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Thai tour newspaper low-cost tour group tourists spend money, but they hardly feel the real local culture and understand the essence of local customs. The tour guide worked hard, but he was under pressure from work and had to recommend to tourists at his own expense, taking tourists to catch up with the itinerary from shopping point to shopping point.

Tourists are often constantly taken to shopping stores, and there will even be forced consumption, almost the entire trip is a shopping store, and there is almost no time to take you to play. The journey was unpleasant.

Difference! In the future, you must not participate in such a group, it is recommended that if you don't want to worry too much, you must choose the best quality tour group; If your English is okay, you can have a simple daily conversation, and you can do some strategies by yourself.

Thailand has always been one of the most popular tourist destinations for Chinese tourists, attracting countless tourists with its beautiful beaches, rich culture, cheap prices, and friendly people. However, in recent years, the situation of tourism in Thailand has changed dramatically, leaving many people disappointed and dissatisfied with Zhizheng Zen.

The first is the soaring.

According to the Beijing News, "air tickets to and from key cities in Thailand and China** are now double the pre-pandemic levels, and the average cost of Chinese tourists per trip has soared from 50,000 to 10,000 baht to 60,000 or even 150,000 baht," or about 10,000 to 30,000 yuan. This means that a trip to Thailand can cost about the same amount of money as a trip to Europe, and it doesn't include other costs such as visas and insurance.

The second is the experience drop.

Due to the influx of tourists, lack of manpower, coupled with inflation and prices in Thailand**, "Thailand's consumption is about to catch up with Sanya", and the travel experience is not as good as before. Many attractions are overcrowded, with long waiting times, low service quality, and a dirty and messy environment. In some places, there has even been discrimination and extortion against Chinese tourists, which makes people feel uneasy and angry.

So, is there any need to travel to Thailand? It depends on your personal preferences and budget.

If you just want to enjoy the sun, sand and water, then there are still plenty of places to visit in Thailand, such as Phuket, Koh Samui, Krabi, etc. If you want to experience the culture and history of Thailand, there are also plenty of great things to see and do in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Ayutthaya, and more. If you're looking for something special and fresh, then you can consider some off-the-beaten-path and unexplored places like Ubon Ratchathani, Lamphun and Sukhothai.

In short, traveling in Thailand is not useless, it just requires you to be well prepared and adjust your mentality. Of course, if you feel that Thailand has lost its charm and advantages, then you can also choose other travel destinations that are more suitable for you, such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, etc.

No. It's too expensive to go now.

Actually, I've been there several times before. In the past, it was said that you could travel all over Thailand without money. Now the cost is basically 4 5 times that of the past, and even the price of the most cheap small restaurants in the past is also rising.

Cheap travel to Thailand no longer exists.

A few months ago, a friend of mine traveled there and complained after returning to the Moliang banquet

A coconut is 15 yuan, the starting price of a taxi is 40 yuan, and a pair of slippers is 45 yuan.

I took a taxi 28 times, and at least 20 times I didn't hit the meter, asking if we were Chinese.

I just went to Thailand, spent 80 yuan to buy coconuts, and later found that the scenic spot is sold for 50 in the slag, and the roadside is cheaper, only selling for 30

Thailand, which was once all the rage by relying on blind silver. Gone.

From the perspective of outbound travel routes, Southeast Asian countries led by Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and other countries are still the most popular overseas destinations for Chinese tourists. The Thai airport recently said to the outside worldAbout 10,000 Chinese tourists have visited Thailand since January 8, and the number is expected to exceed 1 million by August this year.

After a three-year absence, when a large number of tourists poured into Thailand again, they sighed

The new Malaysia is not so fun. ”

Thailand is not the Thailand of three years ago. ”

A trip to Thailand costs 3 times more than three years ago. ”

The most obvious manifestation of this is the air ticket.

At the beginning of February, there was only one direct flight from Beijing to Bangkok every day, with a ticket price of nearly 4,000 yuan, so I had to choose to transit in Xiamen, but even so, the round-trip ticket still cost 4,742 yuan.

It is understood that if you spend more than 10,000 yuan in two or three days, most of the general consumption is air tickets. Compared with the hundreds of dollars before 2020, I sighed with my friends, how dare I "just go"?

The second is housing prices.

Open the booking software, marked "** health certification" of the hotel in Bangkok, almost starting from the yuan, occasionally one or two room types showing about 300, but always in a full state.

This is still the state of a normal working day.

