News Forum - Thailand’s 5 national parks raise entry fees for foreigners by 100%

[cowslip]

42 minutes ago, longwood50 said:

And which part of raising the costs to visit Thailand is not a good way to increase tourism do you have difficulty in comprehending?  It matters little if if is 10 baht or 1,000 baht.  It matters nothing that the fee is reasonable.  It matters nothing that it might have been part of a comprehensive increase in fees over several years.  A business does not raise its prices and expect customer traffic to increase.  Pretty simple. 

Sorry I'm talking about National Parks  and dual pricing - see the heading. There hasn't been a comprehensive increase over the years - the fees have been between 200 and 400 for decades.

[longwood50]

20 hours ago, cowslip said:

Sorry I'm talking about National Parks  and dual pricing - see the heading. There hasn't been a comprehensive increase over the years - the fees have been between 200 and 400 for decades.

Yes and you fail to comprehend that whether it is dual pricing, increase in national park fees, or tourist entry fees that doing so when the tourist traffic is low is a stupid thing to do.  The fact they have not been raised in decades is not relevant.  You don't have low traffic count in your bar and then raise the cover charge to enter because it has not been raised in decades.  This is the headline doubling national park fees. 

News Forum - Thailand’s 5 national parks raise entry fees for foreigners by 100%

[cowslip]

2 hours ago, longwood50 said:

Yes and you fail to comprehend that whether it is dual pricing, increase in national park fees, or tourist entry fees that doing so when the tourist traffic is low is a stupid thing to do.  The fact they have not been raised in decades is not relevant.  You don't have low traffic count in your bar and then raise the cover charge to enter because it has not been raised in decades.  This is the headline doubling national park fees. 

News Forum - Thailand’s 5 national parks raise entry fees for foreigners by 100%

As I said - it's wrong - look at the list of prices in June I posed above. Tell me which you think have been raised by 100%

 

Edited October 12, 2022 by cowslip