Interesting statistics.

[JamesE]

https://www.tatnews.org/

Samui+ seems to be a big hit.

[Rain]

Samui was a bigger hit some 60-65 years ago. 

If you know what I mean. 

[HappyExpat]

From this TAT website, advertising like this is a good thing?

 

[Bob20]

Does anyone wonder whether they are -net- left with any profit?

All the preparations, officials doing the extra work and stats, extra police, tests, lab work, hospital expenses for the infected (Thailand accepted to pay those as part of the safety-guarantee, right?) etc. etc.

Income is mainly for a few foreign airlines and larger hotels.

It must be an absolute "negative profit situation" for the government, with spun PR to make it look better than it is.

[MrStretch]

Can you believe any rubbish the TAT says about the 'success' of any of their "come while we have Covid" programs?

How successful is this going to be now that the UK has listed Thailand as a "red" country, due to their 20,000 daily cases and hundreds of dead every day? Both numbers are probably understatements, IMO.

TAT, more and more, sounds like Thailand Ass Toots.

[gummy]

1 minute ago, MrStretch said:

Can you believe any rubbish the TAT says about the 'success' of any of their "come while we have Covid" programs?

How successful is this going to be now that the UK has listed Thailand as a "red" country, due to their 20,000 daily cases and hundreds of dead every day? Both numbers are probably understatements, IMO.

TAT, more and more, sounds like Thailand Ass Toots.

Well if the EU and US follow suit, then TAT can kiss even their wet dreams good bye.

[JamesE]

41 minutes ago, gummy said:

Well if the EU and US follow suit, then TAT can kiss even their wet dreams good bye.

The US can't follow suit. Freedom of movement is one of those pesky constitutional guarantees for us. I could go to N. Korea if I wanted to. The State Department can issue warnings, as it has done with Thailand, but we're allowed - nay, encouraged - to tell them to bugger off and get on a plane.

[gummy]

3 minutes ago, JamesE said:

The US can't follow suit. Freedom of movement is one of those pesky constitutional guarantees for us. I could go to N. Korea if I wanted to. The State Department can issue warnings, as it has done with Thailand, but we're allowed - nay, encouraged - to tell them to bugger off and get on a plane.

Not arguing with you but you raise an interesting point as to why US residents were banned from Cuba then  as stated in this article

https://insightcuba.com/about-us/cuba-travel-history

[JamesE]

4 minutes ago, gummy said:

Not arguing with you but you raise an interesting point as to why US residents were banned from Cuba then  as stated in this article

https://insightcuba.com/about-us/cuba-travel-history

This /\ /\ /\ is a can of worms. We weren't banned from traveling to Cuba, but we were prohibited from spending money there. The assumption was that if you went, you spent, and the penalty was a civil penalty, not criminal, so the onus was on you to prove you didn't spend any money. People who wanted to go to Cuba would go to the Bahamas, Haiti, or the Dominican Republic, make their ways to Havana, have their passport looked at - but not stamped - and enjoy their stays. Then reverse that on the way out. You say Bahamas, your passport says Bahamas. Done.

[Rain]

6 hours ago, gummy said:

Well if the EU and US follow suit, then TAT can kiss even their wet dreams good bye.

Yet, there's always the Chinese and Russians to lean on. 

Don't need those other folks that think red and whatnot.

[shanghailoz]

5 minutes ago, Rain said:

Yet, there's always the Chinese and Russians to lean on. 

Don't need those other folks that think red and whatnot.

The Chinese aren't coming.  

They're not allowed to travel at the moment unless its for business or other urgent matters.  Definitely no tourism to Thailand on the agenda at the present time.

Russian's are probably the only hope at the moment.