Thailand "Most Dangerous Tourist Destination"

YouTube · Post by **General Mackevili** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 10:56 pm

Secret Squirrel wrote: Whoever wrote this clearly has not been to South America.

Exactly. Thailand would have to get a whole lot worse to be on my "dangerous destination" list.

I'm probably more likely to get into a bad situation there, but it's based on my activities that I'm more likely to get up to than if I was in another country. But if I got into the same shit elsewhere that I get into in Thailand it would be just as dangerous.

Francis · Post by **Francis** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 11:08 pm

Spoiler:

Jacket · Post by **Jacket** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 5:44 am

I'd still rather go there than let's say, Jamaica or Honduras or even parts of Brazil or the USA. I recon that you're more likely to get mugged 'n' shit in Detroit or the Bronx than in Bangkok. (Note: I've never actually been to the states, so this is just the impression that I've gotten from the general reputation that these places have.)

But then again, let's be real here. It's all fear-mongering anyway. Fear sells and when you tell people that they should be afraid to go to certain places, they're going to want to read up on the topic and buy your stupid book.

frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 6:42 am

More Australians die in Thailand than any other foreign country. It is also the most popular OS destination- or was.

Secret Squirrel · Post by **Secret Squirrel** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:57 pm

frank lee bent wrote:More Australians die in Thailand than any other foreign country. It is also the most popular OS destination- or was.

This may indeed be true but you have to analyse the demographic of visitors, cause of death and volume of visitors.
Many visitors are retirees and some are far from athletic.
I suspect heart attacks and liver failure is quite high on the causes list.
How many of them met their death in a violent manner which could be attributed to the Thais. Very few I suspect.
If you die from old age, natural causes or self abuse the location of your demise is not relevant and does not qualify it as a dangerous place.
To be cliched many died 'doing what/who they loved'.

myfriendme · Post by **myfriendme** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:03 am

This is fearmongering, crime happens anywhere and Thailand gets so many tourists that bad things will always happen to a few.

YouTube · Post by **General Mackevili** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:20 am

frank lee bent wrote:More Australians die in Thailand than any other foreign country. It is also the most popular OS destination- or was.

I think it is mainly because of what these people get up to while they're there.

If 1000 tourists with plans to Rio, Brazil to stay at a resort to do a yoga retreat and 1000 tourists go to Pattaya with plans to bang as many hookers and lady boys as they can while mixing all sorts of drugs with alcohol, I can tell you which country will end up with more dead foreigners.

More people go to Thailand to do risky shit than they would normally do in other tourist destinations.

I think that's a huge factor here that's hard to fit in with statistics.

So yes, I'm not the least bit surprised more Australian tourists die in Thailand compared to anywhere else, but it's BECAUSE of the situations they put themselves in there.

wackyjacky · Post by **wackyjacky** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 8:41 am

An unwarranted disparaging attack on the drugs, hookers & ladyboys of Rio unworthy of you GM

I don't know about the LBs, but the other 2 are top notch.

Mr Curious · Post by **Mr Curious** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 9:02 am

LTO wrote:
General Mackevili wrote:Thailand has become one of the most dangerous tourist destinations on earth, according to a new book...
Always has been, along with most of south and southeast Asia. Westerners just didn't perceive it as such due to a combination of ignorance and the desire for it not to be so. The whole region was/is Shangri-la country in the traveler psyche. Now information flows more freely and Thailand is falling into political disfavor for reasons having largely to do with changing western sensibilities, (i.e. sex, crime and coups that nobody would have cared about 10 years ago.) So now Westerners want to see Thailand as bad, and thus it "becomes" dangerous for being what it has always been.

I'd be fine with these types not coming. They're the ones that cause the rise in expectations/prices. Of course the idiot kids on a long exotic drug binge won't stop because of this. But one thing at a time.

dron · Post by **dron** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 10:31 pm

I wonder how many foreigners are hurt in auto accidents in Thailand every year? The country is a world leader in crashes. In just a few months there I read regular reports of foreigners getting in bus, taxi and motorbike accidents.

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