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Originally Posted by LivinLOS
How will Thailand react to a more demanding tourist ?? They seem frustrated enough with the ones they have, how will they feel when they need to provide more service to compete ? Thais dont seem very good at improvement without guidance (sounds horribly patronizing.. But Thais dont seem to innovate alone much is perhaps better).. How will they feel when theres a decreasing amount of farang money instead of increasing ?? Will the frustrations and xenophobia get better to make it more inviting or worse as they get pissed off (low season robbery and violence in transient tourist economy springs to mind)..
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I think we are seeing this a little bit now. As foreign money is more reluctant to enter the Thai economy, the thai economy is starting to crawl. Seems this is making them bitter about the foreign influence and they continue the trend of walling off.
I read an article that the international community is absolutly fed up with the temporary government. So much so they are willing to give everything from the past year a free pass in the hopes that a new government gets in and moves things forward.
But as you point out it could be too late as the party could already be over. In that case I think they will wall-up even more.