Hotels in Phuket are more expensive, stay there for two nights, plus hotels in Chiang Mai, ** card, visa fees, ......

Before you set off, you have to spend almost 10,000 yuan.

Daily play is also painful: 500 baht for a taxi, 600 baht for pineapple fried rice and tom yum gong, and 4,000 baht for seven or eight (1 baht is about equal to RMB, which is equivalent to about 800 yuan).

In the past, the freshly squeezed juice on the roadside cost only 10 20 baht (about 2 4 yuan), but this year it costs 60 baht (about 12 yuan), and ours.

First- and second-tier cities are about the same.

There is no advantage in Thailand tours, and I won't go, because there are a lot of cats in Thailand, and you must pay attention to the following cats

Greasy one: Some black tour guides use dirty words and force tourists to shop.

Obviously, the customer is the emperor, but there have been many cases of tour guides abusing customers in China, and forcing them to shop to a specified amount, otherwise they will not let out the door of the shopping store! In order to attract people and earn commissions, the tour guides of some low-cost groups will slander tourists with the words "If you have money and don't shop, I despise you," or even threaten to close the small black house. Some tourists spend a lot of money to buy jade jewelry, come back to identify that it is not the pure natural material that Zheng Li merchants said before buying, and when they request to return the goods, the merchants will deduct the handling fee in the name of returning the goods for tourists at a low price!

Cat greasy two: There is an age limit for low-cost groups, and an additional Zheng Ju fee needs to be paid.

For many years, there has been an unwritten rule within the tourism industry that imposes an age surcharge on seniors over 60 and teenagers under 18. This phenomenon mostly appears in low-cost groups, such as domestic tours, Hong Kong-Macao connection tours, tourism products in Southeast Asia and other places. From the perspective of travel agencies, the impaired mobility of the elderly increases the risk of travel, and children and students have no spending power, which are one of the factors that affect the cost and increase the commission income.

Cat greasy three: During the trip, there are many shouting and searching in the shopping store, and the stay time is long.

Friends who often travel with groups must be very familiar with shopping stores! For example, souvenir shops, watch shops, jade shops, and silk shops, not to mention that the quality of things is not up to par, and you will not be let out if you don't go shopping for an hour in the shopping store. Originally, I was traveling with a happy mood, but I spent a lot of time visiting attractions to go to shopping stores.

For an 8-day, 7-night island hopping tour, you can have up to 7 shopping outlets, and the stay time is between hours!

Because there are a lot of people in the tour group, it will be very cheap and more cost-effective to rate the entire fund, so many people will choose to travel with the group.

Hotels and airfares are booked in advance, and discounted airfares can save a lot of money, as well as signing contracts with local travel agencies, and they will also save a lot of money by going to tourist attractions to get internal coupons.

Because the tour guide will force consumption on the group, the bad words add up or restrict personal freedom, and the trip becomes consumption.

The strong purchasing power of the Chinese people has been exerted to the extreme in Thailand, which is also the root cause of promoting the development of local tourism. The tour guide came prepared with a mission, like a "psychologist", well versed in the way of sales, so that people unconsciously pay for it, and think it is earned.

Local travel agencies in Thailand dare to take over the Chinese tourism teams that have been brought over, and will give them to Chinese travel agencies in the form of capitation subsidies, precisely because they fancy the strong purchasing power of the Chinese. The wool is out of the sheep, and it is greedy to travel cheaply with the group, so it is not negotiable to slaughter you. Travel agencies are beginning to join forces with each other for international cooperation.

Otherwise, there is no loss-making business in this world.

The main reason why Thailand is cheap with group tours is that air tickets are cheap, food and accommodation are cheap, visas are cheap, and if you go with a group, the group price is even cheaper.

One is that domestic air tickets to Thailand are cheap. AirAsia has opened many routes in China, and the air tickets to Thailand from many southern provinces and cities often cost only two or three hundred yuan including tax, which is cheaper than taking ordinary train sleepers in most parts of the country! After arriving in Thailand, the travel agency only needs to arrange a tour bus to follow the bus throughout the journey.

Therefore, the transportation fee actually does not cost much.

The second is the problem of eating. We often see friends who travel with groups to show a big pot of crabs**, in fact, seafood is cheap in Thailand, they serve a large pot of shrimp and crabs, just like we bring a large pot of cabbage. It's just that because the seafood in our country is expensive, I feel like it's very good.

