Comments on: PM hits out at scam brokers

By: Ballogie

Ballogie — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:57:20 +0000

I could double the tourist spend overnight if I was in charge. Thailand is missing a big trick – but it is Thailand’s loss – not the tourist. We will just go somewhere else. What is it that the idiots at the top don’t understand?

Thailand has an AMAZING potential that is being wrecked by greed and corruption.

By: Jim, Bangkok

Jim, Bangkok — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:36:58 +0000

Travel is too important to the GDP of Thailand for this ‘pass the blame’ mentality. Scams are a blemish on the travel record that affects perception abroad, as the stories are carried home and posted online. While I appreciate the Prime Minister visiting Suvarnabhumi in late August, why did it take two months from the first reporting, subsequent building up to BBC and other media, and finally TRAVEL WARNINGS from various countries before Thailand acted? Still “ACTS” is questionable since nothing has changed at the airport: same police, same King Power staff, same old battered taxis lining up for tourists at arrivals. In fact, the officials involved profess innocence and continue to blame the tourists – um – shoplifters.

How about a new law making the international airport off limits to ordinary cops? Appointing an independent tourist liason?

Regardless of reality, it is always going to be a case of one word against another in the press. In this case, Western or Asian travelers/officials from a more developed nation vs Thai Officials from a lesser developed nation. The Tribal Leader in Mozambique may be respected there, but his country’s perceived image is going to lesson his credibility on the world stage. Ditto a Cambridge IT Professor vs a Thai Police General who did not graduate college, who admits he has NO EVIDENCE OF THEFT to try the Professor in a court of law but can’t reimburse even the police ‘fees’ charged. It’s a mess. At the least, apologize, and get the Police to reimburse the expenses. Period. –aa

By: Eliot T. Stearns

Eliot T. Stearns — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:19:55 +0000

Until we see some jail time for the people who have been running all of these scams, I am afraid Mr. Abhisit is a hollow man.

By: charubun pananon

charubun pananon — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:57:09 +0000

All people in the travel industry and everyone who uses airports in our country should keep watching and investigating all the functions and if there are errors that need to be solved by organisations concerned, we must inform the Prime Minister because when time passes by the problems may return again and we need to ensure that airports in Thailand are clear and clean places from now on not only after several days, several weeks or several months when the Prime Minister come to investigate it

By: K. Singh

K. Singh — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:00:09 +0000

Please also do some investigation and check with the Indian Embassy as to the same scam against Indian tourists….they far out number the above mentioned nationalities combined, and it started way earlier with them, since last year.