“It will take several years for tourism numbers to recover” – BoT

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   rinky stingpiece

   Monday, July 20, 2020 at 3:35 pm

   interesting infographics…

   Thailand’s march upwards in tourism over the last 20 years (particularly Chinese and Russian over recent years) looks like taking a serious correction back to the post Asian financial crisis times, when you could get 60-70 baht for a pound… of course that won’t happen until after the UK is cut loose from the EU and makes some trade deals with significant non-EU economies like Japan and USA.

   all of this coincides with huge personal debt in Thailand and huge corporate debt globally, and a glut of unsellable condominiums and unrentable villas on the market.

   Thailand 4.0 can’t come soon enough for them… I hope Thailand makes an TFA with the UK so there can be some capacity building and an easier time for the significant numbers of Brits in Thailand. Thailand’s first treaty with the UK was back in the 1800s… there’s a decent amount of history between the two countries.

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   Toby Andrews

   Monday, July 20, 2020 at 4:40 pm

   Yes there is a decent amount of history.
   The Thais sided with the Japanese when the British were losing, and after they saw which way the wind was blowing, and after the Allies bombed Bangkok a few times, the Thais treacherously slipped back on the British side keeping it secret from the Japanese.

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     rinky stingpiece

     Monday, July 20, 2020 at 11:46 pm

     So why stay?

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     rinky stingpiece

     Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at 3:25 am

     The Thais sided with the Japanese when the Japanese effectively invaded Thailand to pass through it, and Phibun had no choice but to accept Finlandisation, it wasn’t to do with Britain. Are you going to smear all the countries who were occupied by Axis powers as “treacherous”, or pragmatic?

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       Toby Andrews

       Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at 11:53 am

       Thailand did a deal with the Japanese to aid them, and Thailand invaded Burma.
       The paid a penalty to Britain at the end of the war of goods and rice for this.
       I ma not going to smear all countries occupied by the axis, just Thailand.

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   payutpai

   Monday, July 20, 2020 at 6:28 pm

   i won’t believe numbers anounced by a military dictatorship who did nothing in 6 years exept money extorsion for their own profit, it’s easy to anounce 40 millions tourist if you count every border cross for one extra tourist, in 2019 alone i cross thai border 5 times, many chinese come in thailand on a week end, several times in a year, all the workers from neighbour country have to come and go through the border to renew their visa, the army want to see the investor coming with their cash, so they annouce crazy numbers to make them dream…

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