drogon Posted March 20, 2009 Report Share Posted March 20, 2009 Is the TAT out of its mind??? Until now the Chinese tourists I met in BKK (easily distinguishable from the "Thai Chinese") are not people I wish to meet again... They behave in the same way newly arrived Chinese migrants do here in Spain... I am sure that if I ever have to stay in an hotel next to some Chinese package tour guests -> I will not come back to this hotel. As well as avoid hotels with a majority of Indian, middle eastern guests, not because I am racist but because people coming from these cultures tend to piss me off. And I suspect LOS will not become much more wealthy if they focus on Chinese tourists...spending power is still not the same as westerners (despite what Beijing would like to think) Anyway, to my knowledge the Chinese middle class (the Chinese who have the spending power to travel abroad) are more afraid of the current ongoing crisis effects in China. Any board members experience with other Chinese tourists in LOS? http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/aviation/13611/chinese-skip-songkran ------------------------------------------------- Chinese skip Songkran Festival charters from China may fall 50% By: CHADAMAS CHINMANEEVONG Published: 19/03/2009 at 12:00 AM Newspaper section: Business Chartered flights by Chinese tourists during the Songkran festival are expected to be halved from around 80 last year, according to the Thai-Chinese Tourism Alliance Association. "Chinese tourists are not confident toward Thai politics after red-clad demonstrators came out to protest many times and with the ongoing phone-ins by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra," said president Sidivachr Cheewarattanaporn.Although the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is offering a prize of 100,000 baht to tour companies that can successfully bring in Chinese tourists on chartered flights during the Songkran and May Day festivals, this may be not enough to attract them because they are still concerned about political problems. Mr Sidivachr said the association expected around 40 chartered flights would fly to Thailand for the coming festivals, compared to 80 last year. China is a key market being counted on to revive Thai tourism as the United States and European markets are very weak. Unfortunately, Thailand is facing both local political uncertainties and the global economic crisis. To renew the confidence of Chinese tourists, Mr Sidivachr said, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva should go to China not only to promote tourism but also investment. The association and some tour operators plan to organise a roadshow in China sometime in May. Mr Sidivachr said the association expected total Chinese tourist arrivals to Thailand would be 800,000 this year, up from 700,000 last year. But during Chinese New Year, the number of Chinese tourists totalled 50,000, compared with 150,000 to 200,000 in normal times, he noted. "It's not easy to enter the Chinese market because there is high competition right now. Our package prices are around 3,000 to 4,000 yuan (15,750 to 21,000 baht), which are equal to tour package prices to Japan. So, most Chinese are shifting to travel to Japan," he said. The association suggested that local tour operators promote Thailand in emerging affluent Chinese cities with high potential such as Nanjing and other industrial cities. However, Mr Sidivachr hopes that Chinese inbound tourism will gradually pick up in the second half of this year after economic problems ease as many analysts expect and the confidence of Chinese tourists is restored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted March 20, 2009 Report Share Posted March 20, 2009 I see the Chinese tourists on the plane coming to LOS and they are rude, unruly, childish, ignorant... The plane's wheels haven't hit the runway and they are jumping out of their seats, opening the overheads, pulling out their *** massive *** carry-ons, drunk (maybe like the rest of us In any event, I avoid them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalo_bill Posted March 20, 2009 Report Share Posted March 20, 2009 You should travel through interior parts of China and stay in a couple of ** or *** - places . you will then start loving China tourists abroad . No point in complaining , different lifestyle , they behave like they are used to . Pain in the arse of course . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drogon Posted March 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2009 Only been to a few major cities... My sister spent one year for her uni studies in a Southern province in a "small" town of only 10 million inhabitants. She wasn't shocked by the Chinese attitude but I suppose as she grew up in Africa -> Chine is not worst. Different country, very different culture, just hope I am not forced to be in LOS with hundreds of thousands of them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dashiling Posted March 20, 2009 Report Share Posted March 20, 2009 That is just great. Let the TAT encourage Mainlanders to come on out to the land of "smiles". Now, i like Chinese folks, but they are rude, borish, loud, spitting, smoking, with absolutely no use for all those quaint Thai customs. It'll take the heat off us farangs for sure. I suppose they are thinking the chinks will be polite and quiet like the Japanese. That won't last long! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatRai Posted March 20, 2009 Report Share Posted March 20, 2009 Is the TAT out of its mind??? Until now the Chinese tourists I met in BKK (easily distinguishable from the "Thai Chinese") are not people I wish to meet again... They behave in the same way newly arrived Chinese migrants do here in Spain... I am sure that if I ever have to stay in an hotel next to some Chinese package tour guests -> I will not come back to this hotel. As well as avoid hotels with a majority of Indian, middle eastern guests, not because I am racist but because people coming from these cultures tend to piss me off. And I suspect LOS will not become much more wealthy if they focus on Chinese tourists...spending power is still not the same as westerners (despite what Beijing would like to think) Anyway, to my knowledge the Chinese middle class (the Chinese who have the spending power to travel abroad) are more afraid of the current ongoing crisis effects in China. Any board members experience with other Chinese tourists in LOS?... Haha!! Relax bro. However, I am afraid that more and more Chinese, Indians and other people you don't like will be travelling to LOS in the next years. TAT is actively promoting LOS in a few cities in India. B.t.w.: I myself belong to the people that "piss you off". But don't worry: I always stay in a hotel that has primarily Asian guests, far from your hotel, so I won't bother you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ckrisg Posted March 20, 2009 Report Share Posted March 20, 2009 Is the TAT out of its mind??? Until now the Chinese tourists I met in BKK (easily distinguishable from the "Thai Chinese") are not people I wish to meet again... They behave in the same way newly arrived Chinese migrants do here in Spain... I am sure that if I ever have to stay in an hotel next to some Chinese package tour guests -> I will not come back to this hotel. As well as avoid hotels with a majority of Indian' date=' middle eastern guests, not because I am racist but because people coming from these cultures tend to piss me off. And I suspect LOS will not become much more wealthy if they focus on Chinese tourists...spending power is still not the same as westerners (despite what Beijing would like to think) Anyway, to my knowledge the Chinese middle class (the Chinese who have the spending power to travel abroad) are more afraid of the current ongoing crisis effects in China. Any board members experience with other Chinese tourists in LOS?... [/quote'] Haha!! Relax bro. However, I am afraid that more and more Chinese, Indians and other people you don't like will be travelling to LOS in the next years. TAT is actively promoting LOS in a few cities in India. B.t.w.: I myself belong to the people that "piss you off". But don't worry: I always stay in a hotel that has primarily Asian guests, far from your hotel, so I won't bother you. But its OK Satrai he does'nt like you but at least he's not racist, I bet some of his closest friends are black. Drogon, Thailand is not your country although your views have no place anywhere! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted March 20, 2009 Report Share Posted March 20, 2009 Drogon, Thailand is not your country although your views have no place anywhere! His views have no place anywhere? Really? Since when? Maybe my views also have no place anywhere: My views are that Chinese people are ignorant, racist, ugly, foul mouthed, disgusting, killers of the worlds wild life and if there was a lot less of them the world would be a better place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 Well, I am a racist I suppose, so fuck it all...what everyone here is bitching about when it comes to the Chinese in Thailand, is pretty much everyday life here in San Francisco...just figuere they brought their complete lack of manners and common courtesy here with them, and demand we follow it, as after all, we should be "tolerant." The idea of not waiting their turn, pushing their way ahead of you, rude, spitting on your feet, not waiting on you in their shop or restaurant, can't drive worth shit etc...oh, just try working with or for some of these guys as well, they act like this is still China and they own your ass...never mind that they are 100 times more racist than we are, these people eat/oppress their own far worse than the white man ever has...no common decency at all among them on the whole... Funny note, a dear friend of mine is from Nepal, where she worked in a Government hand craft shop. She said when a bus load of these fucks would arrive, the prices tripled. Why? because these little fuckers need to bargain you down 50% on everything, then gloat about it like they somehow got over/oppressed you. They never realized they had been had for 50% more...I see this shit daily, and frankly, it pisses me off. Oh, and then, there are the Nationalists...you know, the guys who left China because it sucked so bad, came here made money stepping on their own and others, then say they want Tibet, Hong Kong, and Taiwan and maybe the world all reunified with Mainland China "...oh reunify the HOMELAND, good for China, good for China..." then when you ask if they are so fucking loyal to an oppressive evil communist regime, didn't they stay there? you get called every name in the book...but hey, I'm just a racist, ALL us white men are. Oh, BTW, now we have plane loads of these fucks coming here to buy up our land, never mind they have no legal right to live here, and go back to China, we just sell them our country and our future etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 Reminds me of a Chinese immigrant to the US who was interviewed when the UK handed over Hong Kong to the PRC. The guy was actually gloating, making fun of Prince Charles's tears etc. Yet if you read the interview, you discovered the SOB had fled from the Communists and been given refuge in HK by the Brits, who made it possible for him eventually to come to the US. The guy deserved a swift kick in the butt. As to PRC tourists to Thailand, hotels usually keep them separate. There will be a wing of the hotel where they can make as much noise as they want and be as rude to each other as they want. You almost won't know they are there - unless you encounter them in the lift and they shove you out to make room for their friends. I was surprised to hear my students making fun of Chinese tourists. I told them, "But your family is Chinese." They glared back at me: "We are THAI-Chinese." Oh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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