The third is the issue of accommodation. We can see that the hotels that go to Thailand with a group tour look good, but in fact, they are far away from the city and the bustling area, and the transportation is inconvenient, so ** is also relatively cheap, but the facilities in all aspects are generally relatively complete, so it is also better for tourists.

Fourth, the issue of visas. Since the accident in Phuket last year, Thailand has been giving us preferential policies in terms of visas, and so far this year, we have not collected a visa on arrival fee, which has saved more than 400 yuan for each person.

To sum up, in fact, it doesn't cost much to go to Thailand for a group stay for four or five days, and the tickets in Thailand are very cheap, so even if you don't participate in shopping stores, travel agencies are also profitable. And if you travel to Thailand, the tour guide will not force shopping, but generally when you arrive at the shopping point, the tourist will take the initiative to buy without the persuasion of the tour guide.

Because Thailand does have a lot of good quality and low price, and the quality is more guaranteed than some domestic goods, which also gives travel agencies and tour guides the opportunity to make some money.

Therefore, when it comes to traveling in Thailand, it does not mean that it must be bad with a cheap group, if you just want to see a foreign country and do not have too many travel experience requirements, and you are worried about language problems and economic problems, a group tour is also a good choice. Thailand is a country rich in tourism resources, and it is still worth visiting.

Why is it so cheap to travel to Thailand with a group?

In recent years, more and more people choose to travel to Southeast Asia, especially Thailand, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket has attracted many tourists, and it is a very popular scenic spot. Not only that, the price of going to Thailand is not expensive, some group tours are even very cheap, it can be described as the price of cabbage, why is it so cheap to go to Thailand to play with a group tour?

1. There are many self-funded projects. As the saying goes, "cheap is not good", "you get what you pay for", and there must be more traps for cheap group tours, and many projects actually go there only to find out that they are at your own expense. But because you have to have fun when you come out to play, although you need to pay for it, many tourists will still pay for it at this time.

2. Accommodation conditions and catering conditions are greatly discounted. With a group tour so cheap, travel agencies also want to make money, at this time the accommodation conditions and catering conditions are definitely not very good, including some entertainment projects that do not need to pay for themselves. There is definitely no way to stay in a high-end hotel, and there are few seafood in the so-called seafood dinner.

As for the entertainment items, like the cruise ship that had an accident in Thailand last time, it is said that the travel agency arranged a cheaper cruise ship, and the equipment is relatively old, so it is easy to have an accident.

3. There are many shopping items and shopping locations. For such a cheap group tour, the travel agency will definitely arrange a lot of shopping spots and shopping items in order to make money.

Like Thailand's latex mattresses, latex pillows, etc., many of them are very expensive three-no products, and tour guides often slaughter tourists in these places, and after such a shopping circle, the time will soon run out, and many places can not play much.

What do tour groups do to make money? You think it's by traveling? Of course not, it depends on shopping, and this principle is not only applicable to the tourism industry in China, but also to the tourism industry around the world.

The cheap tour group to Thailand has a certain relationship with the low prices in Thailand itself, but it is not the whole reason. Even if the tour group can get a relatively low airfare and hotel**, how much difference can they make from it? That money is really "insignificant" compared to the shopping rebate.

We always hear negative news about "forced shopping" by various domestic tour groups, but why is it that Thailand's tourism industry is so developed, and the tour groups are not less than those in China, but there are few reports of "forced shopping"?

This is related to the tourism consumption habits of Chinese, usually the amount of shopping consumption of Chinese tourists traveling abroad is several times that of domestic travel, and domestic travel requires tour guides to find ways to "force" shopping behavior, and when they go abroad, it becomes the tourists themselves who take the initiative to shop. If you have ever been to a foreign country with a group, or if you have seen a Chinese tour group abroad, you will deeply feel, what is "crazy"? The tour guide didn't have time to "force", and everyone basically swept away the entire store.

Think about it, when you go to Thailand, in addition to cosmetics and luxury goods, which Chinese generally have to buy when they go abroad, there are also those green herbal creams, Thai rice, latex pillows and other things that everyone has to grab, can you see such a situation in domestic travel? Therefore, even if the Thai tour group sells to you at a loss, as long as the Chinese tourists are crazy about "buying, buying, buying", they can earn it back.

The poor is the tour guide of the Chinese tour group, not to mention that he can't make any money, and because of it, he is saddled with a curse, this situation may only be improved by Chinese after they have confidence in their own domestic products, right?