Pattaya officials continue to plan what they have to say in a 10-minute video to get Chinese tourists to come back.
Deputy Mayor Poramet Ngampichet chaired an Oct. 31 meeting called to get video-script ideas from various city departments and outside tourism agencies.
Still not liking what he heard, Poramet called yet another meeting – the third on the subject – for Nov. 6.
Panicking over the steady loss of Chinese tourists, Pattaya officials said a new tourism-promotion video could keep their golden geese from flying the coop for good.
Thailand has been living on Chinese tourism for the past four years, with – at one point – mainlanders accounting for one in every three international visitors to the country.
But July’s twin boat sinkings that killed 57 Chinese in Phuket, followed by several high-profile social media scandals showing Thais taking advantage of, or abusing Chinese citizens, have put a serious dent in arrival figures.
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