News Forum - Thailand sees slump during peak travel period, Chinese stay home for Golden Week

[Thaiger]

One of Thailand’s peak travel periods, with an influx of Chinese visitors, looks like it will be quiet for another year.  The 7-day holiday in China, known as Golden Week, which starts today, used to draw in hundreds of thousands of Chinese tourists, many flocking to Pattaya’s Sohotown and crowding shopping centres, floating markets, and restaurants catering to the holiday, according to South China Morning Post. Now businesses that used to rely on Chinese tourists are struggling. South China Morning Post spoke with an owner of one of the last shops still open in the area. They said Golden Week […]

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[Bob20]

New title:

Water is wet.

[gummy]

2 minutes ago, Bob20 said:

New title:

Water is wet.

But not as "wet" as the people who write these articles

[AlexPTY]

they want Chinese tourists, but bashing Chinese vaccines which where donated to Thailand and saved millions of lives in the world. What a bunch of....

[Bob20]

5 minutes ago, AlexPTY said:

they want Chinese tourists, but bashing Chinese vaccines which where donated to Thailand and saved millions of lives in the world.

What a bunch of....

Here I have to disagree with you for once

Thailand have paid top-dollar for the least effective vaccine of all... So whatever is now "donated" has in reality been more than paid for already and is still of inferior quality giving poor protection.

But I agree again with your last sentence

[Paco]

And they expected them? 

[9S_]

What do the Chinese know that we don’t know?? Their country has a high vaccination rate yet they’re not reopening borders why??

Since theyre there their labs should know more about the virus than we do

[DoUKnowWhoIAm]

The Chinese won't dare travel to Thailand since people here are only vaccinated with Sinovac

[NCC1701A]

1 hour ago, AlexPTY said:

they want Chinese tourists, but bashing Chinese vaccines which where donated to Thailand and saved millions of lives in the world. What a bunch of....

don't you mean murdered millions of people?

[Griff1315]

What is common knowledge can hardly be classified as news. We all know that nobody's coming so what's the point of the story.

ahh click bait works well.

[Soidog]

1 hour ago, 9S_ said:

What do the Chinese know that we don’t know?? Their country has a high vaccination rate yet they’re not reopening borders why??

I guess you could ask what’s in it for them. Why let 1 million people leave and spend their Yuan overseas? If they allow their people out to travel, then they may as well open the country to everyone. As you rightly say, vaccination levels are high at around 80%. I can only assume they are being ultra cautious and waiting for the rest of the world to catch up? I would also think that if you are on important business there are ways around it? Trips to Afghanistan to do new  mining deals with the Taliban will be allowed ! 

[Griff1315]

2 hours ago, 9S_ said:

What do the Chinese know that we don’t know??

Surly that was the question for late 2019 early 2020....

[Jason]

Yes the CCP seems very reluctant to let the Chinese People travel to Thailand. That's purely because Thailand has the Delta Variant. China has had some reinfection with Delta and the CCP are desperate to keep Delta out of China. The CCP won't be letting the Chinese People travel anywhere right now, or for any other reason that business. Just imagine what a large scale outbreak of Delta would do in a population vaccinated with a lower grade vaccine..... Better for Thailand to seek European, US and Oceanic nations who are fully vaccinated with higher quality vaccines.

[Griff1315]

1 minute ago, Jason said:

Yes the CCP seems very reluctant to let the Chinese People travel to Thailand. That's purely because Thailand has the Delta Variant. China has had some reinfection with Delta and the CCP are desperate to keep Delta out of China. The CCP won't be letting the Chinese People travel anywhere right now, or for any other reason that business. Just imagine what a large scale outbreak of Delta would do in a population vaccinated with a lower grade vaccine..... Better for Thailand to seek European, US and Oceanic nations who are fully vaccinated with higher quality vaccines.

You mean mainly the countries that have Thailand listed as a Red Zone not safe to travel. 

Totally agree with you on China they don't want our dirty virus hitting their mainly Sinovac treated citizens. 

[KaptainRob]

1 hour ago, Soidog said:

I guess you could ask what’s in it for them. Why let 1 million people leave and spend their Yuan overseas? If they allow their people out to travel, then they may as well open the country to everyone.

Not far from the truth IMO.

We've had 2 large Cn family groups move into rental properties near us in the past week.  Was strange because both large homes had been empty for a year or more.  Other have finally arrived to take up residence in new mega-mansions that were completed long ago.  So there's a drip-feed of Cn arrivals/long stayers, not tourists though TAT will count them as such.

[Soidog]

3 minutes ago, KaptainRob said:

So there's a drip-feed of Cn arrivals/long stayers, not tourists though TAT will count them as such.

Yes I saw the report in the BKK post today on arrivals in to the Sandbox. It seems around 61% moved on to other destinations. That seems to suggest at least half the arrivals were long term stayers and not tourists. Also nearly 7,500 were Thais and so either remained or perhaps visited family in Phuket? It still suggest a reasonable number we’re people who came for 7-14 days and left, although a number could be expats returning to Phuket who live there or decided to remain there.???

[EdwardV]

4 hours ago, Thaiger said:

Now businesses that used to rely on Chinese tourists are struggling.

That’s probably going to be the case for quite some time to come. The CW is the avenge Chinese tourist isn’t going to be allowed to travel internationally again until November of 2022. The Chinese government even stopped issuing passport renewals months ago. 

[Poolie]

7 minutes ago, EdwardV said:

That’s probably going to be the case for quite some time to come. The CW is the avenge Chinese tourist isn’t going to be allowed to travel internationally again until November of 2022. The Chinese government even stopped issuing passport renewals months ago. 

The Chinese can travel, they have to do a three week stay-at-home incorporating two weeks in a hotel at their cost on return. Flights are also a problem or lack of. Most decide not to it seems.

Passports aren't an issue either.

[BIGGLES]

I don't really know why this is a story.

We all know, that the Chinese government is not allowing its nationals to travel!

As for their vaccine, totally useless against Delta,  ( prevalent strain).

As tourists,  forget  about them for at least 12/24 months. Even when they are here, they don't spend unless its organised groups.

[Poolie]

1 hour ago, BIGGLES said:

I don't really know why this is a story.

We all know, that the Chinese government is not allowing its nationals to travel!

As for their vaccine, totally useless against Delta,  ( prevalent strain).

As tourists,  forget  about them for at least 12/24 months. Even when they are here, they don't spend unless its organised groups.

Yes mate, if you say so.

[JamesE]

9 hours ago, Bob20 said:

New title:

Water is wet.

If this is from TAT I would have my doubts.

[BIGGLES]

2 hours ago, Poolie said:

Yes mate, if you say so.

I do my friend.

[HiuMak]

15 hours ago, BIGGLES said:

I don't really know why this is a story.

We all know, that the Chinese government is not allowing its nationals to travel!

As for their vaccine, totally useless against Delta,  ( prevalent strain).

As tourists,  forget  about them for at least 12/24 months. Even when they are here, they don't spend unless its organised groups.

It already started in GuangZhou for incoming.

[Jason]

The Chinese won't be coming....that's self evident. So it would be wise to shift focus to those escaping the northern winter and those from low risk countries.

[Jason]

Why they aren't coming could be put down to the vaccines they have received and the Delta Virus being the predominant strain in Thailand.