Chinese overwhelm Thai tourist infrastucture

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21 December 2017
The kingdom of golden temples, white-sand beaches and smiling hosts is also a land of overcrowded airports, epic traffic jams and littered seashores.

Facing a deluge of Chinese tourists that has strained its airports beyond capacity, the Southeast Asian nation is spending billions to upgrade its infrastructure, open up new islands and cities to travellers, and tone down its image of cheap shopping, hotels and sex that underpinned the industry for half a century. But the change will take years and even then may fail to keep up with soaring visitor numbers that have given the Land of Smiles a reputation for delays, overcrowding and government crackdowns.

"Our strategy was more for less, not less for more, so we invited a lot of tourists from China," said Suvit Maesincee, in an interview last month, when he was the minister attached to the Prime Minister's office. "I think in the near future we need to change from volume to value."

The number of Chinese visitors to Thailand has tripled in the past five years, to 8.8 million in 2016. They account for more than a quarter of all foreign tourists and 28% of revenue, according to official data...
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Fifty Chinese opening tour businesses found with fake Thai ID since 2015
22 June 2018
Thai media reported that crime buster Maj Gen Surachet “Big Joke” Hakpal had arrested two more Chinese nationals caught with fake Thai ID running tour businesses in Thailand.

The Maj-Gen said this brought to 50 cases of those caught in similar schemes as he promised to go after the corrupt Thai officials who aid and abet in the crime of providing Thai nationality to foreigners.

In the first of the latest arrests a woman called Nongluck, a Haw Chinese, was arrested in Bang Khen in Bangkok on Wednesday. She originally entered Thailand through Phopphra in Tak province then was assimilated into a Thai family to make a fake ID card and nationality.

She opened a business in 1995 that has catered to Chinese tour groups falling into the “zero dollar” category whereby goods and services of Thais are not used and even guides are hired illegally from China.

She has been charged with presenting fake documents and other offences while Maj-Gen Surachet has promised to go after the Thai officials who helped her.

In the other case Aphu, 43, was arrested in Mae Sot. She was operating a taxi business in Tak and had got fake Thai ID with the help of a Thai official who has already been jailed for six years.

Both suspects deny the charges against them and DNA is being used to prove the cases.

Surachet said this brought to fifty cases of a similar nature discovered in the last three years.
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About three years ago Mrs Stroppy and I visited Temple Town as tourists, with workmates from Australia. We were at Angkor Wat for sunrise and all was cool, until the Chinese tour buses arrived. I had yet to find a word to describe how the tourism industry coped with the volume of Chinese tourists and all of their stereotyped bad behaviour. The industry was quite simply overwhelmed.
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CEOCambodiaNews wrote: Sun Jun 24, 2018 6:22 pm Maj-Gen Surachet has promised to go after the Thai officials who helped her.
Which means they failed to pay him his cut and now he will want a bigger one.
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didn't they build special toilets for them at angkor wat?
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frank lee bent wrote: Tue Oct 02, 2018 12:00 am didn't they build special toilets for them at angkor wat?
The White Temple at Chiang Rai had special toilets built for the PRC Chinese because they had trashed the main ones.

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Here we go again :facepalm:
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"Our strategy was more for less, not less for more, so we invited a lot of tourists from China," said Suvit Maesincee, in an interview last month, when he was the minister attached to the Prime Minister's office. "I think in the near future we need to change from volume to value."
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i am glad he rebuilt the white temple after the EQ.
that Kwan Yin towering over the town is something to see, too.
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time for Thailand to take some tips from the Chinese rap game

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