand faces is the boom in budget airlines in Europe over recent years. Everyone here has a story about getting an outrageously cheap fare to somewhere in Europe with Easy Jet, Ryanair etc. Those tourists who are just looking to get some sun during the European winter are now much more likely to shell out just a few quid to go to the Costa del Sol, Turkey, Greek Islands etc, rather than shell out several hundred pounds to go to Thailand. And 'single male travelers', can now get what they're after in eastern Europe at a fraction of the cost of a visit to LOS - witness the strange boom in flights to Riga! Those Europeans who are absolutely rusted onto Thailand will continue to visit regardless of cost, but Thailand's status as THE place to go that it held during the 1990s continues to ebb away. My prediction is that Thailand will increasingly become a holiday destination for Asians, principally the newly-moneyed Chinese, more so than farang. Expect to see the phenomenon of Rainbow-style targeting of Asian punters by bars to continue apace. Have you considered a Mandarin version of your site?!
http://www.stickmanbangkok.com/Weekly2006/weekly244.htm
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:53 am on Jan. 14, 2006
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DaffyDuck
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What does the murder of a British couple in Tenerife have to do with Thailand, or the losing of the Thai charm?
I'd agree, though, that more and more tourists do end up oversaturating the tourist spots in Thailand (Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket, etc...) - but I also believe that this applies only to those spots that get thus flooded by tourists. There's more to Thailand than these spots, though.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 2:34 pm on Jan. 14, 2006
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Hermanolobo
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Quote: from DaffyDuck on 4:21 am on Jan. 15, 2006
What does the murder of a British couple in Tenerife have to do with Thailand, or the losing of the Thai charm?
I'd agree, though, that more and more tourists do end up oversaturating the tourist spots in Thailand (Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket, etc...) - but I also believe that this applies only to those spots that get thus flooded by tourists. There's more to Thailand than these spots, though.
By comparison that it is not just Thailand that gets problems. Tenerife for example you will now get hustled by kids and North Africans who want money for drugs or just to stay there. I have never been mugged yet in Thailand but a North African tried it on in Tenerife.
I was last in Krabi about seven years ago and thought that the boat from Ao Nang to all the small islands was a trip to Paradise. I am now told Krabi has changed a lot.
The manager of my local pub asked me if I knew somewhere to go that hadn't been spoilt by tourism (he had already been to Cuba).
I found it very difficult to come up with a suggestion and I have worked in and around the holiday business for 35 years.
I suppose the whole process is inevitable but the much maligned 'Stickman' has been talking a lot recently about 'Safety' in Thailand and a place that is losing its 'Sanook' which is a shame. Pattaya is going through the same process as the Costa del Sol and attracting the same 'type' of clientele.
Back in 1978 I visited Merida in the Yucatan Peninsula (I didn't go to Cancun I went for the pyramids etc).
Merida was a wonderful town with a real colonial feel to it. I am told now I would not recognise it.
As I said before 'inevitable' but the danger and violence may not be ? Apparently Barcelona is a mugger's paradise. That would not have happened in Franco's day.
http://bkkx.com/cgi-bin/forum/topic.cgi?forum=23&topic=688&start=0
http://bkkx.com/cgi-bin/forum/topic.cgi?forum=23&topic=679&start=0
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 2:24 am on Jan. 16, 2006
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MickTheKick
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Is everything going downhill ? Everywhere ? In any respect ? I hear that to often to believe in this...
If the kingdom would be much nicer without tourists, we couldn't enjoy it anyway because *we would not be here*. And I doubt the Thai people would prefer this clean, nice, poor country... Yes, I know, their economy is not only... blah blah... But it's all the same thing: Tourism and Industrialization are part of the same thing: History
Our world is changing, developing and this process is unstoppable. It is not necessarily for the better and not necessarily for the worse...
Maybe it's nothing else than the mercy of the human memory which tends to soften things on the long range and strip off all those bad odds and ends of the good times we had...
I met those 2 young lads in a SC bar the other night. They were great guys and able to make the very best out of all this and they had the time of their life... I'm sure they will call this "the good old days" in some years...
When I was young I believed that *everything* is going to be better and better, politically ye know, the sixties... Then I learned that this is not true. I don't want to make the same naive mistake vice versa...
Know what I mean ?
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 3:22 am on Jan. 16, 2006
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