Pattayaโ€™s Walking Street is โ€œheaving with touristsโ€. Butโ€ฆ

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Walking Street is โ€œheaving with touristsโ€. Pictures posted on the โ€œPattaya City Law Enforcementโ€ site indicate an encouraging sign for tourism in Thailandโ€™s โ€˜sin cityโ€™ seaside resort. According to the post, it appears Pattayaโ€™s famous soi of โ€˜boom boomโ€™ is having a boom in tourism numbers.

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But Thai netizens say there is a backstory.

Whilst many posters painted a positive picture as high season at the resort picks up, many Thai posters on the Facebook site asked โ€“ Where are the farangs? They noted that most of those in the pictures were Indian and Chinese, and that the few Westerners in sight were probably Russian.

Others suggested that it was not as rosy as all that โ€“ most of the tourists were just passing through and not stopping for a drink in a girlie bar or buying anything. They were just there for the selfie or just a quick โ€˜walkโ€™ along Walking Street.

โ€œThey were just tour groups on their way to be picked up at Wat Chai.โ€

Another responder on Thai Visa remarkedโ€ฆ โ€œThey walk up and downโ€ฆusually following someone with toy on the end of a stickโ€ฆthey do not spend anything in the bars/entertainment venuesโ€ฆ then back to their Chinese owned hotels.โ€

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Others claimed that where Chinese go, farangs fear to tread or donโ€™t want to tread. They brought up the animosity, imagined or real, between Westerners and Indians and Chinese. But others say that farangs were not coming because their money wasnโ€™t getting the same value as in the past in Thailand.

SOURCE: Pattaya City Law Enforcement | Thai Visa

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