bust Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 Does it really? People are talking 3-4 bahts up for the beer. While you spend money on airline and hotel, well, it might be necessary to you to be there but the beer prices are not important to at least 80% of the 20 million tourists coming to Thai. Does it really? People are talking 3-4 bahts up for the beer. While you spend money on airline and hotel, well, it might be necessary to you to be there but the beer prices are not important to at least 80% of the 20 million tourists coming to Thai. I never have the slightest clue what you are talking about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
think_too_mut Posted October 22, 2013 Report Share Posted October 22, 2013 So you don't understand Baht I did not see bahts when I first looked at the post. Edited it afterwards? I saw you doing that before. And who said that working in communist gulag in the armpits of the world is not right place for some? One who was an electrician, was led by his own greed to a 200K freelance contract in Iraq. Ended up in orange jumpsuit and 3 islamists in front of video camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plainsdrifter Posted October 22, 2013 Report Share Posted October 22, 2013 The more I hear about Vietnam, the more I like ..it. I need to consider VN more as a replacement for Chinese suppliers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plainsdrifter Posted October 22, 2013 Report Share Posted October 22, 2013 Doesn't the Thai govt know that taxing the golden goose that is farang tourists will lead to less tourist arrivals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted October 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2013 Doesn't the Thai govt know that taxing the golden goose that is farang tourists will lead to less tourist arrivals? Errrrrr, no, they don't think that far ahead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
think_too_mut Posted October 22, 2013 Report Share Posted October 22, 2013 The entire tourism industry and consumption is ~6% of Thai GDP. 14 bil US$. The tsunami of Boxing Day 2004. that devastated Phuket and tarred the whole country as risky, made NO dent in the GDP in 2005. As if it had never happened, the entire tourism almost immatterial to the economy. "Golden goose" tourists are not beer drinker but Muslims, who don't drink, and come for medical treatment. Million of them a year. Each has a companion, for them a special visa has been established, 3 months for the patient and up to 3 companions. They bring 5 bil US$ to the economy without sipping a drop of booze. Farang beer drinkers are somewhere at the level of a statistical error, who cares about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baa99 Posted October 22, 2013 Report Share Posted October 22, 2013 Muslims don't drink!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
think_too_mut Posted October 22, 2013 Report Share Posted October 22, 2013 How did that escape me? Muslims are actually the target of the beer tax! The guy above discovered that! Muslims coming to Thai to trash themselves with booze, followed by their several wives in bourkhas. That's the example of drinkers, not tatooed British hooligans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plainsdrifter Posted October 22, 2013 Report Share Posted October 22, 2013 At the risk of getting flamed, Muslims do leave their home country in order to freely drink and monger in Thailand. Not all, but many. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
think_too_mut Posted October 22, 2013 Report Share Posted October 22, 2013 "Medical Tourism" it is called, 5 bil US$ a year. Muslims coming to Thai for that are golden goose, for those expenses, not for what they might drink. Tax medical treatments or submit them to humiliating visa rules and that would be killing the goose that lays golden eggs. It all started whe someone said farang drinkers are "golden goose". They are irrelevant, if not single one came for a year the economy would not notice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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